Breaking Dawn News – Breaking Dawn Part 1 Production Designer Talks to ‘Architectural Digest’ About Isle Esme House & the various sets in the movie
Thanks to Twilight Poison for the heads up!
We first saw the images of the Isle Esme house over a year ago and we posted pictures of the ‘House in Paraty’ because there were rumors circling that the house was going to be used in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 – and we thought it was perfect! And it was !
Architectural Digest Magazine has recently interviewed The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1′s Production Designer , Richard Sherman and asked how he did his job in preparing the scenes in the movie.
AD: Did you change anything about the house?
RS: For the movie we actually created our own exterior—what’s visible when you approach the house by boat—in the visual effects department. What you see of the real house is the front door, the steps leading up to it, the veranda, and all those glass doors. I loved the interior. We made a big open kitchen and living room. Some of the scenes that take place inside the house were actually shot on soundstages in Louisiana, where we created a courtyard, a bathroom, and the bedroom where Edward and Bella spend their wedding night. It was a seamless set—you really couldn’t tell the difference between the house and our stages.
Sherman and his team re-created Edward and Bella’s fictional honeymoon destination, Isle Esme, on Saco do Mamanguá, a remote tropical fjord near Paraty, Brazil, accessible only by boat or helicopter. The house was designed by Thiago Bernardes of the architecture firm Bernardes + Jacobsen and was featured in the January 2011 issue of Architectural Digest.
A number of the scenes that take place inside the Brazil beach house were actually shot on sets—a bedroom, bathroom, and courtyard—built on a Louisiana soundstage. The production team’s challenge was to create a seamless transition between the house and the sets. “We see Edward and Bella arrive at the house at night,” Sherman says. “Then she walks through the living room, and the scene cuts to our set. You can’t tell the difference. It looks like a part of that house.” Photo: Andrew Cooper
Pivoting glass doors along the veranda span the entire length of the house, allowing breezes to pass through, while the double-height ceiling adds to the feeling of openness. Everything about the design is intended to enhance the architecture’s integration with the surrounding landscape.
Sherman also gave the Volturi castle—home to Aro (Michael Sheen, center) and Caius (Jamie Campbell Bower)—a new look for Breaking Dawn—Part 1. “That was fun for me as a production designer because we started with a big empty stage and ended up with a medieval castle.” But fans will have to wait until Part 2 comes out, in 2012, to see it fully. “Though we didn’t show too much of it in the first movie, you’ll see a lot of it in the second,” Sherman says.
AD: Were some of the sets recycled from previous movies, or are they all new?
RS: Bella’s house is the same. But we rebuilt the whole three-story set of the Cullen house in Louisiana on a soundstage, and we remade its exterior in the woods of Vancouver. We changed the interior decoration of the Cullen house subtly but completely. If you remember the original house well, you’ll notice that it is completely different. This has the same tone, but it’s a lot prettier. The other huge change is the castle of the Volturi, a group of vampires from the Roman Empire. The sets from the other movies kind of looked like—no offense to those art directors—the Four Seasons Hotel, with marble columns and sconces. So we built an old castle on stage.
AD: Basically the whole series has been building toward Bella and Edward’s wedding. What was your approach to designing such a momentous scene?
RS: The way Stephenie has written it in the book, it’s a very pretty wedding—it has the white path and the white chairs that are covered in white fabric. But Bill [Condon, the film’s director] and I thought, How can we make this truly special and unique? For the people who know the books and movies, this is the wedding of the century. So we created this very organic, whimsical, fairy tale–like atmosphere—A Midsummer Night’s Dream kind of thing—with benches and seating made of branches that came out of the ground and were covered in moss and flowers. The whole forest floor was covered in moss. The ceiling was dripping flowers.
Breaking Dawn News: Bella’s Wedding Dress by Carolina Herrera
Just remembering all our reactions when we first saw Bella’s Wedding Dress – our jaws were on the floor as we were following the camera as it went lower and lower .. XD The silhouette shows off Bella’s curves and the satin glimmers with every movement. A masterpiece.
Thanks to Twilight Saga: Facebook UK for sharing these images of one of our MOST FAVOURITE scene – the EXQUISITE details of the dress.
