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62 P E R S P E C T I V E | N OV E M B E R / D E C E M B E R 2 0 1 5 - 4'-0" + 0 DOWN DOWN JACKSON F ire l an e Sunset Gower Studios, Stage 12, Int Jail Holding Cell & Hallway 125, 132, / Int Hospital Int Photo Studio 01/14/2015 Wild Counter Storage Area Counter Set #132 Jail Holding Cell & Hallway Set #144 Hospital Room New Wall Build as Tie Form Concrete Wall wardrobe wardrobe Counter Note: these sets are to be shot out and struck before redress space as CCB Vault Set #125 Photo ID Room Filing Cabinets Floor Grates 30' 20' 10' 5' Photo Backing Camera & Tripod Lights Bumper Wall Curtain New Build Prison Bar Wall Concrete Block Wall from Chop Shop - 4'-0" + 0 DOWN DOWN Fi rel an e Set #144 Hospital Room New Wall Build as Tie Form Concrete Wall Note: these sets are to be shot out before redress space as CCB Vault 30' 20' 10' 5' 0' Bumper Wall - 4'-0" + 0 DOWN DOWN JACKSON Fi rel an e Sunset Gower Studios, Stage 12, Basement Int Jail Holding Cell & Hallway 125, 132, 144 / Int Hospital / Int Photo Studio 01/14/2015 Wild Counter Storage Area Counter Set #132 Jail Holding Cell & Hallway Set #144 Hospital Room New Wall Build as Tie Form Concrete Wall wardrobe wardrobe Counter Note: these sets are to be shot out and struck before redress space as CCB Vault Set #125 Photo ID Room Filing Cabinets Floor Grates 30' 20' 10' 5' Photo Backing 0' Camera & Tripod Lights Bumper Wall Curtain New Build Prison Bar Wall Concrete Block Wall from Chop Shop After scouting the actual District Attorney's offices, I knew flat white Sheetrock was definitely not the look to support the narrative of this complex thriller. Most of the buildings I presented Billy were stone edifices constructed in the early 1920s. I was hoping to show the accumulation of time and bureaucracy with the furnishings, layers of remodeling and technological details to support the grave nature of the subject as well as to demonstratively show the slow wheels of justice. Billy and I landed on a bit more idealized, yet bureaucratic look than the real District Attorney, featuring substantial marble and dark warm woods. During the initial scouting, we had hoped to build the offices into the old Pacific Mutual Life Insurance complex at 6th and Olive Streets, to help with the budget and to take advantage of Drawing above: The initial layout of the Harmony Room rehearsal hall, showing sets nesting within sets to take advantage of as much square footage and location wall as possible. Drawing by Aaron Jackson. Top, left to right: The district attorney case file vault set. All the concrete block used as accents in lower floor sets was actually sheets of heavily textured and painted cardboard pulp, finished with a rich glaze. Another view of the case file vault set in the Harmony Room rehearsal hall. The brass doors at the back of the set are a modified photograph applied to a flat surface with added dimensional hardware. Opposite page, center, left to right: A Good Samaritan Hospital room circa 2002 built in the Harmony Hall basement space at Sunset Gower. Parole office sets were built into the Sunset Gower set dressing storage of the SCANDAL series in order to utilize adjacent hallways for a walk and talk. Bottom, left to right: More rehearsal hall sets: a hallway in the old Los Angeles County jail, and a jail cell set which was later converted into Ray's (Chiwetel Ejiofor) Met's Stadium office.