Production designer Jade Healy reveals how she made Oscar-worthy miniature models for Tom Hanks' Mister Rogers movie.
This week:A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhoodproduction designer Jade Healy.
for enjoy a beautiful day in the neighborhood, you actuallyneeda neighborhood.
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“We wanted to show a side of humanity that was ugly and beautiful.
Thats what life is.
Thats what humanity is.
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Construction of the teeny cityscapes began by looking at photographs of the actual miniatures produced for the originalNeighborhoodseries.
Still, Healy and her team of artists had to experiment to get things just right.
It was a work in progress constantly,” she remembers.
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We were figuring it out on the day [of shooting]!"
“The cemetery was a miniature we added that wasnt in the script originally.
We wanted to do Columbus Circle at one point, but we never built it.”
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Next on Healy’s four-month tenure on the project was designing a recreation of theMister Rogers' Neighborhoodset.
“My decorator and buyer would be searching forever to find exactly the thing in the corner.
It didnt matter that no one would notice.”
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