Here’s some Bella’s Wedding Dress facts by Twilight FB:
1) The dress is made out of crepe satin and French Chantilly lace
2) 152 buttons line the back of the dress and there are 17 buttons on each sleeve
3) Ms Herrera plans to include the design in her 2012 collection and it will be available at her CHNY boutiques next year
4) The estimated value of Bella’s wedding dress is $35,00
4) The bridal dress company Alfred Angelo will be selling a replica of the dress in select stores retailing at $799
Breaking Dawn News – Singapore Winner to Breaking Dawn World Premiere in Los Angeles shares her experience
Remember the Channel 5 The Twilight Saga:Breaking Dawn – Part 1 Contest earlier this month?
Well the winner has written on the Channel 5 Blog and sharing her experience!! Head on there now!
Hello! I’m Tan Sin Nee and I was the lucky winner of the recent The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 SMS contest on Channel 5! I was flown to Los Angeles to attend the premiere of the latest Twilight movie and I’m here to share my experience with all of you!
First of all, a very big Thank You to Shaw Organisation and Channel 5 for giving me this chance to go to Los Angeles, for this very rare and once-in-a-lifetime experience to see my favourite stars from The Twilight Saga.
The awesome fans. The huge crowd of the media there. And then we were being ushered again into a VIP area of our own to join in the red carpet frenzy! We waited there for 1 hour or so before the stars started arriving and the fandom started! Screaming everywhere, boards and posters and signs full of the stars’ names were held high up in the air. It was the greatest atmosphere ever!!
Read More over at the Channel 5 Blog!
Thanks to Channel 5 for sharing the news.
Twilight Singapore & The National Library Board present Breaking Dawn: Forever & Always – Event Pictures
Firstly,
OUR HEARTFELT GRATITUDE TO
Shaw Organisation
Ilyani Suhaimi from The Public Libraries (NLB)
&
Warner Music Singapore
for their continuing support for Twilight fans in Singapore.
We also like to Thank our Helpful Volunteers who did so much to make our event a success!
And last but not least – The Twilight Fans who attended and participated : We really hope you enjoyed yourself!
Here are pictures from the event taken by our staff members and by Ilyani for NLB and is featured in their GoArts Facebook page.
The Preparation for our White Wedding Reception (with a bit of red) for Breaking Dawn: Forever & Always
Flowers on a stick (recycled from the New Moon Fiesta Volturi flags) cos we couldn’t afford to replicate Stephenie Meyer & Bill Condon’s flowers & gossamer ribbons and of course the Wedding Arch in the movie. So Izzati came up with this , inspired by this wedding aisle.
We decided to make a 3 tier cake for Edward & Bella’s Reception instead of the giant one Alice did. 
Its a fake cake made up of styrofoam and white jumping clay with plastic pearls individually embedded on the tiers as well as three different types of silk flowers. Thanks to a volunteer – April who figured out how to smoothen out the jumping clay so it’d look like icing. We wanted to use real fondant made out of marshmallows but it wouldn’t be practical in our weather.
Pom poms that Izzati improvised to become giant flowers!
Volunteers & Staff members decorating the venue the night before the event.
Pictures of ‘Firsts’ were pasted all around Merpati Hall to commemorate some of the notable events when this 2 people first met. For example – First Sight : The First Time Bella saw Edward in the school cafeteria, First Kiss : “I just wanna try one thing”, First Rescue: the first time Edward saves Bella .. you get the drift.
The event banner
Invitation card to the event on the flipside is the official Breaking Dawn Part 1 poster
Volunteers and staff member do a final briefing before the event begins!
At Registration we give the guests the invitation card (shown above) and a door gift. No Red Packets required. 
Everyone present received a floral mug for their door gift. We hope you like it!
We set up the Honeymoon Scene with the red & white chess pieces, red soft pillows and of course FEATHERS!
What would any wedding be without at least a 3 tier Wedding Cake!
Congratulations Mr & Mrs Cullen!
The Event Program:
During the registration – The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part Original Soundtrack was played.
