Before production began, Yates invited "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" director Mike Newell to a pub and "picked his brains about what it was going to be like to step into someone's shoes on a movie of this scale". The first scene that Yates shot featured a giant interacting with human characters. The scene was the very first high-scale visual effects piece Yates filmed in his career. After the film's post-production material was well received by the studio, Yates was chosen to direct the sixth film, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", which according to Yates was going to be "a cross between the chills of "Prisoner of Azkaban" third film in the series and the fantastical adventure of "Goblet of Fire"".