I came across a small snippet of information today, which whilst not immensely discussion worthy, I still thought it was perhaps worth sharing. At the very least it is an intriguing window onto the production and a hint at some of the visuals we may be seeing in the final movie:
This comes from the resume of Bree Billington, a member of the Art Department on VDT, whom briefly describes some of the work she was involved with:
Art Department, Narnia, Gold Coast, QLD 2009
Library set, 1000’s of books! Painting, binding, aging.
http://www.crewtube.com.au/Crew/Crew%20 ... _Dec09.pdf
I suppose its conceivable that the "Library Set" could be for somewhere in the real world or on the Lone Islands, but i would perhaps most logically assume it was for Coriakin's House? The description for his room in the book is as follows:
It was a large room with three big windows and it was lined from floor to ceiling with books; more books than Lucy had ever seen before, tiny little books, fat and dumpy books, and books bigger than any church Bible you have ever seen, all bound in leather and smelling old and learned and magical. But she knew from her instructions that she need not bother about any of these. For the Book, the Magic Book, was lying on a reading-desk in the very middle of the room.
Sounds like a pretty good match for her description of "1000's of books. Painting, binding, aging" to me. Although there isn't any more information than that, its certainly enough to get my imagination running wild as to how spectacular the final thing will look Though if not, there was a very very tiny piece of concept art, presumably created for VDT very early on in the production that was featured on the Prince Caspian Monopoly game board, that also seems to show a very grandiose Library for Coriakin:
#2: The Rose Garden Set
In case you missed it in the VDT Extras Casting thread, there was a bizzare casting detail of an actress playing an Extra in the "Rose Garden Scene":
Shannon Brierley - "Extra in the Rose Garden Scene"
2009 / Extra in the Rose Garden Scene / Narnia- Voyage of the Dawn Treader / Michael Apted
At the time, LucyP theorised that the "Rose Garden" may be Coriakin's Garden, but i wasn't too sure that the set of Coriakin's Garden we saw contained any flowers at all, and none of us could think why Coriakin's Garden would require its own specific extras who weren't Dufflepuds or Ship Crew Members. Anyway, i don't think we got any further than that in speculating.
There was also a Gardening & Landscaping company that mentioned on their website that they were involved with Voyage of the Dawn Treader. And considering that the Coriakin's Garden set didnt actually seem to have any real plants or greenery in it, i might assume it was this "Rose Garden Scene" that they worked on?
http://jacksgreens.com.au/index.php?pr=Home_Page
#3: Moroccan Lamps
Thirdly, something i came across a while back - a company in Australia which seems to specialise in Moroccan furniture mentioned in one of their newsletters that some of their moroccan lamps would be featured in the movie "Dragon's Prow", which as we all know is one of the code names used for VDT:
The Ed Hardy stores in Kuala Lumpur, Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide have chosen Metroscope's Moroccan lanterns for their decor.
More of our lanterns will be seen in the upcoming movie Dragon's Prow.
Pairing that information with what we've seen of Governor Gumpas' outfit, which many noted seem to be slightly Calormene in design, i would perhaps assume that some of the Lone Islands culture may have been designed with a Moroccan influence?
http://www.metroscope.com.au/index.php? ... &Itemid=51