Breaking Dawn News – Soundtrack Stream
LISTEN TO THE BREAKING DAWN SOUNDTRACK STREAM NOW!
@ THE TWILIGHT SAGA FACEBOOK PAGE!
Breaking Dawn News – OST Updates!
Well well well, here’s an overall update of the Breaking Dawn OST! First up! The Belle Brigade has released a lyric video of their track ‘I Didn’t Mean It’ on Rolling Stones.
Watch the video HERE!
“We pretty much wrote the whole song in a few hours, which is a lot faster than usual. We were really excited about the song when we wrote it, and it kind of sat around for a little while until we were asked for material for Twilight. The song is about jealousy, so it works well with the whole Twilight love triangle.”
Next, is every Twilighter’s favourite – IRON & WINE! You can now listen to ‘Flightless Bird, American Mouth’ (Wedding version)! This version of the song features Marketa Irglova of The Swell Season (Yes! The duo from the indie film, ‘Once’!) as backup vocals.
Just in case you’ve not watch Christina Perri‘s ‘A Thousand Years’, watch it here! Do you guys prefer the lyric video or the official one? 
Lastly, remember to check out The TWILIGHT SAGA Facebook page to stream all the songs from Breaking Dawn (Part 1) OST! Streaming will be available from 29th October 2011, 10.30PM to 30th October 2011, 10.30PM! Yep, 24 hours for you!
Countdown to Breaking Dawn: Week 2
The lucky winner from Week 1 gets to win a surprise prize that we will be sending over to you shortly. We will be mailing to you the prize through post though this will take a while, but no worries, we will be sending the winner a notification email after we have mailed your prize to your respective address.
So the winner is….
Week 1 Winner: Geok Ling!
Answer to Week 1′s Question: Positive contains of RhD (Rhesus D) antigen, while negative does not contain RhD antigen. Mothers-to-be RhD absence and with baby contains RhD, they will be incompatible and cause danger to the baby when born!!
Congratulations, Geok Ling!
Now for the 2nd Week question… But before we do that, Twilight Singapore has made a couple of changes. When you are emailing your answer, you DO NOT have to put in your address as well. Only for those who have been notified that they have won, will later be sending us their address. Do take note of this. Thank you!
2nd Week Question: Jacob finally showed up at the Bella and Edward’s wedding reception, and as a surprise, he shared a dance with the bride. Whilst dancing, Jacob and Bella had an argument that almost hurt Bella. What were they arguing about?
Submit your answers to: twilightsingapore@gmail.com
Title of Email: “Breaking Dawn Quiz Week 2″
Deadline of Submission: 3 November at Midnight
The winner will be announced next week together with this week’s answer and the 3rd week’s question for the Breaking Dawn Quiz on the 4th November.
Good luck, everyone!
Psst Twilighters, a Breaking Dawn (Part 1) celebration coming your way!
Pssst, Twilight Singapore is in the midst of preparing a Breaking Dawn: Part 1 event for all of ya! This time, we have decided to get our fans involved by helping us to decide on the event name. The most event name with the highest votes will be the chosen one! Get clicking and vote for your favourite now! Please note that the poll will close on Sunday, 30th Oct @ 2359 hrs.
With that, Twilight Singapore will be celebrating the release of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn (Part 1) on 19th November (Saturday) 2011! In order to make this event a success, we are inviting YOU to JOIN US! Yes! It is definitely that time of the year again for all Singaporean Twilighters to come together and soak in the whole fandom experience
Wait no further! We look forward to your registrations! Simply drop us an email at twilightsingaporeexclusive@gmail.com and do remember to include the following details in your email:
- Email subject: “I’m attending the Breaking Dawn: Part 1 event!”
- Full Name
- Contact No (HP)
- Total no of attendees & their names (for group registration)
Be safe (;
Breaking Dawn News – New Pivotal Scene Clip! Bella Discovers her pregnancy : what we read & what’s in the movie
We know this scene so well!
In the book :
“How many days has it been since the wedding?” I whispered.
“Seventeen,” he answered automatically. “Bella what is it?”
I was counting again. I held up a finger, cautioning him to wait, and mouthed the numbers to myself. I’d been wrong about the days before. We’d been here longer than I thought. I started over again.
“Bella!” he whispered urgently. “I’m losing my mind over here.”
I tried to swallow. It didn’t work. So I reached into the suitcase and fumbled around until I found the little blue box of tampons again. I held them up silently.
He stared at me in confusion. “What? Are you trying to pass this illness off as PMS?”
“No,” I managed to choke out. “No, Edward. I am trying to tell you that my period is five days late.”
His facial expression didn’t change. It was like I hadn’t spoken.
“I don’t think have food poisoning,” I added.
He didn’t respond. He had turned into a sculpture.
“The dreams,” I mumbled to myself in a flat voice.
“Sleeping so much. The crying. All that food. Oh. Oh. Oh.”
Edward’s stare seemed glassy, as if he couldn’t see me anymore.