1) Screening of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 Trailers
2) The Breaking Dawn Quiz (Prizes: Breaking Dawn Part 1 Original US Double Sided Poster & Calendars for 10 winners)
3)Bella & Edward’s Wedding Usher Game ( Prizes: Breaking Dawn Part 1 Original US Double Sided Poster, Tall Mug & Stampset for the 16 players)
4) Guests are invited to enjoy a sumptuous refreshments.
5) Three Best Dressed Wedding Guests ( Prizes: Breaking Dawn Musical Jewellery Box)
6) Match the ‘Firsts’ pictures pasted around the hall to the chapters in the Twilight ( Prizes: Photo Frames & Stampsets for the 8 winners)
7) Bridal Bouquet throwing ( Prizes: Invitation to The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 Gala Premiere on 22 November at Lido Cinemas)
The players in the Wedding Ushers game randomly chosen to create teams of 3s (total 4 teams) where there are supposed to ‘seat’ wedding guests by their association to the either the groom or the bride
Players have to quickly get into their designated groups – Team Porsche, Team Aston Martin, Team Volvo & Team Chevrolet – break the ice and create a strategy on how to win! A team member would pick a name from the bag, shout it out loud, pass to their team-mate who will run to the 3rd team member who will paste the name to the sticky board.
Spectators
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE WINNERS!!!
Makan time has arrived!
Winners of The Best Dressed Wedding Guests!
We were at The Gala Premiere of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn!!!!!
At 730 pm last night we were at LIDO 1 along with hundreds of guests to watch The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn at the Gala Premiere! We were all present except for Izzati who had to sit for her exams exactly at the same time. She was with us in spirit
IT.WAS.AMAZING!!!!!!
Suffice to say all fans of the book will be SATISFIED!
The highlight of the evening apart from the movie of course was there was a LIVE Bella & Edward at LIDO – complete with a tux & flowy wedding dress!
Here ‘Edward’ is professing his love for ‘Bella’ and later kissed her on the forehead. The crowd howled! xD
More sights from the premiere.
Our Gala Door Gift
We want to watch Breaking Dawn Part 1 again!!
We just came back from the exclusive premiere of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 and we are still fawning over it!!! Fans of the book, you will definitely not be disappointed!! Thank you Bill Condon for directing the movie and making us fans relived the characters and the scenes as what we would like it to be!
Watching it once will not satiate our thirst as we definitely would like to watch it over, and over and over again!!
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 opens in Singapore on 24 November and don’t forget to watch it!
And to welcome our comrades from Hunger Games Singapore, do catch the trailer of The Hunger Games when you catch Breaking Dawn! Another good series and a movie worth waiting for!
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 Screening
That time of the year is finally here! Most of you have been sending us emails and your request have been granted!
Twilight Singapore will be organising a Breaking Dawn Part 1 Screening on December 4! Not only will this screening be for the Singaporean fans, but fans from Malaysia and Indonesia are joining us too!
If you would like to join us, do submit your name, contact number and the number of tickets needed to twilightsingaporeexclusive@gmail.com with the heading as “I Want to Watch Breaking Dawn” by 27 NOVEMBER 2011, 1159hrs
We will reply to your mail and will then inform you of the price of the ticket and the payment method.
We hope to see you there!
Twilight Singapore and NLB presents to you ‘Twilight Haiku’
Express with haiku
On the good tale of Twilight
Best three pieces win
Express yourself with a Twilight haiku! For the purposes of this contest, the haiku should be in this form – a line with five syllables, then a line with seven syllables, and a last line with five syllables.
Your masterpieces will be judged based on form (follow basic haiku form as stated above) and creativity.
Rules
- Poems must be original and unpublished
- To submit a poem for consideration, go to www.facebook.com/goarts, go to ‘Twilight Haiku’ events page, and post your haiku here. Do not post them on the main Go Arts facebook wall.
- You may submit multiple poems but each winner will be awarded only one prize.
- Poems must be submitted by the contest deadline, on Sunday, 18 December, 11.59pm
- We reserve the right to remove or disqualify any submissions
Terms & Conditions
1. The contest is open to all residents in Singapore. Employees of the National Library Board (NLB) and their families are not eligible to take part.
