Fan effect on 'The Twilight Saga: New Moon' set revealed

'The Twilight Saga: New Moon' - Summit Ent.

The Twilight Saga: New Moon's filming process was definitely an experience for fans. "Looking into the fishbowl," as some have called it, was what fans did throughout the entire production process, and, apparently, Twilight series fans made quite a sting on the art department's progress - for better or for worse - in putting together the sets.
An art direction professional from New Moon and The Twilight Saga: Eclipse recounted his experience in preparing the set in December/January's issue of Perspective.
The author described, in detail, the experience of when the house belonging to "Jacob Black" was discovered.

I was a bit surprised when a woman pushing a baby carriage trundled up and said hello. “That’s for a movie, isn’t it?” she asked. ... As warmly as I could, I ducked; “Oh, you know, don’t you think someone could just get tired of green and decide to paint their place red?” She shot back, “Sure, but they wouldn’t keep painting over everything until it looked real old.  It’s Jacob’s house isn’t it?” ... She contended that my evasiveness -- in contradiction to the evidence in the meadow -- made it very likely that she had discovered a major Vancouver location for New Moon. Jacob’s house was a key venue in Twilight Saga novels by Stephenie Meyer, but had not appeared in the first movie -- so this was a big find. The fan sites were electrified. The next day another fan ... posted a drive-by video of the location with her voiceover explanation of why this was surely Jacob’s place.

In a backwards compliment, the narrator went on to explain that the savvy of Twilight fans was unstoppable and that we even outdid the lingering paparazzi.

Even the professional paparazzi (hanging off freeway abutments and hiking over cliffs to get shots) couldn’t get imagery posted any faster than the uber tracker fan-base. Oceans were not even a deterrent. Late in the production, I was building a fountain and dressing a public piazza in Tuscany for our last week of shooting. The fan machine was so hungry and efficient that they shot and posted every step of our construction, paint and dressing progress in that piazza so that when the art department in Vancouver came to work each day, they could scrutinize stills and video on public blogs showing precisely what had been accomplished by wrap time in Italy a few hours earlier.

Remember that? We all definitely watched from afar with heated anticipation as the sets were built, confirmed, and, eventually, used for production. Fansites from across the globe joined together to share their information. Particularly Twilighters Italia, Twilight Italia, and Twilight Fan-Zone. The art designer also reflected upon the fact that Bella and Edward's Italian kiss in the piazza was on YouTube before they'd even made the first cut. This, the speaker argues, is a cause for belief that the New Moon fanbase has created (or at least participated in) a new wave of instant media. Agreed, right? Among our many talents as fans, eh?
The fascinating feature is available in a readable format here.