Mathieu Weekes and Ben Norman discuss why this was the toughest set to replicate, and how a last-minute change altered how contestants fell. <\/p>
Most scenes in Netflix\u2019s hit South Korean series Squid Game<\/a> featured visual effects (VFX). It was filmed using green or blue screen, and CGI.<\/p>\n That\u2019s why Squid Game: The Challenge<\/a>\u2019s production designer Mathieu Weekes and games designer Ben Norman had a difficult task ahead of them when building the sets for the reality series. Plus, they didn\u2019t actually confer with anyone who worked on the original show.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n As the second batch of episodes were released on Netflix yesterday, the remaining contestants<\/a> were faced with the Glass Bridge challenge, which Weekes and Norman tell us was the trickiest to replicate.<\/p>\n For Squid Game, the actors crossed a makeshift bridge that was one metre off the ground and jumped between tempered glass panels to film the scene.<\/p>\n Read more:<\/strong><\/p>\n The reality show players had a three-metre drop across a 35-metre-long truss bridge on as few legs as possible so it looked like it was floating, concealing as much of the structure as possible.<\/p>\n \u201cWe were really strict with the lighting levels and blacking everything out,\u201d Weekes tells us. \u201cEven the stairwell to get to the bridge was blacked out, so the contestants had no idea how far up they were, to fully tap into the fear of the unknown as they reached the \u2018glass\u2019 panels to cross.\u201d<\/p>\n\n