2. Winner will be selected NLB and Twilight Singapore, and judges’ decision are final.
3. NLB reserves the right to publish or display the selected entries with the name of the creators/winners of this contest for any media advertising, publicity, corporate collaterals, exhibitions and all NLB associated projects and purposes, without the need to get written consent nor the making of any payment of fees and expenses to the design creators/winners.
4. Prizes are non-transferable and all prizes will be awarded within one (1) month – i.e. thirty (30) working days from the date specified in the notification. Any unclaimed prizes will be donated to a charity of NLB’s choice.
5. Winners will be notified by Thursday, 22 December 2011. The results will also be announced on https://www.facebook.com/goarts and http://twilightsingapore.com.
We would like to thank those who attended our event yesterday! It was a success and we would like to THANK YOU for that! We only had around 2 weeks to plan for this event and we were so glad that it was eventful and smooth-flowing!!
Furthermore, this event will not be successful with the help of NLB for the venue, Shaw and Warner Music for their merchandises!
We hope you have enjoyed yourselves and enjoy the prizes too and congratulations to those who won the premiere tickets! The Twilght Singapore girls will be seeing you on 22 November!
Do head down to our Facebook page – TwilightSingapore.com for pictures!
Breaking Dawn News – Pics & Video Intv from The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 Black Carpet
Thanks to Thinking Of Rob for pics and videos!
Breaking Dawn Part 1 Screening
We have heard your requests and we will be organising a Breaking Dawn screening on December 4!
Not only will we watch Breaking Dawn with fans from Singapore, but fans from Malaysia and Indonesia too!
Do look out for this space and we will keep you updated about the screening!!
Countdown to Breaking Dawn: Week 4
The lucky winner from Week 3 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 3 Winner: Laila Cullen
Answer to Week 3′s Question:
The nightmare begin with Bella dreaming about the Volturi. She first dreams about a vampire boy with blooded eyes sitting on a pile of people that she loved . She dreamt about another boy four times , He was a human boy with flushed cheek and soft green eyes . Both of the boys shook with desperation and fear as the Volturi closed in on them . Bella always felt like she had the protect the unknown child in the nightmares despite knowing that she would fail to do so .
Congratulations, LAILA!
Now for the 4th and LAST 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!
4th Week Question: Right before Bella was about to give birth to Renesmee, Edward and Jacob had an intense discussion about Bella, where Edward had to ask Jacob for permission. What was the discussion about and why did he has to ask for permission?
Submit your answers to: twilightsingapore@gmail.com
Title of Email: “Breaking Dawn Quiz Week 4″
Deadline of Submission: 17 November at Midnight
This will will be the last question for Twilight Singapore’s Countdown to Breaking Dawn Quiz. The winner will be announced next week on 18 November together with this week’s answer .
Good luck, everyone!
Breaking Dawn : Forever & Always – 19th November 2011
As promised, here’s another event just for our Singaporean Twilighters, ‘Breaking Dawn: Forever & Always’! Yes, it is that time of the year again to celebrate another film from The Twilight Saga, ‘Breaking Dawn – Part 1′. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 opens in Singapore on 24th November 2011, Thursday!
THANK YOU to those who have registered for this event! Twilight Singapore will be looking forward to meet everyone of YOU on the 19th November 2011 @ Geylang East Public Library, Merpati Hall! In the meantime, let’s reminisce the good old memories since ‘Twilight’! 
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 – In Theatres 24 November
Directed by Bill Condon
Starring Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner
Rating: TBA
Runtime: 115 minutes
Chinese title: 暮 光 之 城 ： 破 晓I
In the highly anticipated next chapter of the blockbuster The Twilight Saga, the newfound married bliss of BELLA SWAN (Kristen Stewart) and vampire EDWARD CULLEN (Robert Pattinson) is cut short when a series of betrayals and misfortunes threatens to destroy their world.
After their wedding, Bella and Edward travel to Rio de Janeiro for their honeymoon, where they finally give in to their passions. Bella soon discovers she is pregnant, and during a nearly fatal childbirth, Edward finally fulfills her wish to become immortal.
But the arrival of their remarkable daughter, RENESMEE, sets in motion a perilous chain of events that pits the Cullens and their allies against the VOLTURI, the fearsome council of vampire leaders, setting the stage for an all out battle.
