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 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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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Richard Dreyfuss
American Graffiti, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Stand By Me, Mr. Holland’s Opus… even while reading like a what’s what of cinema, those titles are just a handful...
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Cold Piece of Work: Richard Linklater Braves Greenland Hurricanes for Where’d You Go, Bernadette
Richard Linklater’s Where’d You Go, Bernadette opens with the answer to its titular question. In an impressively executed overhead shot, the camera gazes down onto placid Antarctic waters as...
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How They Did It: The Farewell Writer-Director Lulu Wang Shares Secrets to Turning Your Life Story into a Memoir Movie
The week before production started on The Farewell—my sophomore feature about a young woman (Billi, played by Awkwafina) and her family’s attempts to keep their grandmother’s cancer diagnosis hidden...