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ends, though we did need to make adjustments and add or subtract elements based on what year the scene we were shooting was taking place. The studio where Bernstein wrote music had been remodeled by the family since his death, with the addition of a kitchen and living room area. So, we had to hide or remove elements in order to recreate what it looked like while Bernstein was living there. You could feel the ghosts or spirits of Lenny and Felicia in the house and in the gardens. The authenticity of their bohemian style was everywhere: Felicia's paintings hung on the walls throughout the house, along with artwork by their friends; the piano that Lenny got when he was a student was still in the living room of the main house. The home and its setting were just grand enough to convey that the owners were successful and monied, but also unpretentious and relaxed, signaling that its inhabitants were sophisticated and artistic. In the opening scene of the film, we see young Lenny waking up in an artist studio space that we built on a stage. The inspiration for the design came from the loft-like apartments on the upper floors of the building that houses Carnegie Hall that many now famous musicians and artists and photographers rented and lived in through the decades. Many of the studios had large angled skylights, open floorplans and raised loft areas which often served as sleeping areas. The elaborate one-shot camera move opens the movie cranes from the upper loft bedroom area down the stairs, through the studio area with Lenny's piano and desk, out of the apartment into the hallway, then through a door and into an upper tier box in the main auditorium of Carnegie Hall. To shoot this in one-shot required a clever design with wilding sections of walls and ceiling pieces that could fly away as the camera followed Bradley through the spaces and building a long section of hallway to connect the apartment to Carnegie Hall's upper tier at the end of the shot. The next home we see is where the young Lenny and Felicia first meet, the home of Felicia's piano teacher, Claudio Arrau (before he became a world- famous conductor), in Forest Hills, Queens. We found a house in Forest Hills Gardens that was very similar to the actual Arrau house that we'd researched and dressed it in a manner that evoked A. RESEARCH BOARD BY KEVIN THOMPSON. B. FAIRFIELD HOUSE. PHOTOSHOP ILLUSTRATION BY ALEX CHRYSIKOS. C. FAIRFIELD HOUSE. DIRECTOR'S PLAN BY BRETT MARTINEZ. VECTORWORKS. D. CARNEGIE APARTMENT AND HALLWAY. DIGITAL MODEL BY ALEX CHRYSIKOS. 3D STUDIO MAX. E. CARNEGIE APARTMENT. STAGE BUILD STEINER STUDIOS, BROOKLYN, NY. SET PHOTO. F. CARNEGIE APARTMENT. ILLUSTRATION BY ALEX CHRYSIKOS. G. CARNEGIE APARTMENT. SET PHOTO. H. CLAUDIO ARRAU'S HOUSE EXTERIOR. QUEENS, NY. SET PHOTO. I. FAIRFIELD HOUSE. BERNSTEIN STUDIO RECREATION. SET PHOTO. J. CLAUDIO ARRAU'S HOUSE LIVING ROOM. SET PHOTO. A B C