ADG Perspective

6 2 P E R S P E C T I V E | M A R C H / A P R I L 2 0 2 2 I'm very excited to share with you a glimpse into the world of Shining Vale. Reading the script for the pilot was one of those rare moments that, when finished, left me immediately clamoring for more. Je Astrof and Sharon Horgan had done it. As cocreators, they came together to write the perfect HORROMEDY... Whatever that is? I could not wait to get started. The story goes…Pat and Terry Phelps, along with their two teenage kids, cash in their life savings and move from their Brooklyn apartment to the Connecticut countryside. It's a lastditch eort to save their marriage and bring the family back together after Pat's wild aair with their handyman. hey buy an enormous old udor mansion for 20,000 below the asking price. A great deal on paper, but Pat, a writer working at home in her attic oce, senses that something is not right. Doors open and close on their own, the piano plays by itself, strange music comes from somewhere… Pat has increasingly strange and disturbing dreams, and when the stu of those dreams begins to cross over into reality, she becomes convinced that she's either severely depressed or has been possessed the symptoms are exactly the same. So, there you have it. I get to design an immense and mysterious centuriesold mansion in small town Connecticut. It was clear in the language of the script that this was not ust some big old house, and from my first conversations with Je Astrof, in his mind the house was to be ust as much a character as every other character in the story. There was a character arc for the house, and as the story progressed, the house would reveal its A S h i n i n g V a l e F O U R S T O R I E S O F H O R R O M E D Y B Y J E F F S C H O E N , P R O D U C T I O N D E S I G N E R

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