When Cassie enter’s Alex’s closet she finds out some things she may or may not be entirely ready for…one surprise is that Alex is a guy who has the entire collection of Playboy magazines catalogued systematically.
yes, those are real vintage playboys we purchased.
This is me very early in the morning organizing these magazines on set before the crew arrives.
So definitely we could have asked for these to be arranged in chronological order before they arrived to set…but somehow they weren’t. And not everybody is up for the sort of insane attention to detail and diving into a mountain of disorganized magazines and cataloging them in order that this project would require…
Fortunately that morning it was exactly the kind of soothing quiet project I was game for. Getting paid to answer to the most OCD corners of your mind can be a pleasure. Don’t get me wrong though, I’m by no means the kind of person who has all my magazines catalogued in order at home.
when I still had one shelf left to go.
one things I learned in this painstaking process is there is a transition in binding for Playboys from stapled binding to the flat edge binding that happens today.
I would like to note that the closet at the location was totally empty when we started, so one of our tasks when decorating this set (which was already a pretty massive project) was to find all the items to totally fill in this closet with designer clothes (on a non-designer clothes budget) and all the small things you might find in your closet with the sort of details that would make it look realistic.
here’s a little bonus, that isn’t this closet, but something else I worked on that same afternoon after I sorted this closet: The Medicine Cabinet close-up.
this is what we see Cassie and Max see when they open the cabinet
the reverse shot of Cassie and Max staring into the interior of the medicine cabinet.
If you are ever wondering how they do that, this is what it looked like when we were setting it up:
Roxy and Richard, two great set dressers I was working with that afternoon.
This is what my files for “Alex’s Penthouse Apt” looked like when we finished the set.