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.
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.
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