Reflexively, almost involuntarily, my hand dropped to my stomach.
“Oh!” I squeaked again.
I lurched to my feet, slipping out if Edward’s unmoving hands. I’d never changed out of the little silk shorts and camisole I’d worn to bed. I yanked the blue fabric out of the way and stared at my stomach.
“Impossible,” I whispered
Chapter 7: Unexpected, Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
Here it is in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1
Breaking Dawn News – Cast & Stephenie Meyer Talking BD Part 1 – The faitytale that turned into a nightmare
Thanks to Breaking Dawn Movie.org
Breaking Dawn News – New Extended Version of Honeymoon Clip & Jacob Meeting the Wolfpack
Yup! This is the clip that was revealed at Comic Con this year!
In a clearer version – Edward & Bella just arrived at Isle Esme! Features more scenes of the house and you can hear The Noisettes ‘Sister Rosetta’ on the background!
Jacob telling Sam & The Wolfpack his plan to destroy ‘the problem’
Thanks to Breaking Dawn Movie.org
Breaking Dawn Soundtrack News – LISTEN TO ALL the songs in the Soundtrack for free on 29th October,2011
GUYS!!!
The Official Soundtrack for The Twilight Saga Website has announced that the will be doing a SOUNDTRACK STREAM PREMIERE!!
This Saturday, October 29th, as dawn breaks over Forks, WA at 7:30am PT (10:30am ET), you can listen to ALL of the BREAKING DAWN – PART 1 soundtrack for FREE on the soundtrack tab of the Twilight Facebook page (on.fb.me/BD1StkTab)!
The album stream will be live for a full 24 hours – until 7:30am PT (10:30am ET) on Sunday, October 30th!
Okay this translates to Singapore Time 29TH OCTOBER 2230 UNTIL 30TH OCTOBER 2230.
Looking forward to some good music!!
Breaking Dawn Soundtrack News – Christina Perri’s ‘A Thousand Years’
Its finally here!
Here’s Christina Perri giving a shout out for the Premiere of her music video for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 -”A Thousand Years”
Enjoy!
Breaking Dawn News – Extended Behind The Scenes Footage
Thanks to ScreenSlam for uploading the Extended Version on the BTS of Breaking Dawn Part 1.
Its gonna be interesting knowing how these scenes were shot and to see the finished product on the cinema screen.
Wonder how many takes of each did they have to do?
Breaking Dawn News – NEW CLIP from the Honeymoon in Isle Esme : “Don’t Take Too Long Mrs Cullen”
Summit Entertainment has just released a new clip from the Honeymoon at Isle Esme when Edward carries Bella over the threshold!
Breaking Dawn Soundtrack News – The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 will be in Singapore on 11th November
We have just learnt that Warner Music Singapore will release the Standard Edition CD for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 Original Motion Picture Soundtrack.
It will be sold at approximately SGD18.00 (note that individual retailers may have different pricings)
The Deluxe Version of the soundtrack will be released at a later date.
Also check out our post about the MTV Premiere of Christina Perri’s ‘A Thousand Years’ later today & her Shout out Video!
Breaking Dawn News – BD Part 1 will have Edward’s Back Story & Explores his darker side
We first read about it in the Fansites interview Bill Condon and now its mentioned in the following video at the Paris Fan Event!
Cannot.Wait. to see this back story unfold! We loved the part in Twilight where Carlisle first turned Edward into a vampire. And apparently in Breaking Dawn Part 1 we will see how Edward deals with being a Vampire being not quite yet vegetarian yet.
Q: How familiar with the series were you before you decided to pop into the last installment?
BC: Right. Pretty familiar, I guess. But not you know—I wouldn’t say I was a student of it but I was aware of them all and had seen them all. But then obviously once I jumped in it was really about Twilight Lexicon and it was the books and rereading and just making sure that we had everything right. You know things like—you saw the—Rob’s thing about( referencing a clip showing a glimpse into Edward’s past where he is at a movie theatre stalking “human monsters” )“I haven’t told you everything about myself” and there was a moment when I moved away from Carlisle. That’s only one line I think in the first book, you know, and he’d mentioned it one offhanded comment in one of the movies. But that was an example of something where the first time I met with Rob we had a long great night, many, many, many beers [laughter] and um, he said that one thing that had frustrated him a little is that—I guess that had been more developed in the first book, that was from Edward’s point of view, and it kind of informed the way he was playing the part throughout the whole movie. This sense of self-loathing and guilt that came from having killed humans for that period and yet, it had never been explored in the movies. So it felt like then I went back and looked at the section that described it in Twilight and I felt like, God, what better time right before a wedding to lay out the last objection, you know? And to have it also explain who he’s been, and then in the wedding you’ll see he has a toast where he said—he talks about the fact “to find that one person who can look at you, know everything there is to know about you and still accept you for who you are. I’m ready to move on”. So that being caught in this perpetual 17, and this perpetual kind of—I think you’ll see starting from the moment he gets married he moves on. The performance changes. It’s about him becoming a man. So I think that will be an interesting shift for people, you know? So that—the whole idea of just sort of, between discussions with him, going back finding a line in the first book and then deciding to dramatize that with an episode of him being someone who was on the hunt for human blood felt like something we hadn’t seen before.
