Grant major production designer biography books

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Grant major production designer biography books

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Scott , Paul S. Brown , Edwin B. Horning , E. Preston Ames , Henry Grace , F. Keogh Gleason. Scott , Stuart A. Brown , Herman A. Blumenthal , Walter M. Payne Dean Tavoularis , Angelo P. Graham , George R. Brink Pierre Guffroy , Jack Stephens. Ford set Stuart Craig , Robert W. He is a terrific person and gifted film maker of course, totally committed, energetic and collaborative.

He has a long memory too given the length of time LOTR took to make. Coming from this craft-orientated direction led to his films having an idiosyncratic originality to them. He was ideally suited to making LOTR in part because if this craft orientated approach and an audacious confidence. You were production designer on the Lord of The Rings Trilogy.

What was involved in the research process, and how long did it take? This is a huge question and of course the whole experience was 20 years ago now. We worked on the pre-production for 2 years and eventually filmed the three films over the course of a year followed by a series of pick-ups after that so for me the experience was around 3.

Regarding research we had the superbly written book to glean pretty much all the information we needed but on top of this we looked at earlier European architectural styles, predominantly the Romanesque period as a touch-stone for the Gondorian culture. Other European cultures influenced aspects of Middle Earth for example ancient Icelandic building methods influenced the buildings at Edoras.

Having said this we were not saying that Middle Earth existed as a part of Europe at all, but Tolkien has his roots firmly in the Anglo - European historic sphere so using these examples seemed logical. Lastly and most importantly the book illustrators Alan Lee and John Howe bought their own aesthetics to the design process that gave the look of the films a specific quality.