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pulled from a wide range of sources and virtually none of it was historic or from other Westerns. Once these ideas had some visual "legs" beneath them, I began the brilliant Illustrator and longtime trusted collaborator, Jamie Rama. We started by laying in some of the color palettes Roy and I had found over the location photos I had taken in the spring. It was clear that if I was going to use a wide variety of hues with a high chromatic measure, the value would need to darken. The brighter and lighter hues did not work at all. Once we had a toe hold into the visual vernacular, I needed to take a step back and establish the structure of the fi lm in terms of crew, locations and budget. This was a critical and intense time. My brilliant and godsend of a Supervising Art Director, Greg erry, and I opened o ces in snowy, cold, anta Fe on Dec. 9, 2019, to begin shooting on March 16, 2020. Little did we know this would be a date that would change history. Blind to our future, several things needed to occur concurrently and very quickly. Greg and I needed to land on a design and construction budget and schedule while, at the same time, I needed to get my head around the design and execution of a uniuelooking, complicated, period fi lm. ur intuition, instincts and experience were called to task. We needed to defi ne the budgets and schedules for production while still protecting the vision in terms of all the design elements that, at that point, I had not begun. We had a new, extremely talented, and D. EXTERIOR REDWOOD MAIN STREET. PRODUCTION STILL. E. MAYOR'S MANSION. ELEVATIONS BY GREG PAPALIA. D E