Q: Speaking of that scene, I was really interested in the whole black/white dynamic—
BC: Sure.
—and I guess it was a parallel to the Frankenstein movie that was on.(in the scene where Edward is in a movie theater in the 1920’s the film that is playing is Frankenstein in black and white)
BC: I think in a way it was sort of. I mean, there are a lot of levels. One of them is that—I just like the fun that they’re all screaming at Frankenstein and they’ve got Edward in their midst—
(laughter)
BC: —walking behind them, but also, yeah, he’s become the monster in the movie. And actually, the whole movie turns out to be creating his bride. I mean, basically at the end that is what he’s done. Also, the tone of that movie is very similar when you’ve got Aro cackling—it’s similar tonally to a movie like that, and then finally the black and white thing that we do there is just like—as he kills people the color goes away and then it comes into him. So just a film language way to kind of give that sense, you know.
Breaking Dawn News – The TTS: Breaking Dawn Part 1 Begins in Paris : Official Video of Fan Event with Rob Pattinson & Ashley Greene
The first stop for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1′s International Promotion Tour is Paris!
Robert Pattinson and Ashley Greene attended a Fan Event and gave lots of exciting tidbits about the film!!
Thanks to Robert Pattinson Life for Rob’s interview above with TF1 transcript:
Laurence: Twilight, the fourth movie is coming out next month. The luckiest were able to see it yesterday at the Premiere of the movie, in Paris. We’ll talk about it in a few seconds with Robert Pattinson but first Benedicte Duran and Frédérique Miniard are going to present us the movie.
I’ll spare you what was said in the tiny documentary, nothing interesting.
Laurence: Robert, hello.
Rob: hello.
Laurence: Thank you for being in Paris. You come quite often in France, you have to like France to come promote the movie, don’t you?
Rob: No definitely, yeah. I love coming here; I come pretty much every three months.
Laurence: So today you came to talk to use about the last movie of the saga, which was cut into 2 movies. The shooting is over, everything’s packed. How are you feeling? Do you feel sad because it’s over or are you relieved?
Rob: I got a little bit of both. I mean I spent four years … It was a major part of my life. When I finished one of the Twilight movie, we filmed another one, I did a different movie then I went back to shot another Twilight so it’s very strange to be in this system anymore. I got used to it. I’ve made some great friends but I don’t know how much longer I can play seventeen so … I’m almost 26. It gets tricky after a while.
Laurence: About your character, Edward? Does he suits you, do you feel over him now that you’ve went forward in your movie career.
Rob: I guess someway, I’m filled with self-loathing , no I don’t, no. I guess in some ways I have. In this new one, I sort of step away from his characterization in the book, because he’s really passive in it and I needed to do more to give some kind of energy to the character. But I don’t know if he’s like me, maybe I got closer to him after all these years.
Laurence: Anyway, what’s interesting and that we saw in the news footage earlier is that your audience changed too. Before you had a bigger number of younger fangirls but now you also have the moms of those girls, that are called twimoms, the twilight moms. Does this surprise you, this phenomenon of a generation jump, going from little girls to older women?
Rob: I think they got younger. It started off with fans in their forties and now I feel like they’re coming right out of the cradle. I always assumed it was going to be a younger audience but it’s a lot of women in their mid-twenties, almost. The ones always hanging out on set. I don’t know maybe the little girls are getting influence by their moms.
Laurence: Do you consider yourself a big Hollywood star or are you still, in your head, this English kid who like music and rock and roll and sort of dies this as an act of rebellion?
Rob: I don’t know. I don’t have the same life that I used to. I’ve learned to like L.A. a lot more and I was in London last week and it’s almost impossible to live in London. There are so many people in the streets peeking out of everywhere so you have to hide. But in L.A. if you get out of your car you can probably avoid the crowd. Yeah, I don’t really know what I am.
Laurence: Let’s talk about music. You sang two songs for the first movie of the saga. Now that the filming is over, there are rumors that you’re going to record a whole album?
Rob: I mean, maybe one day. There are these sorts of rumors. I’m always playing and recording but I don’t know. People hate when actors become musicians so I’ve been avoiding it for the longest possible.
Laurence: You still making movies. You just filmed a movie with the Canadian, David Cronenberg . Do you want to take a different turn with your career after the enormous weight that is playing Edward Cullen and Twilight?
Rob: I mean, it’s not really moving away. I don’t think I can see myself doing Twilght after Twilight film for the next twenty years. But I’ve always wanted to mix it up, I mean working with people like Cronenberg, I mean that’s … I loved Cronenberg before I even started acting and especially with amazing actors, Juliette Binoche is in it, and Mathieu Amalric. There are tons of French people working with him. It’s totally different from what I’ve done before and I feel like I’m going in the right direction.
