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"Behind the scenes of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn\u2014Part 1\nProduction designer Richard Sherman chats with AD about the sets for the fourth movie in the vampire series, starring Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, and Taylor Lautner\u2014with a cameo appearance by a house featured in our January 2011 issue\nEdward's sisters, Alice (Ashley Greene) and Rosalie (Nikki Reed), help Bella (Kristen Stewart) prepare for her wedding in Alice's bedroom, one of the new sets created for Breaking Dawn\u2014Part 1. Production designer Richard Sherman says for this movie subtle changes to the decor in the Cullen house kept the same tone but made it \"a lot prettier.\"\nHere, Alice and soul mate Jasper (Jackson Rathbone) are seated with their adoptive\u2014and ageless\u2014vampire parents, Esme (Elizabeth Reaser) and Dr. Carlisle Cullen (Peter Facinelli), at the nuptials on moss-covered benches amid a cascade of white flowers.\nThe best part of working on the movie? \"We got to travel all over the place,\" says Sherman. \"It was like being paid to go on vacation.\" For a scene during Edward and Bella's honeymoon, the crew blocked off a street in Rio's bustling Lapa district, which led to complaints from residents.\nSherman and his team re-created Edward and Bella's fictional honeymoon destination, Isle Esme, on Saco do Mamangu\u00E1, 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.\nA number of the scenes that take place inside the Brazil beach house were actually shot on sets\u2014a bedroom, bathroom, and courtyard\u2014built 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.\"\nPivoting 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.\nEdward and Bella play chess on the terrace with neighboring islands in the background. \"The view from the house became a problem with the studio because that's not how Stephenie described it,\" Sherman recalls. Meyer was persuaded to keep the natural surroundings in the scene instead of the empty horizon she described in the book.\nAnother sticking point was the verdant yard. \"Bill Condon, the director, really wanted a sandy beach,\" Sherman says. \"I tried to explain to him that most Brazilian beach houses don't have that. But he insisted, so we covered the whole front of the property in sand.\"\nCondon directs Stewart and Pattinson between takes of a scene shot in the bedroom of the Isle Esme house, one of the sets built in Louisiana.\nSherman also gave the Volturi castle\u2014home to Aro (Michael Sheen, center) and Caius (Jamie Campbell Bower)\u2014a new look for Breaking Dawn\u2014Part 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."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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