The subway has played a major role in Zoe,
Duncan, Jack & Jane. There, Zoe and her pals have met other people,
plot schemes, or make a quick exit in a subway car.
John Mula, an Emmy award-winning production
designer reminisced about his experiences in New York and looked to
actual subway stations for inspiration. Says Mula, "New York first
began building its subway system downtown, and those stations have more
classical fixtures, like the big columns and the tilework on the
walls."
Unfortunately, Mula was unable to build a model
of one such of those New York subway. What he did do, however, is
quite extraodinary. Mula was required to take an real-life station
platform and reduce it to fit the 75-foot-long set, all the while
leaving enough room for a full-scale replica of a subway car.
For different subway stations, the crew simply
takes out the ceramic street name on the wall and puts in another block
with the name of another street name.
Another secret of the subway station is how the
set crew can change the newsstand into a flower stall, a shoeshine
stand, or anything else that the script needs. And that's how the
production team finds a way to show New York's subways at the Los
Angeles team.
Here are a couple pictures of the subway
station(s):