Laurence: Thank you so much, Robert Pattinson. Did you learn some French words during the filming of Cronenberg’s movie?
Rob: French words in general or about him?
Laurence: French words in general?
Rob: Just words in French. I can say huh. What do I know in French huh? I’m gonna sound like I’m completely insane. Le cochon dinde (guinea pig). Le bibliothèque (the library). Quelle est le date de ton anniversaire? (When is your birthday ?). god, i sound like such an idiot.
Laurence: No, you sounded very charming. Thank you for coming over. Breaking Dawn comes out next month on our big screens.
Breaking Dawn News – Part 2 of The Exclusive Fansites interview with Bill Condon
The Twilight Fansites namely: TwilightLexicon,TwiSource, TSTPodcast, TwilightMOMS, TwiExaminer & Twilighters Anonymous asked very good questions and had more or less cleared up a lot of stuff for us fans.
They’ve also managed to get Bill Condon to share some great stories about what happened behind the scenes and the filming of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 & 2.
A JOB AWESOMELY DONE!
Q: How was it filming both movies at the same time, ‘cause it’s your first time doing this? How was that?
BC: Yeah. Better than if we’d done it in 3D, the way we were thinking.
(laughter)
Yeah that was my question! Was: are you really doing it in 3D? ‘Cause that rumor’s been out there for so long.
BC: No, no.
Oh thank you.
BC: We were gonna do the second movie in 3D. There was a good idea behind that, which was: okay she wakes up as a vampire, now let’s see the world differently.
It’s a new dimension for her.
BC: But that wouldn’t have been—it wouldn’t have been just cheesy, but we would have gone crazy.
(laughter)
BC: I think we’re all grateful now. Yeah.
I can never see 3D movies. They just give me a headache so thank you. Thank you so much!
BC: I know. Yeah, no me too. I get a headache just from the tutorial.
(laughter)
BC: But yeah—so it was—I found it was not hard—it was harder on Kristen, I think, more than anybody but she stepped up. But not only to have to go from “oh my God, I’m high school graduate Bella” [to] “oh now I’m kind of intense momma vampire” in the same day! Not only that was a psychological challenge but also physically. I mean she had to—the vampire makeup was two hours. God help her, the pregnant, late term Bella was three hours prosthetics, and sometimes she’d be jumping back and forth between those things. So she was a real trooper, you know. I think it fell on her shoulders more than anybody else’s.
Q: Well, and we’re talking a lot about the serious stuff, and in the clip we saw we got to see some comedic relief from some of the Cullens. (in a pre-wedding scene Alice is barking orders at the family who are moving around large trees)I, and I think a lot fans, are really wanting to know is there going to be some comedic relief with the whole Rosalie/Jacob thing while Bella’s pregnant? Is it—even the trailer’s really serious, which I love—BC: Yeah, yeah.
—but in the book there’s a lot of comedic relief that I think fans love, and is that going to be in the movie?
BC: Yeah. Yeah, there’s definitely a lot of comedy in the movie.
Good.
Q: I have a question. Melissa Rosenberg, when she was talking about the birth scene, she always kind of said something to the effect of “Well, I wrote it and now it’s up to Bill how he wants to do it”. And I was kind of wondering, what do you have to add to that?
BC: In terms of the birth?
Yeah. What did you see? Like how did you see doing it?
BC: Again, the basic idea there was—went back to the approach of the novel which is let’s have her give birth and only see what she can see. So it’s all from her point of view, right? And for me, that allows us to do things like oh my God, he’s coming back into frame and he’s got blood on his teeth! He just bit through something. And if you know what he bit through then you know, but if you don’t, you don’t, you know? So it’s like—it gives—I think for people who know it intimately it gives us that moment: “oh my God, the baby’s just bitten her”. But we don’t see it, you know. It’s only what she can see. So that was the approach there.
Q: I have a question about the leaked photos that came out.
BC: Yeah.
Did you have to change anything because of the leak?
BC: No, we’ve kind of just ignored it.
You ignored it?
BC: Yeah.
Q: So building a relationship with your cast members, and obviously, your crew and all that, what was your favorite aspect of building with the team?
BC: You know what? I think it was with the actors, being able to really spend weeks and weeks before we started talking through the scripts over, and over, and over again, you know. Um, and especially Kristen who knows it so well and she feels such a strong like burden of responsibility to live up to what the fan—she’s a fan, you know. She [said] “I cried when I read this [the] first time. I wanna make sure that people [cry]”, you know. So that when she’s walking down the aisle at the wedding, you can’t believe what she puts herself through to make sure she gets into the state that’s gonna make—like open her up to all of the feelings that Bella’s feeling at that moment. It’s really amazing to watch. So that, I think, more than anything, you know. And I always think with Kristen too—sometimes she gets a bad rap for—like she seems like she’s a little, you know, unfriendly and things like that. I think that it’s all just—it’s her—she’s so tough on herself and that’s all it is.
