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I G H J The exterior of the house was decided on after the stage set was built and it was largely found due to its location in a little village in Czech Republic. Unfortunately it was not great because it was a modernised building on a traditional style street, so a façade was built on the building front to suit the style of Jojo's family home. Taika had planned many of the action sequences as storyboards, and some sequences were done in previs to work out loose timing, but it mostly came down to what the kids were comfortable doing on the day of shooting, if they were on form, they would do a lot of running around…if they were tired, the action would switch to something more basic. Almost all of the environments had artwork and plans to describe options for where scenes could take place. In all sixty pieces of concept art were generated and plans for twenty-two location builds were developed. Many scenes combined both special eff ects and visual eff ects to achieve the fi nal result. Although the street battle scenes where almost completely in camera environments, visual eff ects added faraway smoke and sometimes a passing airplane to help the battle expand. In one scene, a storefront is blown up, visual eff ects laid in the smoke trail of a rocket so the timing of the explosion could be perfect. The scene where Jojo says good-bye to Hitler, who is then yanked out of the room, was a fun new detail added late on a Friday night for a Monday shoot. It was to be done practically, with the special eff ects department building a breakaway window I. JOJO'S HOUSE EXTERIOR. ELEVATIONS. DRAWN BY MARIE STRNADOVA. J. JOJO'S HOUSE EXTERIOR. IN PROGRESS. F