The suspenseful and deeply romantic BREAKING DAWN continues the epic tale of supernatural fantasy and passionate love that has made The Twilight Saga a worldwide phenomenon.
Cast News – New Trailer for Kristen Stewart’s SNOW WHITE & THE HUNTSMAN
BRILLIANT!! Can’t wait to see more!
Breaking Dawn News – New clip Alice & Rosalie dressing Bella for the Wedding
Thanks @foforks for the video!
Countdown to Breaking Dawn: Week 3
The lucky winner from Week 2 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 2 Winner: Divya Durai!
Answer to Week 2′s Question: Bella and Jacob first start discussing about her impending death and transition date , which then leads into him teasing her about the need of her honeymoon with Edward, as he believed that Edward and Bella wont be able to consummate without Bella getting hurt, until she is changed . Bella becomes angry at the insinuation that her honeymoon would not be “real”, and argues that she and Edward can indeed have sex and that it was a private matter. Jacob hence loses control of his temper at this discovery, and manhandles Bella.
Congratulations, Divya!
Now for the 3rd 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!
3rd Week Question: While on Isle Esme for their honeymoon, Bella have been having vivid dreams and nightmares. What were they about?
Submit your answers to: twilightsingapore@gmail.com
Title of Email: “Breaking Dawn Quiz Week 3″
Deadline of Submission: 10 November at Midnight
The winner will be announced next week together with this week’s answer and the 4th week’s question for the Breaking Dawn Quiz on the 11th November.
Good luck, everyone!
Breaking Dawn Music News – THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN- PART 1- THE SCORE
Thank you Warner Music for the heads up!!
The tracklisting for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 – The Score Music by Carter Burwell (Various Artists) is out!!
It will be available in two formats :
Digital to be released December 6th
Standard CD to be released on December 13th
There is no word yet on when this will be on sale Singapore – we will update you as soon as we get it!
We are loving the titles – they literally bring your through the film!!
SEQUENCE:
1. The Kingdom Where Nobody Dies 1:36
2. Cold Feet 2:44
3. What You See In The Mirror 3:04
4. Wedding Nightmare 1:09
5. Wolves on the Beach 2:00
6. Goodbyes 2:27
7. A Nova Vida 1:40
8. The Threshold 1:25
9. Pregnant 2:09
10. Morte 1:42
11. Honeymoon in Eclipse 2:26
12. A Wolf Stands Up 3:25
13. Two Man Pack 0:33
14. Don’t Choose That 2:24
15. O Negative 3:38
16. Hearing The Baby 2:25
17. Playing Wolves 3:15
18. Let’s Start With Forever 1:01
19. It’s Renesmee 2:26
20. The Venom 1:04
21. Hearts Failing 1:14
22. Biting 2:25
23. Jacob Imprints 1:14
24. You Kill Her You Kill Me 2:12
25. Bella Reborn 3:03
Breaking Dawn BTS!
Summit Entertainment has put up a new video on their wedding plus a little behind the-scenes video that we can look forward to already! WOOOHOOO!
And especially for Team Jacob, here’s one for you!
Breaking Dawn Singapore News – Details of Channel 5 BD Part 1 Premiere Contest
Catch TWILIGHT on Saturday 5 November at 10 pm on Channel 5 and find out how you can WIN A TRIP FOR TWO TO CATCH THE WORLD PREMIERE OF THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN PART 1 worth up to $9000.
Details of the contest within the show!
Prize Details
One Lucky Winner will walk away with the following worth up to $9000:-
- A pair of tickets to catch the World Premiere of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 in Los Angeles on [14 Nov 2011]
- 3 Days 2 Nights Hotel accommodation in Los Angeles (13 Nov 2011 – 15 Nov 2011)** Winner & travelling partner must be able to travel to LA from 13 Nov to 17 Nov 2011
[All entries must be submitted between 5 Nov 10pm and 6 Nov 1245am ( so we’ve got 2 Hours 45 minutes to send in our answers )
And we’ll close immediately after the telecast of Twilight.
Any entries received after 6 Nov 12:45 AM will be disqualified.