She’s so great one-on-one.
BC: Yeah, yeah.
Q: Any favorite moment on set? Like a favorite moment on there?BC: Oh gosh.
(laughter)
Q: Tell us about the dance off, what happened? ( the actors on Twitter kept referring to the Breaking Dawn Dance Battle)
BC: Oh yeah, that thing. You heard about that, right? That was amazing. God, I’ve never been surprised on a set like that ever.
Q: Is that gonna make the DVD?
BC: I would think so, yeah. I would think so.
JM: It will, because we knew it was happening and he didn’t know but I knew, and we T-ed up all the DVD documentary guys. It’s like “this is happening” and we had all these cameras going.
Thank you.
‘Cause all the fans wanna know that. Everyone tweeted about it so much.BC: Just the part of me dancing won’t be on there.
(laughter)
Q: Next to Catherine Hardwicke, you probably had the larger shot of casting.
BC: Yes, it’s true. Yeah.
I mean just compared to—I mean just everybody else, you know there was the wolf pack—
BC: Yeah, like 70 of them.
One of my favorite movies is Jerry Maguire with the line, “You had me at ‘hello’”. Was there anybody in that casting process that maybe you didn’t know and then you were just like, “Whoa, you had me at ‘hello’!” Who was your—
BC: You know who? Mackenzie Phillips. I mean—Foy…Mackenzie.
(laughter)
BC: She’s a perfect, perfect—yeah, [inaudible] Mackenzie Foy. Mackenzie Foy was like, wow that’s it. She looks like their daughter and there’s just a quality she had, you know. I mean and it was such a relief because Renesmee was so tough to picture and imagine, you know? So I have to say she was just like, I think we’ve got it right there ‘cause it’s possible. And then I showed her to everybody else and everybody agreed.
Q: How were the auditions for the new cast members?
BC: The auditions?Yeah. How you chose them?
BC: You know some of them came in, some of them were on tape. All of that, you know. And then—
I guess it’s a lot.
BC: A lot, yeah I know. We, yeah…but we had a great casting director, Debbie Zane, who I worked with a lot. She really did a wonderful job sort of tracking everybody around the world.
Q: Going back to Renesmee, it was such a big thing, like Stephenie always said…I think when Breaking Dawn the book came out, she said, “You know, I don’t know if the technology will be advanced enough by the time the film comes out”. How did you approach that? Like was that a daunting thing, were you excited to do it? How did you approach Renesmee as a character?BC: Yeah, it was a little scary at first just ‘cause it is all that dots on people’s faces and helmets and things like that. But it was—it actually turned out to be fun. Mackenzie was there all the time to sort of provide the model for whatever size girl was playing the part. And then weirdly enough, the three-year old, four-year old, they all have their different personalities and they were all kinda good, you know. So actually you sort of fall in love with aspects of different girls all the way through. But we’re just—there’s John Bruno (he walks into the room), who’s our visual effects supervisor, the legend.
Say hello, John.
(laughter)
BC: But we haven’t done any of that yet ‘cause it’s movie two, so it’ll be fascinating to see when it actually starts, to see if it works.
Q: A lot of directors get this glazed look in their eye when people say, “What is your biggest Twilight movie challenge?” And they go like this [runs hand through hair with hellish exasperated look], and they go, “The weather.” You probably were the person who’s had to spend the least amount of time in the Pacific Northwest; so I’m just curious, were you warned beforehand that the biggest challenge was the weather?
(laughter)
BC: Yes. Because we were up there for a third of the schedule but we shot every interior in Baton Rouge so we had to be outside everyday. And we had nowhere to go when it was raining, which was everyday. So that was a huge challenge, absolutely. The most amazing thing was it was April 15, it was the last night of shooting, we looked up and it was snowing.
(laughter)
You can’t—you can hide rain, you can’t hide snow. We were just like, “Oh my God, what are we gonna do?” And then suddenly, you know, like an hour later it stopped. But, you know…
Q: Was the weather problematic at all in Brazil, too? I mean I’m thinking of the water and—
BC: Yes.
(laughter)
BC: No, that was a pretty—you know we were on this island near Paraty, sorta 45 minutes available just by boat, and at the end of our, I think, second, maybe third, night of shooting we go to get in our boats to go back to the village and there’s a storm, which turns into a typhoon and we’re stuck there all night. It’s 80 people on the floor, and one bottle of vodka that they found in the wine closet!
Oh no! (laughter)
JM: Sleeping on the floor of the set.
BC: Sleeping on the floor of the set. We were all—Stephenie was on a huge mattress and we’d hang around her for awhile. It was amazing, yeah so…Q: How was your visit to Brazil did you get to know some cities? What did you do in your spare time?
BC: In Rio?
Yeah, in Rio.
BC: Well, it was great ‘cause the film festival was going on there at that time so I got to—
In Paraty, right?
BC: No, no in Rio. When we were prepping in Rio ‘cause we shot in Rio too.
Oh, you shot in Paraty and Rio.
