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B L A C K M O N D A Y | P E R S P E C T I V E 7 1 The pilot trading floor was based on the NYSE trading floor. Three large "kiosks," which serve as the iconic armed towers, were built to display all the monitors that brokers use to make their trades. Using pictures as reference, Set Designer Camille Bratkowski made some fairly complex drawings of the towers, which included 127 CRT monitors. Chris Spellman had the ingenious idea to make boxes with transparencies for the monitors, suggesting, "It was a way to achieve the look we desired within the budget we had to work in." It turned out to be a very clever solution to a potentially expensive and complex problem. Set decorator Chris Marsteller acquired hundreds of touch-tone phones, which were mounted into custom phone booths to fill in the rest of the space, A. SERIES TRADING FLOOR BUILT ON STAGE 1 AT OCCIDENTAL STAGES. SET PHOTO. along with countless boxes of paperwork, binders and trading-related gak for the desks surrounding the kiosks. Propmaster Andy Siegel made up thousands of trading slips, which the background actors threw around the set—it all made for a pretty convincing trading floor. The Jammer Group bullpen—the scrappy trading firm where the 'heroes' of the show work—started as a cubicled office on the twelfth floor of the PSE. The built-in cubicles were removed, some glass block added, and the space repainted. Set decorator Chris Marsteller once again filled the office with a huge amount of clutter and debris. Period- appropriate desks were easily acquired from Dozar, who also supplied our personal office furniture.