Riley Fearon offers some tips for dressing up your sets on a budget. On small budget productions, coming up with locations can be a challenge – especially if you need something a bit unusual. An upcoming music video for the band Run 8 Rider required that a single location represent three different time periods to tell its Read MoreRead More
Need to take the shine out of some instruments for your old lab set design? Here’s a technique for aging metal instruments for photography – but always SAFETY FIRST! It’s simple to cheat and age metallic objects by years. Obviously safety is paramount so do this bit outside in the open! Stick your props on Read MoreRead More
A tribute to all space helmets in cinema. Edited by Keith Melton Music: Ground Control to Eleanor Rigby-Mash up by ‘Daft Beatles’Read More
First-time feature production designer Jeremy Hindle admits to some dicey feelings while taking director Kathryn Bigelowon an initial walk-through of “Zero Dark Thirty’s” key set. But they weren’t rookie jitters. “I remember telling her, ‘You’re going to feel insanely creepy. You’re going to feel like he lived here,’” Hindle says. The verisimilitude Bigelow demanded for all Read MoreRead More
Les Miserables is one of Broadway’s most celebrated musicals. So how do you turn a beloved stage production that has seen countless professional and amateur designs to the big screen? Here are four featurettes showing off the hard work of the designers in adapting the musical for screen. Production Design Hair and Make Up Costume Design Read MoreRead More
A preview of the bonus content of the “The Dark Knight Rises” which includes this timelapse of the construction of the Batcave on a sound stage.Read More
The latest telling of Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina stages the story literally on a stage. Production designer Sarah Greenwood shares the process of building a theater from scratch for some of the filming. The oft-quoted phrase “All the world’s a stage” from Shakespeare’s “As You Like It” might well have been the guiding principle for production Read MoreRead More
What goes into creating an Ad Campaign? This article from Ad Week runs down the process the ad agency Mother used to create a series of ads for Zeebox. View Playlist on YouTube Article from Ad Week below: IDEA: Cookies and milk. A prom queen and her limo. A slow-running teenager and a horror-movie monster. Read MoreRead More
From Sound to Directing, Set Design to Animation, Visual Effects to Editing – here are 16 Mini Master Classes as presented by BAFTA Guru from professionals working on the biggest and most popular movies of today. View the Playlist on YouTubeRead More
What’s in front of the camera makes all the difference – here are 12 featurettes on Production Design: View the Playlist on YouTubeRead More
The Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy production designer gives a Mini Masterclass to BAFTA Guru.Read More
