‘The Shape of Water’ Featurettes Explore the Making of the Film

Fox Searchlight has released a handful of featurettes for ‘The Shape of Water‘ the give a great behind-the-scenes look at the film. Guillermo Del Toro’s opus was recently privy to 13 oscar nominations, and these featurettes give us an all too short look at several aspects of the making of the film. Although these featurettes do a good job of giving a glimpse into the making of the film, I hope that Fox Searchlight will give the film a proper documentary on the making of the film once it hits home video. In case you haven’t seen the film, here’s the synopsis:

Elisa is a mute, isolated woman who works as a cleaning lady in a hidden, high-security government laboratory in 1962 Baltimore. Her life changes forever when she discovers the lab’s classified secret — a mysterious, scaled creature from South America that lives in a water tank. As Elisa develops a unique bond with her new friend, she soon learns that its fate and very survival lies in the hands of a hostile government agent and a marine biologist.

Regardless if you’ve seen the film of not, these featurettes do a wonderful job of whetting our palettes until the Oscars in just a few weeks. The first of the featurettes, gives a quick behind the scenes look at the making of the film that focuses on Guillermo Del Toro’s influence on the film:

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“Shape, Form, and Light” gives a fairly decent look at Del Toro’s overall approach with ‘The Shape of Water‘:

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Up next, we have the featurette, titled “Troika”, which looks at the writing and characterization of the film:

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The next featurette, which looks the design of the creature–from inception to realization– and Doug Jones‘ performance as the fish-man:

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This next featurette focusing on “The Chamber”, gives an all too short look at  the intricate set design for the film and how it influences the characters :

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The ‘Shape of Water‘ is currently playing in theaters everywhere.