The world of the Art director & set designer

BY: Ashley Patey, Jena Richards,Fran Eagles & Tabitha Powel.

Art director

• The art director reports to the production designer, and more directly oversees artists and craftspeople, such as the set designer and set decorator, who carry out the production design.

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Normal salary

• The normal salary for an Art director is: $104,262 but can range from $83,078 - $123,900 on average.

               

               

               

            

Education/Training

• Formal EducationThere is not really any way you can really prepare to become an art director. Although you need a bachelor's or master's degree. Suggested majors are art or graphic design. Other majors you might want to consider are Photographic arts or computer applications technology. What you want out of your career can pretty much let you know what major you are best suited for.

Education Requirements • -Ability and passion to create memorable moving images and

advertising for a wide range of on-air and off air programming promotion. - Minimum of years of ad agency, broadcast network, or major cable network experience. - Must posses a demonstrable aptitude in creative problem solving and information gathering, with the ability to take a project from concept to completion. - Excellent verbal and written communication skills, superior time-management and organizational skills, with the aptitude to manage multiple projects and the ability to work in a collaborative, creative team environment providing art direction for the department and overall on-air brand development.

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Common career paths

• Art directing is not an entry-level job. Media of any sort would be a good place to start where you can gain experience and develop skills. Get experience by working as an assistant to an art Director. It really is a great way to get experience. Working on school newspapers or websites is a good way to prepare for entry-level jobs.

Pre-production duties • designing and setting up the production set. • Consults the script and the director to create an

authentic and believable set. • Drafts the set design onto the studio floor plan. • Oversee content design and production• Set and approve the visual design and content.• character development: modeling, texturing,

rigging, and animation. • Understand the toolset and engine parameters• Manage the art team’s schedule. • Stay current on game engine technology and art

processes.

Production

• to over see work done in pre production follows through and goes well with production.

* The art director does nothing with post Production. *

Best suited for Job

• To be best suited for this job you would have to have the attributes for the job. Some of them are good communication skills, planning and organizing, innovation, good decision making, A leader etc.

Good roles

• The madness of king George(1994) – Adam, Ken(1921- )

• He won two academy Awards for art direction in this movie.

• Amadeus(1984) – Brandenstein, Patrizia von 1948

• She won an academy award for art direction in this movie.

• Batman(1989) – Furst, Anton(1944 – 1991)• He won a academy award for art direction

What goes wrong!!

• What goes wrong with an art director is they can come up with ideas for the film and the director may not like them

• causing a disagreement between the two people which could delay the production of the movie.

Equipment used

• A lot of art directors can use computer software these days so the computer is the most used tool. The programs do quite a lot. When we researched it there was a lot of technical stuff that was hard to understand.

Set Designer

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• The set designer is the draftsman, often an architect, who realizes the structures or interior spaces called for by the production designer.

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Salary

• $30,500 to $46,000 per year or $14.75 to $22.00 per hour

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Education/Training

• Minimum Education Required: Associate (2-year) degree

• Recommended Education: Bachelor's (4-year) degree

• Recommended High School Courses:  Drama, Stagecraft, Literature, Communications, Broadcasting, History of Theatre, Art, and Industrial Arts

• Other Recommended Activities: Act for an audience of any size, support others who are acting, or speak in public

Education requirements

• You need a BA in Interior Design and an AA in Architecture. Some have Architecture degrees and some have no degrees at all .The only thing abut a set designer is the more education and experience, the better.

• Photoshop and Illustrator or Corel Draw are good to know. Vector Works is popular, and Rhino is often requested.

• Set design is one of the last hold-outs for preferring pencil drafting, computers are very slowly catching on.

• There are not many schools around. You can take classes in Set Design, Art Direction, and Production Design at UCLA Extension.

Common career paths:

• Theatre is a common path for a set designer to make and maintain the look of the sets.

• Another common path for a set designer is to design sets for a series of TV shows.

• Working with a film industry on making sets for a movie

Pre-production

• -Build the set and make sure it is working

• -All set props, scenery, and whatever is used in the actual production has to be present.

• -Complete all painting by production

• -Present any changes to the original design.

• -Research

Production-

• -Supervise the realization of visual solutions.

• The set designer does nothing in post-production.*http://elokuvantaju.uiah.fi/2001/english/study_material/scenography/lavastaja.jsp

Best suited for job

• To be best suited for this job you would have to have the attributes for the job. Some of them are Be creative and imaginative, have an eye for color and detail, appreciate beauty, sketch well, work on your own and under pressure etc.

Good roles

• Good Roles

• Dale Ferguson (Set design 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE (2006 nominations)

• Adam Gardnir (Set design) Virgins

*all we could find*

What goes wrong!!!

• What goes wrong with the set designer is a set could break and they can lose some supplies they need in making the sets.

Equipment

• Equipment associated with set director is building supplies such as hammers, nails, cloth, & wood etc.

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• The American film institute by Melinda Corey & George Ochoa

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