filming: environment manipulation techniques

[DestroyedMatter]

I was watching training day today and realised that all the scenes where they are driving in the streets the streets are wet.

they did that for a reason like giving the audience the feel of something like "its very easy to slip and fall"

what other things like this have you realized in movie film techniques.

[Jive Talka]

I have a feeling they wet down the streets in order to give the neighborhoods a dirty or gritty look, given the tone of the film. Wetting a street downs so the audience will subconsciously be afraid of slipping seems like some pretty arbitrary mise-en-scene to me, even by film making standards.

That aside, the "Corner Store Long Takes" from Shaun of the Dead will always been my favorite bit stage setting.