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a layer of cutout banana plants all beautifully scenically painted, and all needed space to create the desired effect of depth—a complex puzzle to work out! He also found it hard to resist the urge to age and distress the set, as this would be typical when trying to give a set realism and believability, but no! Barbie's house remained bright, plastic fantastic and wonderfully pink. Transitions The transitions, or the transportation sequences, were a massive conversation. Always about the humor and the antithesis of a classic high-speed 'space movie' transition, here the film could use Greta's love of all the in-camera, almost theatrical conventions. When the story moves from Barbie Land in the real world, it should look like they are in a completely different movie; it looks as different as Kansas to Oz, except in reverse, the story starts in Oz technicolor and travels to Kansas, except the black-and-white is the almost comparatively monochrome Los Angeles. Under the charge of Art Director Katrina MacKay, the transportation sequences carry the characters between Barbie Land and the real word through six environments using six modes of transport. Each A. BARBIE'S DREAMHOUSE FRONT DOOR. SET PHOTO. B. OPEN ROAD BARBIE LAND PAINTED BACK CLOTH IN PROGRESS. SCENIC ARTIST STEVE MITCHELL. C. BOAT SEQUENCE SHOWING THE MULTI-LAYERED MOVEMENT DEVICES, RANGING FROM STATIC PAINTED SKY TO ROLLING WAVES, DIVING DOLPHINS, WATER SKIERS AND FLYING SEAGULLS. D. CAR SEQUENCE WITH FAST- MOVING F/G PLANTS AND GROUND, WHITE LINES BEING PULLED THROUGH UNDER THE CAR, THE THREE BACKGROUNDS MOVING AT RELATIVELY DECREASING SPEEDS. E. ROCKET SEQUENCE. SPACE MOVES VERY SLOWLY BUT THE PLANETS SPAN AND COMETS FLEW BY. F. BIKE SEQUENCE WITH DIFFERING SPEEDS OF BACK- GROUND, THE SAILS OF THE WINDMILLS TURNING AND THE BALLOONS ASCENDING,IN THE FOREGROUND THE CONVEYOR WITH SPEEDING TULIPS. G. KEN'S MOJO DOJO CASA HOUSE. H. KEN'S MOJO DOJO CASA HOUSE SET PHOTO. KEN'S CHAOS REIGNS SHOWING THE BROKEN PALM TREE AND THE BARBIE CORVETTE CAR PAINTED GRAY. B A C D E F