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CITAZIONESteveston Village was transformed into the fairy tale town of Storybrooke for the filming of ABC's TV show "Once Upon A Time".
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CITAZIONEThey turned the Cannery Cafe in Steveston into Granny's Diner for the TV show Once Upon A Time.
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This is great stuff! Many thanks, Aleki, for posting all of these interesting pics and the background information on Steveston, B.C. I am getting an education about film companies' transformations on location shooting. So much work is involved...it has the optimistic feeling that ABC is going all out for OUAT. 
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Once Upon a Time On Location in Vancouver
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Moncton becomes main street for ABC's Once Upon a Time
It’s not every day Snow White strolls through Steveston wearing jeans—but it could become a regular sight.
On Tuesday film crews transformed Moncton Street into the fictional New England town of Storybrooke, a set in the new ABC TV series Once Upon a Time. The heavily-hyped fantasy-drama is the brainchild of Lost executive producers Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis, and premieres Oct. 23.
A day after filming, crews removed props, took down signs and restored Moncton Street to its roots. But if the series is a success, they’ll return regularly. Producers have already committed to shooting intermittently here through to Christmas.
According to Sandi Swanigan, co-ordinator of the city’s film office, Once Upon a Time has the potential to become Steveston’s Smallville—another TV series that filmed in Cloverdale for six years.
“Steveston’s so attractive because it plays really well, there’s not a lot of high buildings and the people are really friendly,” she said.
Location managers are also drawn to the village because it can also easily take on an East Coast or small-town California look.
Producers filmed portions of the pilot episode in Steveston in March.
This week Moncton Street’s Splash Toy Shop was transformed into a “five and dime” store, Steveston Marine and Hardware became Storybrooke Hardware and Paint and Nikka Fishing and Marine was completely boarded up. At the Gulf of Georgia Cannery, the high-flying Canada flag was temporarily removed to avoid country confusion in background shots.
Once Upon a Time chronicles the lives of fairy tale characters who are stuck in the real world without knowledge of who they really are. The story centres around Emma, believed by her son to be the missing daughter of Snow White and Prince Charming.
Filming is also taking place elsewhere in Metro Vancouver. It stars Ginnifer Goodwin and Lana Parrilla.
Swanigan said if the series makes a long-term commitment to Steveston, the benefits are many—especially outside summer months when tourism drops off. An example came in March when crews were filming in poor weather and spent tens of thousands of dollars with merchants, some of whom were asked to change their storefronts or were bought out for the day.
That day crews also contributed $1,000 to a local tsunami relief fundraiser organized by Janet Yau. Swanigan said they’re also known to buy gift certificates from merchants to hand out to shoppers who may be inconvenienced by the filming.
Also filming in Steveston is the TV teen drama The Secret Circle, set to air on The CW, a U.S. cable network, in September.
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#YVRShoots – Once Upon A Time in Steveston Village
POSTED August 5, 2011 BY Susan Gittins
This series had its genesis when I began photographing Vancouver area location shoots last summer to get over a long post-Olympics funk. Film and TV productions like This Means War, Mission Impossible 4, Fringe and the new AMC series The Killing showcase our city in similar fashion and sometimes put a celebrity actor or two in the frame.
New American TV series Once Upon a Time is about two parallel worlds: one set in fairy tales and another set in a New England town, with the more-than-100-years-old Steveston village standing in for Storybrooke, Maine. On Monday night last week, crew transformed Morton Street in Steveston for filming the next day: boarding up and plastering newspapers on the windows of Nikka Fishing & Marine to make it look like a derelict Storybrooke Free Public Library; putting their own weathered signage like Storybrooke Hardware and Paint over Steveston Marine & Hardware on the side of a building; and erecting several other dirtied-up signs like Purbeck Shoe Store on the Steveston Drugs brick heritage building. This was all done to film scenes of Once Upon a Time lead Jennifer Morrsion (Cameron of House) walking on the boardwalks and crossing back and forth across Morton Street for the second episode of the series.
