Editing I Know Where I'm Going! (section)

==Production==
===Development===
Powell and Pressburger wanted to make ''A Matter of Life and Death'' but filming was held up because they wanted to do the film in colour and there was a shortage of Technicolor film stock—it was all being used for [[Ministry of Information (United Kingdom)#Second World War|Ministry of Information]] training films.<ref>Powell (1986) p. 443</ref>

Pressburger suggested that instead they make a film that was part of the "crusade against materialism", a theme they had tackled in ''A Canterbury Tale'', only in a more accessible romantic comedy format.<ref>{{Cite book | author = Kevin Macdonald | author-link = Kevin Macdonald (director) | title = Emeric Pressburger: The Life and Death of a Screenwriter | page = 242 | year = 1994 | publisher = [[Faber and Faber]] | isbn = 978-0-571-16853-8 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/emericpressburge00macd/page/242 }}</ref>

The story was originally called ''The Misty Island''. Pressburger wanted to make a film about a girl who wants to get to an island, but by the end of the film no longer wants to. Powell suggested an island on Scotland's west coast. He and Pressburger spent several weeks researching locations and decided on the Isle of Mull.<ref>{{cite thesis |last=Wilson |first= Valerie|date= May 2001|title=The Representation of Reality and Fantasy In the Films of Powell and Pressburger: 1939–1946 |url=https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10100948/1/The_representation_of_reality_.pdf |work= |degree=PhD |location= |publisher=University of London |access-date=}}</ref>

Pressburger wrote the screenplay in four days. "It just burst out, you couldn't hold back," he said.<ref name=MacD243>MacDonald (1994) p. 243</ref>

The movie was originally meant to star [[Deborah Kerr]] and [[James Mason]] but Kerr could not get out of her contract with [[MGM]], so they cast Wendy Hiller.<ref>MacDonald (1994) p. 245</ref> Hiller was originally cast in the three roles Kerr played in ''The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp'' but had to withdraw when she became pregnant.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article59326759 |title=Ginger Rogers' Return to Musical Comedy|newspaper=[[Sunday Times (Perth)]] |issue=2442 |location=Western Australia |date=3 December 1944 |access-date=29 October 2017 |page=11 (SUPPLEMENT TO "THE SUNDAY TIMES") |via=[[National Library of Australia]]}}</ref><ref name="sight">Powell and Pressburger: the war years. Badder, David. [[Sight and Sound]]; London Vol. 48, Iss. 1, (Winter 1978): 8.</ref>

Six weeks before filming, Mason pulled out of the movie, saying he did not want to go on location. [[Roger Livesey]] read the script and asked to play the role. Powell thought he was too old and portly but Livesey lost "ten or twelve pounds" (four or five kilos) and lightened his hair; Powell was convinced.<ref>Powell (1986) p. 476</ref>

Powell's golden cocker spaniels Erik and Spangle made their third appearance in an Archers film: previously in ''[[Contraband (1940 film)|Contraband]]'' (1940) and ''[[The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp]]'' (1943), they were later also to be seen in  ''[[A Matter of Life and Death (film)|A Matter of Life and Death]]'' (1946).<ref>{{IMDb name|1521132|Erik}}, {{IMDb name|1526257|Spangle}}</ref>

Pressburger later said that when he visited [[Paramount Pictures]] in 1947 the head of the script department told him they considered the film's screenplay perfect and frequently watched it for inspiration.<ref name=MacD249>MacDonald (1994)  p. 249</ref>

===Filming===
Shooting took place on the [[Isle of Mull]] and at [[Denham Film Studios]].

It was the second and last collaboration between the co-directors and [[cinematographer]] [[Erwin Hillier]] (who shot the entire film without a [[light meter]]).<ref name="IKWIG Revisited">In the documentary ''I Know Where I'm Going Revisited'' (1994) on the Criterion DVD</ref>

The heroine of the film is trying to get to "Kiloran", but nobody ever gets there. From various topographical references and a map briefly shown in the film, it is clear that the Isle of Kiloran is based on [[Colonsay]], south of Mull. The name Kiloran was borrowed from one of Colonsay's bays, Kiloran Bay. No footage was shot on Colonsay.

