Book description
Whether you'd like to be an art director or already are one, this book contains valuable solutions that will help you get ahead. This comprehensive, thorough professional manual details the set-up of the art department and the day-to-day job duties: scouting for locations, research, executing the design concept, constructing scenery, and surviving production. You will not only learn how to do the job, but how to succeed and secure future jobs. Rounding out the text is an extensive collection of useful forms and checklists, along with interviews with prominent art directors, relevant real-life anecdotes, and blueprints, sketches, photographs, and stills from Hollywood sets.Table of contents
- Cover
- Halftitle
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
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SECTION I. Pre-Production Process
- 1. Introduction
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2. The Responsibilities, The Relationships, and the Setup
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Hierarchy of Responsibilities
- First Responsibilities
- The Relationships
- Art Department
- Interdepartmental PR
- Art Department Setup
- Art Department Coordinator
- Archivist
- Digital Artists
- Set Designers
- Set Decorator
- Greensman
- Prop Master
- Construction Coordinator
- Mechanical Special Effects
- Stunts
- Visual Effects and Previsualization
- Transportation
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Hierarchy of Responsibilities
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3. The Design Process
- Locations Department and Scouting
- First Scouts
- Second Scouts
- Third Scouts
- Fourth Scouts
- Fifth Scouts
- Beginning the Design Process
- Research
- Storyboarding
- Animatics
- Concept Illustrating
- Computer Modeling
- White Models
- Hand Drafting
- Designing for the Lens
- Lenses 101
- Aspect Ratio
- Perspective 101
- Lens Test
- 4. A Legacy of Historical Techniques
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5. CGI and Digital Filmmaking
- Breaking Ground
- McDowell AlexProduction Designer(Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Cat in the Hat, Minority Report, Lawnmower Man)
- Green ColinPrevisualization Supervisor(I Robot, Van Helsing, Elf, The Matrix Revisited, Fight Club)
- Chiang DougDirector of Concept Design, Visual Effects Art Director, Production Designer(Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace & Episode II: Attack of the Clones) (Forrest Gump, Death Becomes Her, Ghost) (The Polar Express)
- The Cutting Edge
- 6. The Physical Scenery Process: Construction
- 7. Mechanical Effects: A Practical Guide
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SECTION II. Production and Post-Production Processes
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8. Paperwork and Production Tasks
- The Onset of Principal Photography
- Production Meetings
- The Schedules and Lists
- Script Breakdown
- One-Liner Schedule
- Shooting Schedule
- Day Out of Days
- Call Sheet
- Cell Phone and Pager List
- Director’s Plans
- Art Department Production Tasks
- Clearances and Product Placement
- Keeping Ahead of the Camera
- On-Set Presence
- Cover Sets
- Communication with the Trinity
- Telling the Truth
- Art Department Tactical Strategy
- Handling Changes
- Vendors
- Minding the Budget
- Keeping a Chronicle
- Protecting the Crew
- Post-Production
- Finishing Up
- Archiving
- Wrapping the Art Department
- Wrapping Hero Sets
- Re-shoots
- Sequels
- Landing the Next Job or Taking a Vacation
- 9. Networking and Self-Promotion
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10. Non-Union vs. Union Status
- Making the Grade or Not
- Designing Indie Films
- Production Value = Budgeting + Scheduling
- Budget
- Schedule
- Image and Format
- Securing CG Talent
- The Art Directors Guild
- Classes of Membership
- Initiation Fee and Dues
- The Roster
- Taft-Hartley
- Training
- Basic Collective Bargaining Agreement Selected Provisions
- The New Paradigm in Experimental Film
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8. Paperwork and Production Tasks
- SECTION III: Appendices
Product information
- Title: The Art Direction Handbook for Film
- Author(s):
- Release date: July 2013
- Publisher(s): Focal Press
- ISBN: 9781136068690
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