Countdown to Breaking Dawn: Week 4 Winner
We have the last lucky winner from Week 4 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 4 Winner: Angie Keng
Answer to Week 4′s Question:
The discussion is Edward wanted Jacob who is the true Alpha and Ephraim’s heir to give Edward the permission to deviate from what Edward’s family have agreed to in their treaty with Ephraim. Edward wanted to Jacob to grant them an exception and give him the permission to save Bella’s life. Edward will do it even if Jacob does not give him the permission but he did not want to go back on his word if it can be avoided. Edward’s family never wanted to break the treaty and they do not do it likely. Edward wanted Jacob’s understanding because Jacob knew the reason why they have do this. Edward wanted the alliance between their families to carry on after this.
Jacob let Edward know from his thoughts that he should talk to Sam about this and not him. Edward told Jacob that Sam’s authority is assumed but Edward knew that Jacob wouldn’t take Sam’s authority away. Edward said that only Jacob has the right to agree to what he is asking. Jacob let Edward know from his thoughts that he couldn’t make the decision. Edward said that Jacob knew that he could make the decision and Jacob’s word on this could condemn or absolve them. Edward said that only Jacob can give this to him. From Jacob’s thoughts, he said that he doesn’t know and couldn’t think.
Edward said that they don’t have the time. Jacob knows that his few days have become a few hours but he said he doesn’t know and wanted Edward to give him a minute to think. Edward said yes and that is the end of their discussion about Bella.
Edward has to ask for permission because he does not want to go back on their word from what they have agreed in their treaty with Ephraim but he have to save Bella’s life so he wanted to ask for Jacob’s permission to allow him to save Bella’s life so that their alliance would be able to carry on after he have saved Bella.
Congratulations, Angie!
That’s all we have for the Countdown to Breaking Dawn Quiz folks! The wait is finally over as we can now rush to any near-by cinema to catch our long awaited The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1! We hope that all of you have managed to catch the movie and you have not, go catch it soon! The movie is not but AMAZING.
We hope to see you guys around our website to check on events we might be planning for you! So happy, watching! 
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 : 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.
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 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.
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 – 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 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 – 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: 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!
Breaking Dawn News – First image of Caius of the Volturi for TTS: Breaking Dawn Part 1
Here’s the first promotional image for Caius of The Volturi posted onn Saga Crespusculo’s Facebook.
Yikes, he really looks menacing and that’s an understatement!
Like he knows something that I don’t …
You agree?
[Edit] There’s no Volturi Medallion on him. Wonder if the Volturis are changing their look for Breaking Dawn Part 1.
Breaking Dawn News – BD Part 1 Behind The Scenes Footage
Thanks to Collider.com for cleaning it up and we get to see how Bill Condon worked with the Breaking Dawn Cast.
Breaking Dawn News – New Images from The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1
Heaps of Thanks to MovieFanatic.com for the awesome pics!
Here they are in the order of our favourites!
This pic just cracks us up! Emmett & Rosalie moving logs like they’re nothing! So cool! Cannot wait to see this!
Bella trying on the sky high killer heels that Alice chose for her and was exclusively designed by Carolina Herrera (her wedding dress designer as well) in collaboration with Manolo Blahnik. (according to @CourtneyJustice)
Spot Edward’s Bloody shirt – wonder what happened there!?!?
One word : Awwwwww..
They look soo happeee!
The always literally hot & smouldering Jacob.
Happy Cullens
Cannot wait to see this in moving pictures!!!!
SINGAPORE!! Are you ready for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1?
Its that time again! In a few days you guys are gonna see a lot of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 in Singapore!! We have heard from a little bird that THIS YEAR – Fans in Singapore are gonna get the surprise of their TWILIGHT LIFETIME!!!!!!!
We at Twilight Singapore are literally like …..
and cannot wait for IT to be REVEALED!!!!
So watch this space!
*breathe*
We are also in the midst of planning an event to celebrate the premiere of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 in Singapore.
We hope you guys would join us like you did for Twilight Soiree, New Moon Fiesta and Eclipse : Fire & Ice !
Heads Up!!
Breaking Dawn Soundtrack News – Christina Perri’s song in BD Part 1 : A Thousand Years
OMG.. Am literally a crying blubbering mess after watching this video. This could possibly the FAVOURITE SONG in the Breaking Dawn Part 1 Soundtrack. Its gonna be as distinct a Twilight classic like Paramore’s Decode.
The song tells of Bella & Edward’s journey through life until they found each other.
From the onset of the video, the lyrics of the song are written on boards and nailed to the trees. The lush beautiful ancients trees that is omnipresent in Forks – the cold, wet town that Bella hated but grew to love.
A Thousand Years’ melody is utterly gorgeous and moves us as it brings you along into Bella’s mind (just like in the books!) on her big day. Its her wedding day and she is walking towards Edward standing waiting for her at the altar. All her doubts and all her insecurities are cast away as she realizes that she was right all along. “One Step Closer”
And on the other hand, Edward - “All along I believed I would find you, Time has brought your heart to me, I have loved you, For a thousand years”
Its a simple music video but it says so much. Christina Perri is obviously a Twilight fan cos not only she has an understanding of the story to write this beautiful song, she’s gonna appeal to all the fans by including elements of the previous book covers in this music video! The Apple = the forbidden fruit for Twilight, The Flowers and ruffled petals of New Moon, The Red tethered and torn ribbon of Eclipse and The Chess set from Breaking Dawn where Bella who was at first the pawn who overcame the odds became the powerful Queen.
ENJOY!
Tell us what you felt after listening to this song.
Breaking Dawn News – [UPDATED] The loong awaited Trailer is finally here! All 2 mins and 30 seconds of it!
Thank you to Yahoo Movies for bringing it to us!
We know you like!!!!!
What do you think?!
[updated] Here’s some of our favourite shots from the trailer!
The Cullens & their extended Vegetarian Vampire Family
The Wedding set in the FOREST!
Stephenie Meyer & Wyck Godfrey at The Wedding and Edward waiting for Bella.
Bella breaking Jacob’s heart (again)
Everyone giving the New Mr & Mrs Cullen a rousing sendoff.
Edward Cullen (being traditional as ever) carries his new Mrs over the threshold
Edward crushing the headboard
Bella waking up to feathers!
Edward: “Last night was the best night of my existence”
The WolfPack at La Push ( beautiful shot)
A tender moment for Edward, Bella and their unborn child
Sam or Jacob in wolf form watching The Cullen House from a distance (awesome POV)
Edward Cullen in a dilemma
The Cullens & Jacob’s pack defending Bella against Sam’s pack
Sam doing what he is suppose to do – protect his tribe from the Cold Ones
Jacob protecting the girl he loves
Baby’s Coming!!