The magical story of Once Upon a Time apparently begins in the pilot with the grand wedding of Prince Charming, played by Josh Dallas (Thor), and Snow White, played by Ginnifer Goodwin (Big Love), in a distant fairy tale world — filmed this spring in Vancouver with greenscreens and 200-plus costumed extras. Meantime, in the parallel world of present-day reality their daughter Emma Swan, played by Jennifer Morrison, has grown up without knowing her fairy tale parents, which goes a long way to explaining her profession as a kick-ass bail bonds collector in Boston. Things change when Henry, the son Emma gave up for adoption a decade earlier, finds her and begs her to come back with him to Storybrooke where he says fairy tale characters have been cursed to spend their lives in the real world without getting happy endings or even knowing their true identities. She drives there with Henry, played by Jared Gilmore, in her yellow VW bug, where she meets some strangely familiar people and decides to stay awhile.
No one outside of production caught a glimpse of Once Upon a Time filming the fairy tale world scenes of the pilot, but a small crowd of people did watch Jennifer Morrison do ayellow-VW-bug-driving-scene on Seymour Street downtown in late March and then in early April a smaller crowd watched her yellow-VW-bug arrival in Steveston as Storybrooke.
Created by Lost writers Eddy Kitsis and Adam Horowitz, Once Upon a Time should know how to mix reality and fantasy and cross between the two. The pilot cuts back and forth between the parallel worlds of Storybrooke and the Enchanted Forest and there’s even a few subtle nods to Losties, like the clock tower above the library in Storybrooke has stopped at exactly 8:15 in the pilot.
Once Upon a Time’s cast seems positively giddy about their good fortune, sharing much of their adventure in regular tweets. For example, in early July when Ginnifer Goodwin packed up her belongings in a U-Haul to drive up here, she tweeted: “In answer to the queries, the Fun Army & I en route to our new lives in Vancouver where we’ll film Once Upon a Time!” A few wrong turns put her a day behind and so she missed the big gala dinner in L.A. for William & Kate. Instead she spent that day in her new home watching “smart boys” set up Wii and looking out at the “GORG” view of the mountains.
Greg Beeman, an executive producer of sci-fi smash Falling Skies, also arrived early in Vancouver to prep for directing Once Upon a Time’s second episode. Filming started on Tuesday, July 19th, with a return to Kerrisdale School (featured in the pilot), with Ginnifer Goodwin in her real world role as Henry’s teacher. Jennifer Morrison appeared in some scenes at that two-day shoot, as did Robert Carlyle of Stargate Universe fame. Carlyle plays Mr. Gold ( the man who bascially owns Storybrooke) in the real world and Rumplestiltskin in the enchanted one.
That weekend, the Once Upon a Time cast headed down to San Diego Comic-Con, where eTalk’s Lainey Lui interviewed Jennifer Morrison, Ginnifer Goodwin and Josh Dallas about the new show. Morrison talked about using the beauty of Canada to serve the fairy tale world, especially our forests. And all three raved about their Vanocuver crew. Post-media gauntlet, the Once Upon a Time cast were overwhelmed by fans at a packed screening of the pilot, followed by a panel moderated by Lost co-creator himself Damon Lindelof.
And then the Fun Army headed back to Vancouver where Once Upon a Time crew had been busy transforming Steveston’s Morton Street into Storeybrooke, parking a Storybrooke Sheriff’s car by the now derelict library and several older cars along the street. Everything had to be a bit ramshackle, even the bikes, to depict a place frozen in time. I photographed most of it but missed one wonderful piece of set decoration spotted by someone else: a Storybrooke Daily Mirror news box with a front page mug shot of Jennifer Morrison as Emma and the headline: “Stranger Destroys Historic Sign. Alcohol Involved.”
Once Upon a Time’s day in Steveston last week started around 8 a.m. so I missed early scenes. I arrived before noon to see extras loitering on the boardwalks outside the fake storefronts, waiting for star Jennifer Morrison to do her tough chick scene of Emma walking angrily from the newly-lush garden patio of the Copper Cafe turned Granny’s Diner to her yellow VW bug parked outside Storybrooke Country Bread, to toss her signature red leather jacket into the car. During rehearsals, the assistant director asked crew to find something to park in front of two local black SUVs which looked too modern for frozen-in-time Storybrooke.
