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By Design: Interviews with Film Production Designers
By Design: Interviews with Film Production Designers
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Author: Vincent LoBrutto Publisher: Praeger Paperback Format: Softcover # of Pages: 296 Pub. Date: 1992 ISBN-10: 0275940314 ISBN-13: 9780275940317
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About the Book:
In the book By Design, twenty prominent feature film
designers talk about their careers, their relationships with
Hollywood directors, and how they formulated and executed the
technical and aesthetic designs of their film projects. The
interviews explore production design techniques and the total process
of establishing the visual look of a feature film, including
the design and creation of sets, finding locations, establishing the
colour scheme or palette of a film, and supervising the costumes,
hairstyles, and makeup. The designers discuss in detail their work on
many highly acclaimed and seminal works in the field, including North
by Northwest, Chinatown,
The Godfather, Barry
Lyndon, Reds,
Amadeus, Brazil,
Blade Runner, and The
Last Emperor.
The interviewees talk about their relationships with the producer,
director of photography, art director, construction crew, set
decorator, property master, and costume designer, and how the team
helps bring the director’s vision to the screen. The interviews are
presented in an order that gives the reader a historical perspective
on the development of production design, from the studio era to
contemporary productions. Film scholar Vincent LoBrutto
includes biographical background and a complete filmography of each
subject, plus a glossary of terms that concern the design process. By
Design: Interviews with Film Production Designers
investigates the visual style of films in a pragmatic and detailed
manner usually overlooked by conventional film analysis, and will
prove especially useful to film students and scholars, and all
aspiring and experienced producers and directors.
What people say:
"A
treasure trove of invaluable information about the art of production
design, told in the voices of those who make movie magic. An
essential resource for anyone interested in production design as well
as for film buffs who want to know why their favorite movies look the
way they do. An outstanding achievement." — Jean
Picker Firstenberg, former CEO and Director of the American Film
Institute (AFI)
About the Author:
Vincent LoBrutto is an
instructor of motion picture editing and film studies for the School
of Visual Arts Department of Film, Video, and Animation in New York
City. He has worked as a film editor for Fox and HBO and as a
postproduction coordinator for the ABC television network. He is
editor of and a contributing writer to CinemaEditor magazine.
A special member of the American Cinema Editors (ACE), he also
contributes to Cineaste and Film Quarterly and is the
author of several books on filmmakers and filmmaking, including By
Design: Interviews with Film Production Designers. He
lives in Mount Vernon, New York. |
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