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departments, we ended up building a two-level set on stage. Bellevue, like many older hospitals, has physically evolved over the years, with new additions and retrofitted renovations of older setions. That loo was part of the initial concept of the series and was the starting point for all the interior designs of the hospital. The crew built in transitions within the hallways where the action can start in an older section of the hospital, dating from the 1920s and s and end up in a more reently renovated section or a new addition before going back down to another older section. The black and red tiles mentioned earlier help delineate these spaces as well and create visual breaks as the characters go from one hallway to another. Since the set is a two-level structure, we were able to include finished stairases that onneted the dierent oors as additional transition areas. hat was lost from the ings ounty loation were the long hallways that in some cases, connected one or more buildings within the hospital campus. The production had to build into the sound stage set the ability to add green screens at the ends of the hallways, allowing us to digitally extend the hallways beyond their physical length. By building this series of hallways and rooms, we built in eibility to move walls and reonfigure hallways internally to accommodate the range of departments, patient rooms, meeting rooms and oes within the hospital as needed. hile we were able to replicate some of the established loations from ings on stage we no longer had the eibility to adapt other spaes for swing sets as we had at ings ounty. o when building on stage we ept as muh eibility as struturally possible so as to accommodate swing sets as needed. By building these locations on stage, the production ould also better aommodate the filming company, which was always having to negotiate the logistis of filming not only on a loation but in a working hospital. The seond oor of the set featured a glassed- enclosed skywalk in the style of what exists at ings ounty ospital. laning eah side with roof deck overlooking Manhattan on one side and the East River on the other. The skywalk is connected to adjacent hallways and stairwells to create an egress through the set making it possible to play a ontinuous sene starting at one oor and ontinuing up or down a stairase to the other oor. This new stage set has also helped create a cohesive visual tie-in with the other existing sets from prior seasons and has contributed greatly to a consistency not only within the work of the Art Department but with that of lighting and cinematography. A. KING'S COUNTY HOSPITAL SKYLINK. LOCATION PHOTO. B. STAGE SKYLINK SET, BASED ON THE KING'S COUNTY HOSPITAL LOCATION. SET PHOTO. C. STAGE SKYLINK ROOFTOP FLANKING EACH SIDE OF THE SKYBRIDGE. SET PHOTO. D. STAGE HALLWAY SHOWING THE TRANSITION BETWEEN FOREGROUND OLD HALLWAY TO THE NEW HALLWAY IN THE BACKGROUND. SET PHOTO. E. STAGE HALLWAY. SET PHOTO. F. BEHAVIORAL PSYCHOLOGY DEPARTMENT HALLWAY. SET PHOTO. G. STAGE HALLWAY SHOWING THE TRANSITIONS BETWEEN NEW HALLWAYS (FOREGROUND) AND THE OLD HALLWAYS (BACKGROUND). SET PHOTO. H. & I. BEHAVIORAL PSYCHOLOGY DEPARTMENT OFFICE. SET PHOTOS. A B C