Right now I have this old door currently sitting in the middle of my kitchen. Why is it there? I found it on the street and it's the perfect width to fit the doorways of the main apartment set in Bear Town. To keep costs down, I plan to make this set a redress of a house set built (but not used) for a TV Pilot I worked on last year. Of course the door in question is "human scale" right now so it will have to be cut down to "puppet-scale" (I'll cut it in half so it will become two doors). It was a great find!

I was on the subway system again today and discovered that the Downsview station would be ideal to shoot puppets in if I need a station for the finale. The layout of the stairs and walkways there is visually interesting and the real attraction is that the way they are designed it's possible to make puppets appear to be in scale with their surroundings in-camera. It's something I'll be keeping in mind as I continue to refine the subway sequence in the script, although I'm still not sure it's feasible to shoot on TTC property.

In a fit of inspiration just before I got off the train there I quickly jotted down all the warning messages posted for safety on the subway doors. I have an idea to incorporate the messages in a few a visual jokes during Bear Town's subway chase. I'm also planning to do some more writing tonight. I have about ten pages left to write to finish the rough draft of the screenplay, hopefully I'll be done before the end of this Saturday.

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