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L O C K E & K E Y | P E R S P E C T I V E 8 1 The main oorplan and second-oor bedroom layout was a big topic of discussion between Carlton, Meredith and me. There were many story points that involved a dance between rooms and oors. And there were plans to have a lot of continuous camera moves in this set, so tying the oorplan together was critical for those seamless shots. I worked closely with director Michael Morris and DP Tico Poulakakis, who directed and shot episodes one and two. We planned carefully on how we'd get oners done; what type of ooring we'd use, creating removable walls and bookshelves and other things to enable that uid movement. euences including the kids finding the music box, ina finding oe dead in his house and Bode rolling through the house on his wheelie shoes were all long uid shots that were possible because of that planning. Camera operator Gilles Corbeil and key grip Mitch Holmes shot the sequence with Bode on an airline wheelchair rig. There was a lot of focus on the kitchen and how it linked to the library, since so much time was spent there, and also, because the actors needed another access point to the second oor, the sets were designed so the kids could exit out of the kitchen instead of having to go to the front of the house to go upstairs. I'm a big fan of real ceilings in my sets—all of the Keyhouse sets have them. With a single oorplan for a house this large, it was a challenge to get natural light into the sets. In order to get light further into the set, I brought in some skylights in the kitchen and had a skylight in the main foyer linked with the second-oor landing. Other exciting design builds were the bottom of the well, Bode's Arcade, Kinsey's Candy Store and the garage set where the Savini squad has its moment with the boy in the lobster suit, which was a collaboration between me and Sean Sansom the show's prosthetics wiard. B. KEYHOUSE EXTERIOR. LOCATION BUILD. SET PHOTO. C. KEYHOUSE EXTERIOR. LOCATION AT NIGHT. SET PHOTO. D. LOBSTER SUIT. CONCEPT SKETCHES BY VINCENT PROCE. B C D