ADG Perspective

July-August 2019

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valued creative partner. Like all Brits, she travels well. Bryony is a maven of thrift stores, as well as yard and estate sales, and she has that uncanny ability or luck for finding character-appropriate furnishings from local sources. Once again, this talent was critical due to the production's remote location and rebate requirements. And they call it Show BUSINESS? The Art Department's start-up was negatively impacted by my very late hire, a delay that significantly reduced the essential time required for me to provide a proper breakdown and logistical analysis of the regional strengths, weaknesses and the feasibility of potential locations. These days, this is not a unique problem but rather more of a symptomatic and chronic epidemic that is being experienced by many designers and Art Departments who are required, for incentive purposes, to work in smaller cities, as well as the regional production centers. It is long overdue for the ADG to generate a detailed study with compelling data in order to illustrate to the studios the cost savings that they will derive from green-lighting a small start-up Art Department for a few weeks prior to leaping into full pre- production. During this phase, the designer would break down the script and identify the design and construction start-up priorities while working in tandem with the show's creators, managers, and location department in order to generate the essential preliminary designs and data that will B C A. DEE DEE AND GYPSY'S HOUSE INTERIOR. SKETCHUP PLAN BY TYLER TUNNEY. B. DEE DEE AND GYPSY'S BATHROOM. SKETCHUP MODEL BY HIND AL-SHANEEN. C. DEE DEE AND GYPSY'S BATHROOM. SET PHOTO. A

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