Production design

From Hollywood Boulevard to Spahn Ranch, here is a look at how production designer Barbara Ling and team turned back time to bring 1969 Hollywood to life in Quentin Tarantino’s Once upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019)

Production designer Jon Hutman takes us through the set designs of famous movie homes from ‘You’ve Got Mail,’ ‘Clueless,’ ‘Practical Magic,’ ‘Something’s Gotta Give,’ ‘Mr. and Mrs. Smith,’ ’10 Things I Hate About You,’ ‘Gone Girl,’ ‘The Holiday,’ ‘The Royal Tenenbaums,’ ‘Love Actually,’ ‘The Family Stone’ and Alfred Hitchcock’s ’North by Northwest' and provides his expertise on stage setting and location scouting.

Jon Hutman is best known for his work with directors Nancy Meyers, Angelina Jolie, Sydney Pollack, and Robert Redford. His most recent project, 'Christmas Chronicles 2,' directed by Chris Columbus, will premiere on Netflix next Christmas. You can check out the range of his work on his website, https://www.jonhutman.com

HOLLYWOOD production designer Matthew Flood Ferguson and visual effects supervisor Paul Santagada, describe tapping iconic locations and how they buried themselves in research to transport viewers back to 1940s Tinseltown.

Behind the Scene: A Christmas Story Production Designer Reuben Freed

In this episode of “Notes on a Scene,” Rick Carter, Forrest Gump’s production designer, breaks down the “Vietnam” scene from the film.

Go behind the scenes to find out how period movies turn back the clock on city streets.

Rena DeAngelo is the Oscar-nominated set decorator behind this year's "West Side Story" and Wes Anderson's "The French Dispatch," both set in the '50s-to-'60s time period. In this episode of "Movies Insider," she breaks down how she'd transform a contemporary New York City street to look like a 1957 time capsule.

Rena takes us through Eclectic/Encore Props in Long Island City, Queens, and shows us the period products and street dressing she would use to rewind time on a modern city. Find out how set decorators dress windows, create fake storefronts, and cover up modern signifiers to make filming locations resemble an era of the past.

Rena has worked on a long list of period pieces, from "Mad Men" to "The Help." She is a frequent collaborator of Steven Spielberg's, having worked on three of the director's historical dramas: "West Side Story," "Bridge of Spies," and "The Post."

Antxón Gómez, de vaste production designer van regisseur Pedro Almodóvar, is hoofdgast in de nieuwe VPRO Cinema Extra, waarin hij vertelt over de geheimen van zijn vak.

Er zijn maar weinig filmmakers bij wie hun films te herkennen zijn aan hoe de set eruit ziet. De meeste regisseurs drukken een stempel op hun werk door bijvoorbeeld specifieke cameratechnieken in te zetten, te spelen met genres waar ze in uitblinken, of steeds met dezelfde soort acteurs te werken. Pedro Almodóvar, de excentrieke Madrileense regisseur van onder meer La mala educacion (2004), Dolor y gloria (2019) en Hable con ella (2002), vormt een vrolijke uitzondering op die regel. Hoewel hij zich wel degelijk ook onderscheidt op andere manieren, is het vooral het kleurrijke production design in zijn films dat zo typisch ‘almodóvariaans’ aandoet.

Stop-motion animatie is hot. Production designer Curt Enderle (Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio) draait al decennia mee achter de schermen van deze arbeidsintensieve animatievorm. “Animatie heeft lang de reputatie van ‘babysitter’ gehad.”

Production designer Adam Stockhausen shows us how he brings sets to life for Wes Anderson's iconic films like 'The Budapest Hotel,' 'The French Dispatch' and Asteroid City. How do you get the retro look and feel of the Luncheonette scene? How do you portray depth and richness in each shot? How can you make sets "float" for the insides to be seen and be as light as possible? From ample research to gather all the intricate details to physically bringing the sets to life, Adam takes us through his genius process of production design.