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Question about sets and locations

posted 14 years ago by seville08
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I have watched many novelas in my lifetime and have always wondered about the sets. Usually we see exterior shots of beautiful homes and haciendas, and I wonder of the interior scenes are filmed inside these homes and haciendas or are they sets. I loved Paloma's house in En Nombre del Amor and wondered if it was a real house or a set.

I have seen the same exterior shots in different novelas but the insides are completely different. For example, the houses in Alborada and Mundo de Fieras looked exactly the same from the outside, yet they were different inside. Scenes were shot out in front, therefore we can't say thay they just showed us a view of the house. Was this a real house, or a set? There was the same lake and bridge in front, too. The house in Sortilegio was painted differently but looked very similar. It, too, had the lake and bridge.

Lucrecia's house looks beautiful on the outside, but I wondered it it was real or not.

[–] Venus-25 14 years ago

I've been watching novelas since 1993 and been wondering the same thing. I am inclined to think that they use real haciendas because they look too elaborate and complete to be temporary sets. If you remember the mansion from Amigas y Rivales with its split-level pool I would think that this was real, as this would be horrendously expensive to build.

A long time ago at a Dark Shadows convention we were shown a film about Seaview Terrace, the house that was supposed to be Collinwood. The interior (which was a series of sets in a studio builing in Manhattan) was planned to match the exterior of this building. There was one mistake in the interior design, but I no longer remember what it was.

I really wish Televisa would be the next network to do this story, but I digress.

You might want to think about whether the interior matches the exterior in each case. Since I've been out of work I've watched some episodes twice to make sure I catch all the dialogue; here's something else I can look for.

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