Man, Erica Messer really knows how to give a reality check for show business. If we don't grab you from the first frame of it, then you're not going to be along for the rest of the ride. When we get off that plane, it has to look like we're in that country. That was, production value-wise, a huge undertaking. We were out in Piru for days and days and days, with a train station and 23 missing Americans walking around in the hot, hot heat of that. It doesn't sound like the crew of Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders got that kind of headache relief, so more power to them if they made it happen on their own.īut Tanzania was no joke, either. It's not easy, and it's precisely why businesses like "Snow Business" were created: t to relieve the headache of a bunch of crew members. While snow can fall quite regularly in the Nepal mountains, Los Angeles has gone around 50+ years without measurable snowfall, so the fact they were able to even create lasting snow cover is an achievement by itself! Then you realize that not only do you have to create the fluffy stuff on the ground, you also have to make it look like it's been hanging on trees, off of flowers, and anywhere else where snow would naturally fall. It does indeed sound nuts to recreate a snowy Nepal scene in Los Angeles. Watching that episode, I felt like, 'Wow, we had to do a whole heckuva lot.' We were outside a lot, it had to look like we were freezing. We were done with our season in early December, so it wasn't as cold as January and February had been in Los Angeles, but we were still in a high enough altitude that the snow that we made stuck around. We had to go out into the woods - Nothing You Could Fake in Griffith Park woods - and make snow. My answer might be different from our production designer's, but Nepal, production-wise, just seemed nuts.
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