The two worlds of Director Guillermo Del Toro’s Nightmare Alley feel at times like textural contrasts. “It was almost like working on two films,” according to Tamara Deverell, the film’s production designer, “from the carny world where everything had a faded patina and was a little rough around the edges … to high society, where we wanted everything to be really rich and sumptuous and enticing.”
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Constructing Houses for a Film Set. If you’re a fan of Harry Potter films, you probably have a feeling for the grand sense of scale that set designers must deal with. From the daunting magical haunts of Hogwarts Castle to the mundane abode of the Dursleys on Privet Drive, everything had to be built in exquisite detail. Just not maybe as you thought.
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Oh, yeah, it’s movie night, and whether you’re a film buff or a binge TV watcher, you grab a beverage, an assortment of snacks, and dim the lights as you settle into the world of your favorite story. Could be the gritty western reimagined world of Yellowstone, or how about the mind bending an eerie world of time travel that is Dark? For the sake of argument, why not a recent fan favorite, Game of Thrones. So you’re watching that final season; Jon Snow celebrates with his fellow Northmen while Daenerys watches from a dark corner–the torches flicker their medieval light, the stone walls capture the dankness of a castle, everything seems just as it should be.
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Passing from one place, realm, or room to another requires a passageway that often resembles a door, and the use of doors to illustrate a wide variety of human interactions such as passage, adventure, magic, mystery, or barriers is very present in many epic films.
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The Iconic Set Design Behind Hulu’s ‘The Great’ What makes modern set design iconic when it comes to recreating period
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