The Art Direction Handbook for Film
By- Michael Rizzo, MICHAEL RIZZO is a writer, artist, photographer, teacher, art director, and web designer. Among the films he has both art directed and production designed are Vanilla Sky, JFK, My Cousin Vinny, My Fellow Americans, and So I Married an Axe Murderer. TV credits include: The Hunley, The Day Lincoln was Shot, Comic Relief '89 and '90, All My Children, Golden Gate, and The Lost Battalion. He is a regular contributor to industry periodicals. He has also taught Production Design for Film and Television at Santa Monica College's Academy of Entertainment Technology, and Visualization for Film at the American Intercontinental University.
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.
Audience
Aspiring or beginning art directors and production designers; anyone involved in the creative aspect of filmmaking, such as set designers, art department coordinators, illustrators, costume designers, propmasters, etc.; film students
Paperback, 352 Pages
Published: July 2005
Imprint: Focal Press
ISBN: 978-0-240-80680-8
Reviews
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"This book is the ultimate guide for anyone who wants to work in the design aspect of the film and television industry." - Black Filmmaker "Mike Rizzo is a first rate talent; an artist and a craftsman. His writing is insightful, and provocative. He is uniquely suited to write a book like this, which fuses the wisdom of traditional filmmaking to the power and hope of the digital possibilities of 21st century filmmkaing." --John Gray, Helter Skelter, Martin and Lewis
Contents
- Preface; Introduction; Hierarchy of Responsibilities; The Relationships; Art Department Set-Up; Location Department and Scouting; The Design Process; Tricks of the Trade; The Physical Scenery Process: Construction; The Physical Scenery Process: Mechanical Effects; Vendors; Principal Photography Begins; Keeping Ahead of the Camera; Art Department Maintenance
