only for members of the effects team to confuse them as props by the art directors. On the first shooting day, the effects people moved all of the props from one cell to another; the next day, several letters were written by prisoners and attached to their respective cells, ranging from angry responses to bids for King to sign an autograph. The miniseries was then shot in Las Vegas following the Utah shoots. Effects While many effects companies were interested in working on The Stand, Garris chose a colleague he knew for a very long time but never worked on a project with: Steve Johnson. Johnson had a been fan of King's books since twelve years before he started working on the miniseries, and the original novel was his favorite book by the author; he described it as "a dream come true" to work with King on set. Johnson's team XFX did Abagail's age makeup, Flagg's demonic heads, the Trashcan Man's burn make-up, 60 dummies of the dead bodies, and facial hair controlled with electrostatics. The corpses of the flu victims were intended to be dummies rather than "movie monster[s]," Garris described. Bill Corso, a member of the effects team for The Stand, voices two of the corpses. Randall Flagg To work with Sheridan's clean-cut look in working on Randall Flagg's normal make-up, Johnson came up with the idea of adding a longer hair wig for a more abrasive look. The source material's religious elements were referred to when designing Flagg's demon incarnations. According to writer Michael Beeler, Flagg's goat head was a "traditional concept of what evil in human form would be." In order for the ram horns to glow, they were made out of translucent substance with illumination coming from a backlight. For Flagg's hands, the effects team went for a recurring theme of eccentricities in how they worked, such as the extending of a third finger for symbolizing the devil's existence. In the scene where Flagg raises his fist at Abagail, the original screenplay presented him as having it clenched throughout; however, Johnson came up with a representation of Stigmata by first showing Flagg's palm with blood spewing out and then clenching it into a fist. The split-second shot of Flagg's fingers flexing backwards was done with the hand palm up, but the actor wore an appliance for a palm down illusion. For the scarecrow form, Johnson