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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Sydney on the Map: To Land Breakout Roles, Sydney Sweeney Draws Her Own Maps of the Characters She Inhabits
A reverent initiate of a patriarchal regime; a disturbed young psychiatric hospital ward; a sexually questioning teen with a flair for the dramatic; a mysterious denizen...1Inside the Issue: Directing
Think Like A Photographer: Generation Wealth’s Lauren Greenfield Shares How Still Techniques Make Better Movies
The biggest change I experienced when I went from making pictures to making films was the sense of an arc—of creating a story over time, and...Inside the Issue: How To
How They Did It: Casting Unknowns Was Key to Finding the Laughs and Lived-In Feel of Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade
Before I directed my first film, Eighth Grade, I had heard that 90 percent of directing is casting. I’m sure there are other directors who weigh...2