One of the most complex scenes shows the small boat battling the Corryvreckan whirlpool. This was a combination of footage shot at Corryvreckan between the Hebridean islands of [[Scarba]] and [[Jura, Scotland|Jura]], and Bealach a'Choin Ghlais ([[Sound (geography)|Sound]] of the Grey Dogs) between Scarba and [[Lunga, Firth of Lorn|Lunga]].<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.whirlpool-scotland.co.uk/ | title = The Corryvreckan Whirlpool – Scotland's maelstrom | access-date=17 January 2020}}</ref>
*There are some long-distance shots looking down over the area, shot from one of the islands.
*There are some middle-distance and close-up shots that were made from a small boat with a hand-held camera.
*There were some model shots, done in the tank at the studio. These had gelatin added to the water so that it would hold its shape better and would look better when scaled up. 
*The close-up shots of the people in the boat were all done in the studio, with a boat on gimbals being rocked in all directions by some hefty studio hands while others threw buckets of water at them. These were filmed with the shots made from the boat with the hand-held camera projected behind them.
*Further trickery joined some of the long- and middle-distance shots together with those made in the tank into a single frame.<ref name=Powell480> Powell (1986) p. 480</ref>

Though much of the film was shot in the Hebrides, Livesey was not able to travel to Scotland because he was performing in a [[West End theatre|West End]] play, ''The Banbury Nose'' by [[Peter Ustinov]], at the time of filming.<ref name=MacD243/>  Thus all his scenes were shot in the studio at [[Denham Film Studios|Denham]], and a double (coached by Livesey in London) was used in all of his scenes shot in Scotland. These were then mixed so that the same scene would often have a middle-distance shot of the double and then a closeup of Livesey, or a shot of the double's back followed by a shot showing Livesey's face.<ref>Powell (1986) p. 476</ref>

The film was budgeted at [[Pound sterling|£]]200,000 ({{Inflation|UK|200000|1945|r=-5|fmt=eq|cursign=£}}) and went £30,000 over. The [[art department]] budget was £40,000, mostly spent on effects for the studio whirlpool.<ref>MacDonald (1994) p. 247</ref> The actors received £50,000, of which one third went to Hiller.

Powell shot a scene at the end of the film where Catriona follows Torquil into the castle, to emphasise her love for him, but decided to cut it.<ref name="sight"/>

===Music===
John Laurie was the choreographer and arranger for the [[cèilidh]] sequences.<ref>Powell (1986) pp. 537–538)</ref> The [[puirt à beul]] "Macaphee"<ref>[http://www.powell-pressburger.org/Reviews/45_IKWIG/Macaphee.html Macaphee song]</ref> was performed by Boyd Steven, Maxwell Kennedy and Jean Houston of the [[Glasgow Orpheus Choir]].<ref name=BFIftp>{{cite web |title=I Know Where I'm Going!; (1945) |url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6ace5f91 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160629120236/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6ace5f91 |url-status=dead |archive-date=29 June 2016 |publisher=[[British Film Institute]] |access-date=11 December 2019}}</ref> The song sung at the cèilidh that Torquil translates for Joan is a traditional [[Scottish Gaelic|Gaelic]] song "Ho ro, mo nighean donn bhòidheach", originally translated into English as "Ho ro My Nut Brown Maiden" by [[John Stuart Blackie]] in 1882. It is also played by three pipers marching toward Moy Castle at the start of the final scene.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Kennedy |first1=Howard Angus |title=Professor Blackie His Sayings and Doings |date=November 1895 |publisher=James Clark & Co |location=London |page=193}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Williams |first1=Tony |title=Structures of desire : British cinema, 1939-1955 |date=10 August 2000 |publisher=State University of New York Press |isbn=978-0-7914-4643-0 |page=71}}</ref> The film's other music is traditional Scottish and Irish songs<ref>[http://www.powell-pressburger.org/Reviews/45_IKWIG/Music.html Music in IKWIG]</ref> and original music by [[Allan Gray (composer)|Allan Gray]].<ref name=BFIftp/>