BC: That’s right. So I got to hang out with some filmmakers who were there and that was sorta just a nice way to get like a glimpse of the film community there.
READ MORE of the Fansites Exclusive Interview with Bill Condon over at Twilight Lexicon!
Breaking Dawn News – Fansites COOL interview with Bill Condon MUST READ!
In June Twilight Fansites namely: TwilightLexicon,TwiSource, TSTPodcast, TwilightMOMS, TwiExaminer & Twilighters Anonymous were invited to interview the Director of The Twilight Saga: Part 1 & Part 1 – Bill Condon at the Editing Room (!!)
Here’s part of the transcript of the Part 1 of the interview from Twilight Lexicon. Please head on to Twilight Lexicon for the FULL INTERVIEW.
Q: How familiar with the series were you before you decided to pop into the last installment?
BC: Right. Pretty familiar, I guess. But not you know—I wouldn’t say I was a student of it but I was aware of them all and had seen them all. But then obviously once I jumped in it was really about Twilight Lexicon and it was the books and rereading and just making sure that we had everything right. You know things like—you saw the—Rob’s thing about( referencing a clip showing a glimpse into Edward’s past where he is at a movie theatre stalking “human monsters” )“I haven’t told you everything about myself” and there was a moment when I moved away from Carlisle. That’s only one line I think in the first book, you know, and he’d mentioned it one offhanded comment in one of the movies. But that was an example of something where the first time I met with Rob we had a long great night, many, many, many beers [laughter] and um, he said that one thing that had frustrated him a little is that—I guess that had been more developed in the first book, that was from Edward’s point of view, and it kind of informed the way he was playing the part throughout the whole movie. This sense of self-loathing and guilt that came from having killed humans for that period and yet, it had never been explored in the movies. So it felt like then I went back and looked at the section that described it in Twilight and I felt like, God, what better time right before a wedding to lay out the last objection, you know? And to have it also explain who he’s been, and then in the wedding you’ll see he has a toast where he said—he talks about the fact “to find that one person who can look at you, know everything there is to know about you and still accept you for who you are. I’m ready to move on”. So that being caught in this perpetual 17, and this perpetual kind of—I think you’ll see starting from the moment he gets married he moves on. The performance changes. It’s about him becoming a man. So I think that will be an interesting shift for people, you know? So that—the whole idea of just sort of, between discussions with him, going back finding a line in the first book and then deciding to dramatize that with an episode of him being someone who was on the hunt for human blood felt like something we hadn’t seen before.
Q: Speaking of that scene, I was really interested in the whole black/white dynamic—
BC: Sure.
—and I guess it was a parallel to the Frankenstein movie that was on.(in the scene where Edward is in a movie theater in the 1920’s the film that is playing is Frankenstein in black and white)
BC: I think in a way it was sort of. I mean, there are a lot of levels. One of them is that—I just like the fun that they’re all screaming at Frankenstein and they’ve got Edward in their midst—
(laughter)
BC: —walking behind them, but also, yeah, he’s become the monster in the movie. And actually, the whole movie turns out to be creating his bride. I mean, basically at the end that is what he’s done. Also, the tone of that movie is very similar when you’ve got Aro cackling—it’s similar tonally to a movie like that, and then finally the black and white thing that we do there is just like—as he kills people the color goes away and then it comes into him. So just a film language way to kind of give that sense, you know.
Q: Should we expect to see a lot of that kind of playing with new dimensions that we haven’t seen before in the other [films]?
BC: Yeah, I think so. You know why I think? Because in this movie it’s Jacob, in the next movie it’s Bella. You know as that surprising thing that Stephenie did in the book where having told the story through Bella’s point of view, then suddenly she shifted to Jacob’s point of view in the middle, and then you’re back to Bella’s. In this movie you do—there is this chunk of movie where you get inside the head of what it’s like to be a wolf. So that involves a certain stylization. And then in the next movie, the big change is we’ve been watching these vampires from Bella’s point of view but now it’s like we—because we are her—now it’s like you’re inside what it’s like to be a vampire. What it’s like to move that fast. What it’s like to have those powers. What it looks like. What the world looks like through her eyes. So both of those—they are more—it does become more the point of view of those characters and you get more—it’s more immersive, I think, and that involves a certain kind of stylization.
Q: I love that you’re talking point of view. I mean one of the things that I really love and that other people love too about the movies is that because the books are first person, either from Bella’s point of view or Jacob’s point of view, that now you get to expand out into that scene in Volterra—
BC: That’s right. Yes.
—and you get to see that total—what you only can imagine is occurring. How much collaboration did you have with Stephenie Meyer on those sort of alternate point of view moments that you don’t see in the books, but clearly were happening to get everything to spin.
BC: Right. Well, I think my kind of most intense collaboration was with Melissa Rosenberg—Stephenie was there and part of it all the time, and then—but we were the ones who sort of day-by-day, once I got involved in a rough outline form, we would be there kind of shaping what the scripts would be, and then Stephenie, along with the other producers, would have comments and things like that. Obviously, she’s this great resource that we would go to all the time.
