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With all the locations locked, one week before I started with my team on preproduction, COVID-19 hit the world, and everything unexpectedly shut down. It was a hard time to put the pencil down! In July, there was a sudden window of opportunity when actors' schedules opened up. Being among the fi rst studiobacked fi lms to commence production during the height of the pandemic took incredible commitment, communication and courage from all team members. With only a fi veweek preproduction window, shooting logistics and COVID protocols were daily conversations with producers Sara Murphy and Adam Somner. We could not have made this fi lm without the support of our vendor network, who opened their doors during lockdown for us. Life imitated art, like Licorice Pizza; we put our heads down during a crisis and made lemonade out of lemons. High School he opening scene was fi lmed at Portola Middle School, built in the 1950s in Tarzana, CA. This location inspired the script when Paul saw a irtatious couple in a line of students for photo day. Being a Southern California student, walking through the open-air single-vaulted corridors of this location took me back to my childhood. The school kept its original metal lockers, green grass quad's with sprinklers, rose gardens and gym. The production restored period fi xtures and stalls in A. INTERIOR TEENAGE FAIR. PHOTOSHOP ILLUSTRATION BY ALISTAIR MILNE B. TEENAGE FAIR. SET PHOTO BY ACE EURE. C. COLOR AND MOOD INSPIRATION BOARD BY FLORENCIA MARTIN. B C