I've tended to picture Natalie's lab as a simple rectangle, but of course it's not. Varying a little season to season and episode to episode, it's usually arranged about like this: ( Map of Natalie's Lab )
I did the same thing when I was writing FK4, in fact for all the sets, since I had to visualize them in order to work out the actors' movements. Natalie's office is actually the first one I pinned down completely: as a small, fairly simple room (believe it or not!), and one that did actually get more shots from all angles than most, it's much easier to get a grip on than, say, the 96th Precinct police station
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May I put a link to this page on the wiki? So far, the only other floorplan I know of is Chris Rosmini's one for the loft. It is very helpful to have this sort of visual aid.
You mean link to this blog entry? Yes, you may. I may relocate the graphic later, putting it among the "References" on my fansite. Thank you for asking.
In your comments in your previous reply post, above, you wrote that you "did the same thing" for "all the sets" years ago, and "tweak[ed]" them "more than once." Since you already did all that work creating and correcting maps, wouldn't it be optimal to put those on the wiki instead?
>I did the same thing when I was writing FK4, in fact for all the sets
Have you considered sharing your creations on your LJ?
>- a scale hangs over the exam table
In second and third season, with the round-faced scale, that is true. However, first season has a different scale with a fan-shaped face, and when in use it sits on a cart placed at the end of the exam table.
Even in Natalie's lab, many items do move around and get replaced. For example, second and third season have a different computer cart (wider and with a keyboard tray) than first season, with one fewer file cabinet, and the "infectious waste" bin is all yellow in first season, while it is white with a yellow liner in second and third, as well as moving from one wall to another as the plot or camera require.
A thorough approach would require a separate diagram for each season (plus one for the "Only the Lonely" flashback, with the typewriter, coat rack, etc.), of course.
>- there's actually a small cart at the hall end of the long counter: what goes on it depends
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"Of course ordinary real-world logic does not apply to sets."
How true! It's just as valid an observation when you think of the alterations that were made to the police station set in the course of Season Three. Up to that point, the halls made a sort of sense; then they built a whole new bunch, and-if you plan them out-theyre nothing more than a maze of dead ends backed onto one another behind the interrogation room.
"A thorough approach would require a separate diagram for each season (plus one for the "Only the Lonely" flashback, with the typewriter, coat rack, etc.), of course."
I'm not stopping you! (beams)
Seriously, though, this is exactly the approach that Chris Rosmini decided to take when doing the layout of the loft: a whole different diagram for Season One. There isn't a single set where things didn't move. Even Natalie's apartment in Season Two (which only appeared in four or five episodes) had furniture move and pictures change.
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You mean link to this blog entry? Yes, you may. I may relocate the graphic later, putting it among the "References" on my fansite. Thank you for asking.
In your comments in your previous reply post, above, you wrote that you "did the same thing" for "all the sets" years ago, and "tweak[ed]" them "more than once." Since you already did all that work creating and correcting maps, wouldn't it be optimal to put those on the wiki instead?
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Have you considered sharing your creations on your LJ?
>- a scale hangs over the exam table
In second and third season, with the round-faced scale, that is true. However, first season has a different scale with a fan-shaped face, and when in use it sits on a cart placed at the end of the exam table.
Even in Natalie's lab, many items do move around and get replaced. For example, second and third season have a different computer cart (wider and with a keyboard tray) than first season, with one fewer file cabinet, and the "infectious waste" bin is all yellow in first season, while it is white with a yellow liner in second and third, as well as moving from one wall to another as the plot or camera require.
A thorough approach would require a separate diagram for each season (plus one for the "Only the Lonely" flashback, with the typewriter, coat rack, etc.), of course.
>- there's actually a small cart at the hall end of the long counter: what goes on it depends ( ... )
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How true! It's just as valid an observation when you think of the alterations that were made to the police station set in the course of Season Three. Up to that point, the halls made a sort of sense; then they built a whole new bunch, and-if you plan them out-theyre nothing more than a maze of dead ends backed onto one another behind the interrogation room.
"A thorough approach would require a separate diagram for each season (plus one for the "Only the Lonely" flashback, with the typewriter, coat rack, etc.), of course."
I'm not stopping you! (beams)
Seriously, though, this is exactly the approach that Chris Rosmini decided to take when doing the layout of the loft: a whole different diagram for Season One. There isn't a single set where things didn't move. Even Natalie's apartment in Season Two (which only appeared in four or five episodes) had furniture move and pictures change.
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