Q: So how much collaboration did you do on the day to day script writing? I mean after doing Chicago and doing Dreamgirls as a screenwriter, I was wondering how’s the adaptation different going from a musical to a movie to going from this large volume of a book to a movie?
BC: Right, which I’d done before too. Gods and Monsters was an adaptation of a book, so that was something, but Melissa wrote these scripts—*his phone rings* Excuse me, this is her right now—
(laughter)
—which was great ‘cause I mean you know I jumped into this in March or April or something and we were shooting—you know if you’re prepping two movies and all that stuff—so it was sort of just—it was kind of overwhelming right there in the beginning. So Melissa, who knew it so well and is such a solid, strong writer—we would collaborate and talk through scene after scene after scene, structure, all that stuff, and then she’d come back. And it was really very, as I said, very intense for several months. But it was her. It was her knowing the stuff inside out…and creating. She’s done a lot of creating too on these movies.
Q: Speaking of Melissa and Stephenie, I think it was you that pointed out the cameo first—
BC: Oh right! Yeah.
It was Laura from the Lexicon.(room points at Laura)
Q: What—how did that come about? Who’s idea was that?
BC: Um, I kinda like nudged them all into doing it.
(laughter)
BC: And I stuck them in the back so you could see them as Bella’s coming down the aisle and get a good glimpse of them, you know.
Thank you on behalf of all of us!
READ MORE of the Twilight Fansites Interview with Bill Condon over at Twilight Lexicon.
Breaking Dawn Soundtrack News – Christina Perri’s ‘A Thousand Years’ Music video Premieres this Wednesday!
As you guys might have heard Bruno Mars’ music video ‘It Will Rain’ is currently being re-shot and will be delayed.
Bruno Mars tweeted earlier today :
Hey guys I’m still working on the ‘It Will Rain’ video The MTV premiere will happen in a couple weeks. Be patient for ya boy.. Love Yall
So instead we get Christina Perri!!!
Her music video for ‘A Thousand Years’ will premiere on
MTV US : AMTV, MTVHits, MTV.com & VH1.com Wednesday 26th October, at 6AM EST (which translates to Singapore Time as 6PM Wednesday)
followed by VH1 Top 20 Countdown Premiere on Saturday 29th October @ 9 AM EST ( 9PM Singapore same day)
Here is Christina Perri’s Shout out video for the Premiere of ‘A Thousand Years’ on Wednesday!!!
And here’s a teaser pic for the video from Christina Perri herself!
Breaking Dawn News – Christina Perri’s First Live Performance of ‘A Thousand Years’ (Acoustic version)
We cannot get enough of this song! Thanks again Christina Perri!
Cannot wait forNovember 8th for The Official Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 Official Soundtrack to come out in Singapore!!!
HUGE BREAKING DAWN NEWS!!! SINGAPORE TWILIGHT FANS WILL YOU BE THE ONE?
Our reaction when we got the news
Then the realization set in.. then..
*faint*
rescuscitated
*breathe*
We’ve just heard from Channel 5 and they are letting Twilight Singapore readers in on the ‘something very special’ they have in store mentioned in our post yesterday.
Are you guys ready?
Mediacorp’s Channel 5 will be having a The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 Contest, the PHENOMENAL TWILIGHT PRIZE – BLEW US AWAY!
And we quote:
We will be sending the Lucky Winner (with A Friend), on a Once-In-A-Lifetime trip to Los Angeles to attend the World Premiere of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 in Los Angeles!
A contest trailer will start running on air sometime the end of next week, so please ask all of your friends and fellow Twi Hards to keep your eyes glued to Channel 5 for more details!
*knocking on computer screen*
Hello?! Everybody still conscious? 
This is the ULTIMATE PRIZE for us Twilight fans – To be at the second last of the Twilight Saga Movie premieres and to see and maybe meet EVERY ONE of the Twilight Cast in person after following them from afar for all these years.
We cannot wait to see who will represent Singapore Twilight Fans at The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 World Premiere on Monday 14th of November, 2011 at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles.
Just think about it, you don’t have camp out weeks before the premiere. You get to dress to impress and maybe walk the red carpet. Get door gifts at the premiere. Schmooze with Hollywood people and best of all watch Breaking Dawn Part 1 with the cast or take a pic or 2 with them.Who knows how much more lucky you can get!
Know this – We envy you already – whoever you are!
Hehe – we don’t know if it will happen exactly as as we imagined cos we don’t have the exact details of the prize yet – but we can still dream 
So we cannot urge you enough – TO WIN THE ULTIMATE TWILIGHT FAN EXPERIENCE – TUNE IN TO CHANNEL 5
Also:
Follow @MediaCorpCh5/Twitter, and
LIKE their Facebook Page/MediaCorp Channel 5
GO TO MEDIACORP CHANNEL 5 : http://entertainment.xin.msn.com/en/tv/channel-5/events/article.aspx?cp-documentid=5460030&ocid=tweet
Breaking Dawn News – Impressive CGI & Visual Effects in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn
Modus FX did the CGI effects on Breaking Dawn Part 1.
