For the pre-credits sequence of exploding items in slow motion, co-creators
Michelle King and
Robert King hired visual effects artist
Lawson Deming (
The Good Wife (2009)) to create something quite different. In conjunction with f/x specialist
Tom Ceglia, Deming utilized a camera capable of shooting 25,000 fps and a trunnion gun to fire both glass and steel balls at the fragile items. For the larger solid items such as the chair and table, they used a detonation cord capable of greater fragmentation. For the 40 seconds that make up the dynamic intro, the team spent 24 hours of actual shooting, 12 hours of testing, weeks of prop building, and days of editing to complete the sequence.
