A Yakuza interior for NCIS: Hawaiʻi. A full lattice screen system milled, finished, and hung inside a historic hall in four days.
01 — The Sketch
The Sketch
The production's art department set the look: an interior that had to read as generations old on camera, wrapped around a location that already carried its own elaborately carved hardwood architecture. Our job was translation, not authorship: turning their design into a cut list, a slat count, and a hanging plan that could go up fast and come down clean.
02 — The Sweat
The Sweat
Hundreds of slats milled to matching section, then assembled into screen panels wide enough to span the hall's window bays. Stock went into the shop pale and came out matched to the room's existing dark hardwood, because the finish had to disappear against old carving under practical lighting. Every panel was built to hang on the existing architecture without cutting into it.
- 01 Shop drawings from art dept
- 02 Slat milling
- 03 Screen assembly
- 04 Stain + finish match
- 05 Load-in + hang
- 06 Camera-ready, day 4
03 — The Reveal
The Reveal
On camera the screens read as part of the building, which is the whole trick. Four days from first cut to a room that looks like it has stood a hundred years, and struck without leaving a mark on it.
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