See if you can spot all these when you watch the film!
Montreal, Que: Oct 20, 2011… Montreal-based studio Modus FX recently delivered invisibly integrated visual effect shots for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1. The latest installment in the wildly popular romantic vampire series based on the novels by Stephenie Meyer opens in theatres on Nov 18. Incorporating a stylized look as a visual expression of the more-than-human qualities of the characters, the film required seamless CGI and a refined aesthetic.
A team of 12 artists at Modus had six weeks to complete 42 shots for the film, which included creating a pregnant belly for lead actress Kristen Stewart, digitally removing a wrist brace she was wearing in another sequence and a variety of subtle cosmetic refinements.
Yanick Wilisky, visual effects supervisor and co-founder of Modus FX, described the challenges of creating organic CG. “We are all so used to seeing organic objects and surfaces. If something is just slightly off, you know it’s fake – even if you can’t put your finger on exactly what the problem is.”
Making Stewart look pregnant was one of the tasks assigned to Modus. “They wanted the baby to kick and move inside her belly,” said Wilisky. “We had to match the camera moves, the lighting, even the film grain, along with the subtleties of her skin.”
In fact, according to CG supervisor Martin Pelletier, “The two hardest things to work with in CG are water and skin.”
“For this project, we had to be really quick in terms of turn around,” he explained. “We made use of very complex lighting from the set, adding 3D layers, and a matchmove of her stomach, to make her look pregnant. We took our time at the start to get the recipe right and that paid off in efficiency once we got going. We were soon able to turn around several shots each day.”
“Hand-Crafted” Visual Effects
In one central sequence – the wedding of Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) and Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) – the camera pans around the newlyweds as they embrace. However, due to a minor wrist injury, Stewart was wearing a brace on the day of the shoot. Naturally, the brace had to be removed in post.
“Matchmoving a close-up is a good example of the challenges of organic CG,” said Pelletier. “We started with a CG model of the hand and then carefully crafting the rig to create natural motions. Once we had that, every minute movement of the hand had to be matched exactly.”
The shot, which is over 300 frames, called for extensive camera tracking and object tracking. Lighting artists at Modus rendered the actor’s hand with subsurface scattering to capture the partial translucence of skin and make it look believable.
“Tracking was particularly challenging, because when they were shooting it, they weren’t thinking about it as an effects shot. There was no camera metadata for the sequence,” Pelletier explained. “The solution was to do a series of careful manual adjustments until we had correctly replicated the light sources on the set. For work like this, it really takes the eye of a skilled artist to get it right.”
“Bella is moving in the shot as the camera circles around her,” Wilisky added, “She’s holding Edward’s hand, so we needed to recreate parts of his hand, along with some of the background. It was a highly technical and complex shot, but no one will see any of that when they watch the movie.”
Read more at Animation World Network
Countdown to Breaking Dawn Quiz: Week 1
Today will be the first week for the Countdown to Breaking Dawn Quiz and we hope that those participating have already read the Terms and Conditions.
1st Week Question: Bella has a very rare blood type, O negative. While pregnant with Renesmee, Bella had her first taste of this blood type in order to satisfy the fetus. What is the difference of the blood types between the O negative and O positive?
Submit your answers to: twilightsingapore@gmail.com
Title of Email: “Breaking Dawn Quiz Week 1″
Deadline of Submission: 27 October at Midnight
The winner will be announced next week together with this week’s answer and the 2nd week’s question for the Breaking Dawn Quiz on the 28th October.
Good luck, everyone!
Countdown to Breaking Dawn Quiz: Introduction
In light that The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 will be released in less than a month (OMG), Twilight Singapore is proud to present to you the “Countdown to Breaking Dawn Quiz”! We will be posting questions every week and we’ve got awesome prizes that are ready to be won!
A question pertaining to Breaking Dawn [The book only] and a couple of trivia questions, that will be asked every Friday. You have 6 days to submit your answers and the judges will decide on who are the winners. The winner will receive a surprise prize!
To learn more and enter this contest, read up more on the terms and conditions written below:
- The Contest is open to all residents of Singapore and South-East Asian Regions. Age is unlimited.
- Contestants will have to give us your answers together with your full mailing address and postal code. Confidentiality will be observed.
- Only one entry per person a week.
- There will be a different winner that will be announced each week together with a new question.
- Deadline of submission will be 6 days from the day of the posting of the question.
- Incomplete entries will be disqualified.
- Submit your answers to twilightsingapore@gmail.com. Write “Breaking Dawn Quiz” in the email’s subject.
- By agreeing to these terms, you are agreeing to these terms and conditions.
The first question will be posted up very soon today, so keep coming back to our website to check it out! Let’s start gearing up for Breaking Dawn and we wish everyone best of luck!
