Production Design

What IS Production Design?

It is the overall “look” of a film that supports the story.

Balances Art & Commerce

Serves the story

Gives the impression of photographing real objects

Shape reality to fictional ends

Does all this on a budget

“The production designer sits at this conjunction between the world outside the story and the story’s needs.”

C.S. TashiroPRETTY PICTURES

Production Designer

Production DesignerProduction, an industrial process, is shaped by a designer into aesthetically pleasing forms that support the script and director’s vision.

Balance Art and CommerceServes the script and the characters - the story

Shapes reality to fictional endsCreates the illusion of story taking place in real spaces, despite the constructed, designed nature of the sets

Gives the impression of

photographing real objects

Does all this on a budget

• Overall design• Locations• Sets• Props• Wardrobe• Continuity• Composition

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Production Designer and Art department design the...

Collaborators

Director

Cinematographer

Costume Designer

Make-up and Hair stylists

•Meet with director

•Create overall design

•Make locations work for story

•Design the sets

•Select and build props

•Collaborate with costumer

•Manage their part of continuity

•Partner with DP on composition

Production Design Process

Discussing the set design in the corner of the fort on "The New World" set. From left to right: David Crank, art director; Bill Kelso, APVA director of archaeology; Jack Fisk, production designer; Eric Deetz, APVA senior archaeologist; and Bly Straube, APVA senior curator. Photo courtesy APVA.

Process

Themes• Water - “Water and Power”• Senses - Jake’s nose, Evelyn’s eye• Color - suffused, golden browns or navy

blues: almost every shot is filmed in the late afternoon, early morning, or night

• Peeping Tom, voyeuristic camera• Pretty surface hides submerged evil• Film Noir

The film's use of color, its presentation of bright sunlit landscapes and dim, shadowy rooms,furthers its examination of "beautiful surfaces and corrupt interiors."

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