All posts tagged "production design"
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Joker Production Designer Mark Friedberg: I Almost Passed on the Film, But Found My Gotham
(In this essay, Martin Friedberg, production designer of Joker, explains why he wasn’t initially interested in the hit Todd Phillips drama, and how he eventually...
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Production Design Case Studies: Arad Sawat on Designing Norman and A Tale of Love and Darkness
Production design is not about building a real place. It’s about designing and building an idea, a unique point of view, using set building, styling,...
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Frame of Mind: Darren Lynn Bousman Takes You Behind the Scenes of Abattoir (Video)
What makes a scene work? Does it lie in the carefully executed plans of a film’s cast and crew? Or does the magic rest upon fortuitous mistakes, spontaneity and...
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Film Me, Cheaply; Kill Me, Deadly: How I Made a Low-Budget 1940s-Style Film Noir
How do you shoot a realistic-looking 1940s-period film noir on a low budget? Back in the fall of 2010, we began production on a black-and-white...
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A Set Fit For a King: Nine Production Design Tips from Macbeth Show that Economical Can Also Mean Beautiful
“Limitations should be viewed with an eye for opportunity.” I was taught that early in my career. Of course, it was those who doled out...
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Manufacturing Filth: How Smart Production Design Got “Big Boy” into Tribeca
Director Bryan Campbell and production designer Kristen Bonnalie, of the Tribeca-premiering short “Big Boy,” explain how they created the most disgusting onscreen bathroom since 1996’s...
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Julie Taymor
The young Taymor started her career on the Awaji Island, Japan, studying pre-Bunraku puppetry to learn more about experimental theater. The versatile artist has since...
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Interiors Journal: Haneke’s Amour
Every month, Interiors Journal dissects the floorplan of a film set to investigate the relationship between space and action. This month they’re focusing their attention...
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Dressing Up Shakespeare: Mark Friedberg Designs The Tempest
Mark Friedberg has a knack for creating worlds. As a production designer, it is his responsibility to imagine and create the environments in which characters...
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Taylor Russell on Waves and Why She’s OK With Being an Adult Who Plays High School Students
In director Trey Edward Shults’ Waves, Taylor Russell plays the younger sister of Kelvin Harrison Jr., even though she’s five days older than him in real life. In fact,...
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Rob Zombie: Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker
Rob Zombie still can’t let go of some of his past off-screen nightmares. “After I finished Halloween II, I was so beat up by the process that I hated...
Inside the Issue: How To
Edward Norton Walks Us Through Every Part of Making Motherless Brooklyn
Edward Norton is the best possible person to explain each stage of the moviemaking process for his new drama Motherless Brooklyn—he’s the film’s writer, director and lead actor. For...