So today I wanted to do a very fun movie. We have all heard about Pitch Perfect, and surely almost everyone has seen it. If you haven't, it's about a group of acapella groups in a university that compete against each other and against other groups for the major title. Well I was interested in how the idea to create a movie about acapella groups came to be. Believe it or not the movie was a low budget movie with only $17 million and because of it's huge success it made $115.4 million. The idea came up to Elizabeth Banks and her husband when they read a book proposal. It took about three years to bring the movie to different movie companies. Finally Universal Studios took on the job and decided to bring it to life.
The preparation these actors had to take was intense even though it looked easy. The actors had to go through four weeks of intense training in both dancing and singing. Keep in mind that the majority of these actors never sang or danced in their lives. They got choreographer Aakomon "AJ" Jones to do create the dance routines for the different numbers in the movies. According to Elizabeth Banks and all audiences, he did a magnificent job. He had the actors train for about ten hours a day for those four weeks. There was blisters in their feet and some even cried but overall their experience was bond and enrichment. The actors also had to take singing classes. This they called it "Acapella Bootcamp" which is the training of their voices. For example, Hanna Mae Lee had to go with a DJ in order to teach her different techniques that would allow her to beat box.
After all this hard work, the movie was finally made in a total of 31 days!!! How's that for a deadline. However, their movie became such a success that it even got a second part to it and it's working in making a third sequel to it. The second movie was an even more success than the first one and it looks that the third one is going to be the same.
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