Why is Jennifer Morrison’s Emma so angry? Well how would you feel finding out you’re the “chosen one”, fated to save everyone from a curse wrought by the Evil Queen, played by Lana Parrilla. A couple of hours after watching Morrison stomp across Morton Street, I spied Parrilla in her real world role as the Mayor of Storybrooke and Henry’s adoptive mother, wearing a dress, white raincoat and black heels (see below) outside the derelict public library. She didn’t look too scary in person, but I haven’t seen as her in costume as the Evil Queen yet.
Around 4 p.m., Jared Gilmore arrived on set to do two or three hours of walking scenes with Jennifer Morrison, who had retrieved her red leather jacket from the car. Mother and given-up-for-adoption son started near Storybrooke Country Bread and later moved east to the actual Steveston Coffee Co (as itself), walking back and forth across Morton Street and along the boardwalks.
At dusk, crew hoisted a big film light above Steveston to shine down on the fake Storybrooke storefronts. Twenty minutes later, a watertruck sprayed the street to sharpen the colours and shapes at night. Jared Gilmore, meanwhile, was acting his age, running around with a nerf gun shooting people and even taking a turn in the camera operator’s chair for what would be a tracking shot of him and Jennifer Morrison walking out of the fake Modern Fashions storefront and down the boardwalk. The actual filming of the scene took only ten to fifteen minutes after hours of set-up. Hearing the words “OK that’s a wrap guys” a backpack-wearing extra outside Storybrooke Country Bread shouted “Oh Hell Yeah” and a nearby production assistant punched her arm in the air. While Steveston is a lovely place to hang out, it had been a long 13-hour-plus day when the lights went out at 9:40 p.m.
A few days after the Steveston shoot, Josh Dallas flew into Vancouver for the July 29th start of episode three of the series, tweeting: “First day back on #OnceUponaTime and #OnceUponaTimeTeam”. Jennifer Morrison retweeted, adding “Yah! We missed u.” The main cast spent the Saturday of the August long weekend doing a poster shoot and this week found themselves back on location for some enchanted forest scenes. Dallas tweeted a photo of from his trailer of lush green mountain peaks.
Once Upon a Time did film behind Capilano College yesterday so perhaps North Vancouver forests are to be the Enchanted Forest of the series, but one thing this area doesn’t lack is lots and lots of trees. I would be thrilled to photograph the cast and extras in their fairy tale garb whichever forests they choose to film in wherever they are. Of course, one place we know we can find Once Upon a Time is Steveston, maybe as soon as next week. This charming village is going to be a recurring backdrop throughout the series.
Once Upon a Time is set to air on Sundays at 8 p.m. on ABC and 7 p.m. on CTV, starting October 23rd.
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From Josh Dallas's twitter: #OnceUponATime http://t.co/7PuUCYK 
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Storybrooke - Steveston on 2011, Aug. 17 and 18
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CITAZIONE@nickgorgopa
Filming in Steveston #OnceUponATime #WheresCameron http://yfrog.com/z/mnl50ufj
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Spoiler!!Once Upon a Time on set - Fort Langley the week of Oct 5th 2011
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Jared Gilmore and Lana Parilla Filming Once Upon a Time In Steveston as Storybrooke Near Vancouver 
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Jared Gilmore and Guest Star Eion Bailey Filming Once Upon a Time in New Westminster Near Vancouver
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Actors Jared Gilmore, Eion Bailey and Lana Parrilla film scenes for "Once Upon A Time" in Vancouver. (October 21, 2011)
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@iBrockley RT @thewxh: @olv #OUAT (Once Upon a Time) will be shooting at #Steveston (Moncton Street) //today
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What happened to Henry's castle on #OnceuponaTime?
Damage from wicked wind or Evil Queen? www.flickr.com/photos/susangittins/6341139537/
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@Aleki77 Filming tomorrow. I guess they'll repair it in the morning??
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Tomorrow once upon a time cast will filming at Henry's Castle
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