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5 8 P E R S P E C T I V E | J U L Y / A U G U S T 2 0 1 8 enough. I wish there was an ADG Award for props. He'd have a lot of them. Set decorator Halina Siwolop continued the great work started by Ide Foyle in Vancouver. Halina and I have worked together on many shows. She does kooky well. We mixed modern with antique furniture, and used lots of wallpaper and very graphic carpets. The idea continues that the audience is being deceived into thinking they are somewhere they may not be, and challenges them to recognize it as something familiar. This was accomplished in different ways. I like to do obsessive collections of things. If two Lladro figurines are good, 136 of them are better. Way better. (To be fair, I don't think Halina would allow Lladro on the set. She has standards.) But this was done with lots of things: pictures, taxidermy, pottery, etc. Another trick was to use familiar things in familiar places. This can trick an audience who, at this point, is expecting something else. In an interrogation room, even though it was built upside down, standard interrogation room dressing, a tank table and chairs, were used. Lying to one's audience is not a new thing in Hollywood. Manipulation is the norm. ADG A C A. CONCEPT ILLUSTRATION FOR SURVEILLANCE DRONES BY LAURENT BEN- MIMOUN B. IN THE QUEST TO HAVE THE AUDIENCE CONTINUALLY ASK "IS THIS REAL" THE PROP DEPARTMENT MADE A GUN FROM FOUND OBJECTS. C. THE BONGS THAT ARE USED ON THE SHOW ARE ALL SHAPED LIKE ANIMALISTIC GARDEN STATUARY. THE FROGS WERE MADE FROM A MOLD PULLED DIRECTLY FROM A CEMENT GARDEN STATUE. IT WAS HOLLOWED-OUT IN ORDER TO FIT THE RIG THAT BLOWS ORDINARY VAPE SMOKE AT THE ACTOR. B