NEW MOON SPOILERS HERE! DON”T READ IF YOU DON”T WANT TO BE SPOILED! (I didn’t read it! LOL)
The sequence for the birthday party: “Edward relates the history of the Volturi to Bella, she becomes wounded in the hand, and Edward faces off against Jasper.”
One special challenge for the production team was how to convey Bella’s depression once Edward departs. In the books..the month pages do it. (October, November, December, January) In the film the passage of time is represented with visual effects. Bella sits in her chair in the bedroom and a camera circles around here while the seasons change outside her window.
Another shot manipulation, instead of Bella running to her truck and driving home after seeing the wolves in the meadow, she runs out of the woods and tells Charlie immediatly that she saw them. Changes made to make the scene more efficient.
The 1st trailer that was at the MTV awards was a “dress rehersal”. They didn’t have all the time they needed to put some of the effects in during Jacob’s transformation and have since added to it.
Makeup was changed also to make the Cullens more translucent, without appearing stark white.
Wig’s changed as well, but in limited ways since they were limited by what was all ready established in the first film. In Twilight Nikki bleached her hair, but for New Moon she is wearing a wig. Laurent’s wig was changed from synthetic to one made with real human hair.
Edward’s appartion was seen as a “flame” moving elegantly and fluidly. Chris gravitated toward this because it was like Edward was carrying a torch for Bella.
For 90% of the film Rob appears in the same suit he wore at Bella’s birthday party.
In all the “vision” sequences Edward is wearing the same outfit he does when he said “goodbye” to Bella because that is the last memory she holds of him.
Edward arrives in Italy wearing the SAME suit he’s worn for months. The pristine suit is now threadbare, the jacket is gone, his pants are dirty and his shoes are all scuffed up!
There is an original flashback to the meadow scene with changed “sparkle effect”
The film makers wanted to make a fresh interpretation of the “diamond guy” effect, similar to sunlight on snow.
“We decided to something based on the sparkle of this statuary marble from Thasos, a Greek Island, which I always kind of thought the author was going for with this vampire effect. It has a kind of crystalline structure, this diamond sparkle. Another inspiration was the way Tiffany lights its diamonds, how the multifaceted surface sparkles when light hits it. From that starting point, we then wanted to enhance those qualities with a slight translucency.”
The initial cut of the film was 3 hours. “I know Twilight fans will think Three hours of Edward and Bella and Jacob, that would be heaven, But the reality was it was too flabby. So we had to cut down the length, but it was never about cutting scenes, just cutting down the length of scenes.” Peter Lambert, editor
