Behind the Scenes:
Beauty and the Beast
When they are doing the snow scene, they have the main set up with a "blue screen" and snow falling, which must have took a lot of preproduction to make the decision on how they were gonna make it fall and how much they were gonna need for it to constantly fall, because nothing would be worse then having to stop a shoot because the snow ran out. Then we see the behind the scenes of the singing, with all the characters in the studio separately recording the songs, and how many takes it takes to get it right, and the amount of feedback they get back. I also notice how much they are still in character when recording, so that when it flashes back to how it looks in the movie and the amount of effort it takes to turn a song into a show.
The a lot of what this video shows is the main set, and if you look at anything that is not what you're supposed to be looking at, you can see small things that really help the shooting happen. Like in the first couple second we see this big crane that is moving the camera to get a moving shot of Belle walking. We see a lot of green screen to add those finishing touches. On second 41 we see a boom-mic but more importantly we see someone behind the man with the camera, walking him making sure he doesn't run into anything. As well as someone holding a mirror and getting the perfect light as she's walking so he's walking besides her. We also just see so many small parts, like the women holding the horses when the director talks to the actor. When Belle is in the castle, they have the dressers and such move electronically, and add the graphics in the post production.
in sone of the scenes, the rioters are rioting and they are dealing with real fire, you see a couple people walking around holding buckets that they set the touches in to put out the fire safely, as well as how careful they are to put them in the basket to not damage any of the set. They put the fire out carefully one by one.
This second video gets more detail in "behind the scenes" It talks about the small down in London they set up in where they had everything, the set, the dance studio, the recording studio. Only 2 of the days that it took to film did they spend outside of their set up, in which was in a near by forest. It says here the most difficult design process was Belles dress because they had gone through soo many designs and models until they got what they thought was the perfect dress. A lot of this movie was animations with the moving objects that come to life. So I can imagine the amount of work this movie took in the post production.