Production Design and "The Grand Budapest Hotel"
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IntrotoProductionDesignv2.pptxIntro to production design
“Good work that people think is the cinematographer’s is often that of the production designer. We light their work, and when their work is beautifully accomplished, by which I mean well matched to the story, the result is vastly superior.”
-Robert Richardson, A.S.C.
Production Design Roles
Maybe second largest department on set.
Production Designer
Art Director
Set Designer
Graphic Designer
Costume Designer
Set Decorator
Props Master
Production design
Responsible for the look of everything in front of the camera (mise en scène)
Visualizes and generates set design, sketches and renderings
Select and treat locations
Design concept relating to:
set decoration,
props,
special effects,
lighting,
costuming,
makeup and hair
Blade runner (1982)
Ridley Scott (Director), Hampton Francher David Peoples (Screenwriters), Jordan Cronenweth (Director of Photography)
Adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Underperformed box office, mixed reviews initially.
97 th on AFI’s list of 100 best films in 100 years (10th anniversary update)
One of Time magazine’s All-Time best 100 since 1923
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Citizen Kane (1941)
Orson Welles (Director), Herman J. Mankiewicz, Orson Welles (Screenwriters), Gregg Toland (Director of Photography), Van Nest Polglase (Art Director)
Nominated for nine Academy Awards, only won Best Original Screenplay.
1st on AFI’s list of 100 best films in 100 years (10th anniversary update)
2nd on Sight & Sound, British Film Institute critics poll (50 years at top, in 2018 overtaken)
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