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the letters on the glass. The set's very Escher, it has no right angles. I had all the walls leaning in, so there was always a weight pushing down on Helly. The text projection was practical, as was most of the show. I like to give the director the ability to shoot without being compromised about camera angles, or anything else. I also think doing things practically is important for the actors. Founder Spaces Lumon was founded by Kier Eagan in 1866 and has been run by his descendants ever since. There are areas devoted to the Lumon founders, including a display of lifelike statues of each Eagan. Dan, Ben and I decided to do something like the Disneyland US Presidents exhibit. There's also a perfect replica of Kier's house and front yard. When the show was scouting remotely, there was a museum in the Bronx that had an amazing Brutalist building, a beautiful grassy area and a vintage house that we referenced. Hallways The production had two soundstages with white Lumon hallways. The first had at least a hundred feet of hallways, as well as the MDR, the break room, the boardroom and the staircase. There were two main hallways that were a hundred forty feet long, with intersections. The hallway walls and corners were completely changeable. Sometimes an end was removed and VXF would do a set extension, so it could look like it was five hundred feet long. There were doors that are interchangeable and glass walls that were inserted to see into the conference rooms. Elevator The hardest set was probably the elevator, which is shoulder-width wide. When the face of an actor is seen in the elevator, it's shot with a robotic camera on a robotic arm that travels about thirty feet in less than a second, just enough to alter the parallax of their faces to the background. The elevator exists as both part of a hallway set and a separate set that breaks apart in pieces, because the camera's got to wrap around it. C. BREAK ROOM. ILLUSTRATION, BY ERIC FEHLBERG, USING SKETCHUP AND KEYSHOT. D. PERPETUITY WING. ILLUSTRATION BY DAVID SWAYZE. C D