Art Direction and Production Design
How is the look of a film achieved? In Art Direction and Production Design, six outstanding scholars survey the careers of notable art directors, the influence of specific design styles, the key roles played by particular studios and films in shaping the field, the effect of technological changes on production design, and the shifts in industrial modes of organization. The craftas purpose is to produce an overall pictorial avisiona for films, and in 1924 a group of designers formed the Cinemagundi Clubatheir skills encompassed set design, painting, decoration, construction, and budgeting. A few years later, in recognition of their contributions to filmmaking, the first Academy Awards for art direction were given, a clear indication of just how essential the oversight of production design had become to the so-called majors. The original essays presented in Art Direction and Production Design trace the trajectory from Thomas Edisonas primitive studio, the Black Maria, to the growth of the Hollywood astudio system, a to the influence of sound, to a discussion of the aauteur theory, a and to contemporary Hollywood in which computer-generated imagery has become common. By 2000, the Society of Motion Picture Art Directors became the Art Directors Guild, emphasizing the significance of the contributions of art direction and production design to filmmaking. Art Direction and Production Design is a volume in the Behind the Silver Screen seriesaother titles in the series include Acting, Animation, Cinematography, Directing, Editing and Special/Visual Effects, Producers, Screenwriting, and Sound.... and each picture requiring about ten weeksa#39; work, and these staffers collaborated directly with each filma#39;s director, assistant director, ... because he was more frequently quoted in the press, not only on art direction but on architecture and interior design, and because of ... decorative that they detracted from Marlene Dietricha#39;s performance, although in his own Mary of Scotland (John Ford, 1936, art dirs.
| Title | : | Art Direction and Production Design |
| Author | : | Lucy Fischer |
| Publisher | : | Rutgers University Press - 2015-03-06 |
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