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Category Archives: Behind The Scenes
The Portable Avonlea Flag Stop
April 4, 2013/
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Road to Avonlea scripts often required characters to travel by train but going to the various train station locations all the time just wasn’t practical. With that in mind, the production design team crafted the Avonlea Flag Stop.
The Amazing Avonlea Extras
April 2, 2013/
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Extras (or Background Performers) are perhaps the unsung heroes of film and television productions and they played a vital role in Road to Avonlea.
Spirit of Place
March 27, 2013/
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Admittedly, Kevin Sullivan knew very little about Anne of Green Gables before embarking upon making the movie but he found inspiration in a wonderful book called Spirit of Place.
The Incredible Camera Department
March 20, 2013/
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Road to Avonlea is known for it’s high production value and beautiful cinematography and much of that is thanks to the talented and dedicated Camera Departments that worked on each episode.
Ice Fishing… Without the Ice
March 6, 2013/
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One of my favourite Road to Avonlea scenes is in “Friends and Relations” when Alec decides to take a polar bear swim while ice fishing… but if definitely wasn’t as cold as it looked.
The Destruction of the Avonlea Backlot
March 5, 2013/
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It’s said that “all good things must come to an end” and sadly the Avonlea Backlot is a perfect example of that.
Lights, Cameras and “I do’s”
March 4, 2013/
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Much like a real wedding, filming wedding scenes like Gus and Felicity’s on Road to Avonlea requires a lot of planning and there are always some interesting challenges.
The Joys of Indoor Plumbing
Unless you do a lot of camping, chances are you’ve rarely had to go without indoor plumbing like they did on Road to Avonlea but it wasn’t that long ago that flushing a toilet was considered a luxury.
The Avonlea Village Base Camp
A film crew is basically a small army and every army needs a base camp… even in Avonlea.
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