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Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
The recently-released “Bee Movie” starring Jerry Seinfeld has an interesting take on set design.
One of the movie’s scenes includes a bee hive newscast.
The animators drew inspiration for their hive-housed news set by including a wide anchor desk with channel number on the front and a pop-up plasma screen that appears between the anchors.
The movie also makes use newscast-inspired reopen shots with the bee talent, as well as animated bee that named Larry King who looks oddly like the CNN Larry King — and is, in fact, voiced by King — the real one, that is. The animators even included King’s familiar world map background, which Seinfeld’s character references.
This cute, albeit non-human look at set design in the movies made us think of some other sets that appear on screen.
Spoiler warning: This post does reference movie plots, though we’ve made an effort not to give away any surprise endings where possible.
The recently-released “Bee Movie” starring Jerry Seinfeld has an interesting take on set design.
One of the movie’s scenes includes a bee hive newscast.
The animators drew inspiration for their hive-housed news set by including a wide anchor desk with channel number on the front and a pop-up plasma screen that appears between the anchors.
The movie also makes use newscast-inspired reopen shots with the bee talent, as well as animated bee that named Larry King who looks oddly like the CNN Larry King — and is, in fact, voiced by King — the real one, that is. The animators even included King’s familiar world map background, which Seinfeld’s character references.
This cute, albeit non-human look at set design in the movies made us think of some other sets that appear on screen.
Spoiler warning: This post does reference movie plots, though we’ve made an effort not to give away any surprise endings where possible.
