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Necessity can be a Mother Savannah has many virtues and graces, but it is a young market for the manufacture of media productions. Providing a sufficient number of experienced artisans to meet the needs for more than one production at a time remains a significant challenge for this evolving film community. Besides aviation, maritime shipping, military bases and tourism, Savannah is also the home to SCAD, the Savannah College of Art and Design, which is a magnet for many talented art and design students from all over the world. The Act had a late summer start-up, and my efforts at securing an experienced Georgia-based Art Department at that time was unsuccessful, so SCAD became the primary source for the small Art Department's hires. I'm a strong proponent for nurturing local talent even if it results in more work for me as the Art Department's senior mentor. I admit that this was an unorthodox approach, but given the production's challenging 28-day design-build schedule, and the studio's mandate to maximize local rebates, I felt that this was a chance worth taking. A lovely added benefit from this decision for both the Art Department and the company was the goodwill that we engendered C within Savannah's local creative community by being inclusive. I'm grateful and proud of the local team, one that consisted of recent SCAD graduates and former faculty. In the end, the quickly assembled Savannah-based Art Department was, as Mary Poppins would say, "Practically perfect in every way!" Also perfect was the exceptional set dressing crew, migrants all, they were by necessity mustered from up and down the Atlantic's Eastern Seaboard. The set decorator, Bryony Foster, was my most DATE: 08.31.2018 DRAFTED BY: RTT | AJ SCALE: 1/4" = 1'-0" Unless Noted REVISION 1: 09.05.18 REVISION 2: MM.DD.YY N.T.S. SIGN-OFF: TITLE: DeeDee and Gypsy House LOCATION 1L. a Screen Grabs. C. BACKLOT HOUSES UNDER CONSTRUCTION. D. SKETCHUP MODEL STUDY BY TYLER TUNNEY OF DEE DEE AND GYPSY'S HOUSE EXTERIOR. E. DEE DEE AND GYPSY'S HOUSE EXTERIOR. SET PHOTO. COURTESY OF NBC UNIVERSAL. F. SKETCHUP VIEWS BY HIND AL-SHANEEN OF ONE OF THE SHELL HOUSES FOR THE BACKLOT. E D F