Question

Think about a movie or a play that you’ve seen recently. What did you notice about the set design? Write two or three paragraphs describing the set design and what effect it had on the movie.

Answer 1

Joel Schumacher’s 2002 movie “Phone Booth” is set in New York City. There are a few minutes of Times Square to establish the locale; however, the phone booth is the main set for this film. It is in this phone booth that the lead actor played by Colin Farrell spends nearly the entire movie. The premise is that he is pinned down in the phone booth by an unseen sniper. While in the movie the phone booth where Farrell’s character is trapped is at 53rd Street and 8th Avenue, it was really constructed on West Fifth Street at South Spring Street in Los Angeles, not in New York City.

The scenes shot inside the phone booth took 10 days to shoot. The rest of the scenes that included exterior shots of the booth's surroundings took only two days to shoot. Despite the limited sets used in this movie, it is very riveting.

While the phone booth was like any other, in many shots a piece of graffiti is shown tagged on the booth. The graffiti is an advertisement for the OBEY skateboarding clothing brand. When I noticed and identified the graffiti, I thought the connection with the OBEY brand is interesting because one of the film’s main themes is obedience.

Answer 2

Answer: Twilight is a 2008 American romantic fantasy film based on Stephenie Meyer's 2005 novel of the same name. Directed by Catherine Hardwicke, the film stars Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson. It is the first film in The Twilight Saga film series. This film focuses on the development of the relationship between Bella Swan (a teenage girl) and Edward Cullen (a vampire), and the subsequent efforts of Edward and his family to keep Bella safe from a coven of evil vampires.

The project was in development for approximately three years at Paramount Pictures, during which time a screen adaptation that differed significantly from the novel was written. Summit Entertainment acquired the rights to the novel after three years of the project's stagnant development. Melissa Rosenberg wrote a new adaptation of the novel shortly before the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike and sought to be faithful to the novel's storyline. Principal photography took 44 days and was completed on May 2, 2008; the film was primarily shot in Oregon.

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