All posts tagged "production design"
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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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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...
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Flash Forward: Grace Van Patten Takes a Leap into the Unknown in David Robert Mitchell’s Under the Silver Lake
Many actors will tell you that when you read a great script, you just know. But for Grace Van Patten, it was actually not knowing that...1Inside the Issue: Directing
Success in Succession: Matteo Garrone Shot Dogman Entirely in Sequence to Put Viewers in His Character’s Shoes
I wrote the script for my new film, Dogman, 12 years ago, and during those years I changed it many times, arriving at six or seven...Inside the Issue: How To
Journalism Plus: How Hail Satan?, The Brink, and Leaving Neverland Blend Truth-Seeking With Cinematic Storytelling
“Journalism Plus” is how Academy Award-winning moviemaker Laura Poitras (Citizenfour) characterizes making documentaries. If you’re a documentarian, you may not have a degree or credentials in...8