Showing posts with label Room Details. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Room Details. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 18, 2019

Behind the Scenes: Pictures of Seth's room from the pilot episode


Here are two super rare images of Seth's room that was featured in the pilot episode only. The pilot episode was filmed in a real house located in Malibu, on the same cul-de-sac as the two story exterior house we see in nearly every episode. Ironically this house was a one story. 

After the pilot episode, Seth's room was rebuilt in Raleigh Studios located in Manhattan Beach, CA, along with the pool house, Cohens house, harbor school etc.. Sadly the house used in the pilot later burned down from the California fires in 2018 (to read all about that go here). You will notice that Seth's room in the pilot episode is decorated much different then the rest of the series. Many of the band posters were switched out with more indie type bands but the majority of the other accessories remained similar. 

Read much more about Seth's room here!

Tuesday, October 3, 2017

Behind the Scenes: Where does the Cohen staircase really lead to?

the cohens oc staircase behind the scenes

Where does the Cohen staircase actually lead to? This is a trick question. No it doesn't lead to the stairway to heaven but A+ for the comedic creativity. For the viewers, the stairs in the Cohen house of course lead to one place - Seth's room and possibly the infamous mystery guest rooms we never get to see! But truthfully the staircase leads somewhere far stranger...

seth, summer and zach stand behind the scenes on set the o.c.

As you can see from this rare behind the scenes photo above the stairs lead to, well, nowhere really, look to the top right, the wall just cuts off. You walk up, you walk down in a deep depression - I mean look at the expression on Adam Brody's face, even he's bummed that his room isn't actually up there! 

the o.c. cohen house front of house set backstage behind the scenes photo

As you see from this super duper RARE external house photo (1of 2 that exist), the stairs go up into blank nothingness kind of like Summer Robert's step mothers brain, not much going on up there! There is no second floor just various lighting and scaffolds. If you are having trouble locating where the stairs would be - they are located on the opposite side of the rounded wall on the right (right of the rightest front door white pillar).

Manhattan Beach Raleigh Studios 27, 28

The Cohen O.C. mansion's interior set was actually built indoors within stage 28 at the Raleigh Manhattan Beach Studios in Manhattan Beach, CA (now called MBS Media Campus). The set was actually built to scale of the original pilot interiors/exteriors. Seth's room was located in another area within stage 27 which also housed other O.C. interior sets such as Summer's room and Marissa's room as well as the harbor school. Stage 27 also housed O.C. sets like Harbor School interiors, The Crab Shack and Sandy's beach office!


Mind blown? Your welcome. 

Sunday, February 21, 2016

Rare Glimpses: Seth's Open Bedroom Window

seth's o.c room window open

Here we have a one time only peak at Seth Cohen's open bedroom window from Season 3 Episode 13 "The Pot Stirrer". During Seth's avoidance phase, he decided to score some Mary-Jane from Kaitlin Cooper. With a couple of joints pre-rolled and some free time to burn, Seth opens up his upstairs bedroom window for a little escapism.

seth's o.c room window open

As you may know all of the interiors shots filmed after the pilot episode were filmed in the Raleigh Manhattan Beach Studios. They constructed the whole thing on a sound-stage.

seth's o.c room

The thing that makes this rare is we are seeing the only glimpse on the other side of the Seth Cohen room set, its like seeing the dark side of the moon. In every other episode we only see the windows shut with tree shadows behind it. This is another reason why this episode is awesome. The writers really branch out literally, they involve an open window featuring trees and a certain curly haired goof smoking a tree. #mindblown

If you enjoyed this post check out this great other Seth's room post here!

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