Filming at Nanaimo Lakes

Filming for The Twilight Saga: Eclipse has been a whole different ballgame as far as theTwilight saga films are concerned.

In some instances, there is more clarity – what with the inherent advantages of cast members and director David Slade being on Twitter and all – while in others, the whole process has been infinitely more mysterious. The pace has been rapid, it seems, and the amount of accounts and on-set photographs have been much more limited this time around.

One scene, however, did make it into the blogosphere. It was of newborn vampires emerging from the water in preparation for what must be the imminent havoc that they are to wreak upon the city of Seattle and the inhabitants (particularly the Cullen and La Push families) of Forks, Washington.

According to The Daily News, though, some filming was done in Nanaimo Lakes recently (absent the cast) that the production team isn’t spilling about. The scenes, it is reported, were visual effects shots. “Two of our cast members, Cameron Bright who plays Alec and Jodelle Ferland who plays Bree, have ties to Nanaimo, but were not involved in the scenes shot locally,” a production member stated.

One look at Nanaimo Lakes, and you might guess that the visual effects footage being done might have something to do with those newborn vampire scenes that were captured previously.

Unlike in The Twilight Saga: New Moon, when a water sequence is specifically prescribed by the book, Eclipse doesn’t have a lake scene, per se. That said, since the decision as to how to bring to life the newborn vampire back-story (as it, too, was not a feature in the first-person storyline inEclipse) involved a lake such as this, perhaps the footage in question is related in some way.

On the other hand, the mountainous nature of the lake area also lends favor to the idea that it may have something to do with the fight sequences that will involve Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, Boo Boo Stewart, Xavier Samuel, and Bryce Dallas Howard. In the book, Bella and Edward camp by a mountainside (with Seth Clearwater on guard) before they are attacked by Victoria and Riley.

Finally, it is always possible that, like with Twilight and New Moon, some overhead footage for introductory materials and scenic filler were being captured for the film

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