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dressed town. We planned to dress the town twice during our shooting schedule, to enable four different directors a window to shoot their town scenes. A supermarket setting for the "Pickle Dad" sequence provided a fun backdrop for research and was created in an empty pharmacy in downtown Toronto. We unearthed some amazing late 1950s and very early 1960s supermarket photos in all their pastel colourways, evoking a perfect suburban America before the horror sequence starts to unfold. Once again, the graphics team spent a great deal of time recreating and building all the period- appropriate products. In IT: Chapter 2, the Losers Club built their clubhouse underground within an inward- looking bunker. The first episode of Welcome to Derry finds the new kids tracking the ever- constant flights of the USAF planes overhead from an elevated vantage point atop the town's water tower, called the Derry Standpipe. The clubhouse moved to an open viewing gallery that commanded great views of the whole town (aided by VFX). This edifice appeared in a cardboard model and a postcard in the first It film and is based on the Thomas Hill Standpipe in Stephen King's hometown of Bangor, Maine, just half a mile from his house. For filming, the crew built the set elevated to 18-feet, which accommodated a staircase scene, as well as space below to shoot another set. As with any story revolving around young teens, we had several scenes in the local Derry High School. Because the schedule spanned longer than just the summer months, our options were limited once school began, so we located an unoccupied high school in Hamilton. It had been shut down and stripped of any heat or water. Luckily, it still had electricity for the lights, and one small section of the school still had the original 8 x 8 inch linoleum flooring. Unluckily, that section was on the third floor, much to the grumbling of the shooting crew forced to carry all their equipment up the stairs. There was one scene of note; in Episode 7, when Pennywise appears on a stage set in the auditorium, we were able to create and hand-paint a theatrical scene based on engraved 19th century cavern depictions referencing the final cavern set built in It: Chapter 2. The other look of the town of Derry was all the different residential sets or locations we required A. CAPITOL THEATER LOBBY LOCATION BUILD IN PORT HOPE. SET PHOTO. B. CAPITOL THEATER PROJECTION ROOM. BUILD ON STAGE, CINESPACE STUDIOS SET PHOTO. C. SUPERMARKET. LOCATION BUILD IN EMPTY PHARMACY TORONTO SET PHOTO. D. HANLON HOUSE. BUILD ON STAGE, CINESPACE STUDIOS SET PHOTO. E. HIGH SCHOOL THEATER SET. DESIGN ELEVATIONS BY JEREMY GILLESPIE IN PHOTOSHOP/ ILLUSTRATOR AND ILLUSTRATED BY THERESA SHAIN IN PHOTOSHOP. F. HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM. PRODUCTION STILL. G. & H. STANDPIPE CLUBHOUSE GALLERY. BUILD ON STAGE, CINESPACE STUDIOS SET PHOTO. I. ROGAN APARTMENT. STAGE SET. SET PHOTO. J. PHIL MALKIN'S BEDROOM. STAGE SET. SET PHOTO. A B D C