Turner Studios

Background

Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King is an eight-episode anthology series on TNT based on short stories written by Stephen King. It debuted on July 12, 2006, and ended its run on August 2, 2006.

Project

One of the episodes featured a red lace dress that was needed for the opening title sequence. However, by the time the opening titles were to be shot, the dress was no longer in existence. The call to create this dress came in on a Tuesday afternoon at 4:30, and the piece was needed on set at 6:00 Thursday morning. This left one evening and one day to complete the project.

The fabrics were shopped that evening, and the pattern was created based on the same screen capture images below. A test version of the dress was created and fitted to a form the same size as the actress for the title shoot.

The dress was cut and assembled from start to finish the following day and was picked up that afternoon to go to the shoot the next morning.

The below screen capture and video show the dress as it appeared in the opening title sequence for each episode in the series.