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1
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The original name of the Art Director’s Society

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The Cinemagundi Club

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Special effects and Stop Motion animation - Star Wars, Jurassic Park

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Phil Tippett

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Famous model maker

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Derek Meddings - Live and Let Die, James Bond Films, Superman films

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Makeup department for The Exorcist, The Godfather, Taxi Driver

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dick smith

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5
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Production designer of Goldfinger, Dr. Strangelove, Barry Lyndon

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Ken Adam

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6
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The Art Director’s Breakdown sheet should contain the following

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Set title, INT or EXT, Day or Night, Scene number, page count, estimated cost

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7
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showed size and exact position of each set on every stage with backlot layouts and scheduling charts, organizes studio filming and set construction

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Set condition plans

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Managed the team of set designers, supervise set construction. Assume the duties of Art Direction so the Art Director could have more time for meetings, location surveys, and time by camera

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Asst. Art Director

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9
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Was familiar with every film in production at the studio. They read every new script under consideration by the studio and gives opinion on the visual opportunities each offered and who might best be assigned to it.

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Supervising Art Director

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Draftsman who drew blueprints - working drawings with measurement so the craftsmen could construct the sets, props, and vehicles.

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Set designers

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11
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In charge of the Drafting Room

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Chief Draftsman or Drafting Room Art Director

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12
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Usually have backgrounds in fine arts or advertising art. Accurate at depicting a set in correct perspective as the camera would see it.

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Set illustrators

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13
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Make Scale Models of the sets

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Model makers

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14
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printed blueprints and often doubled as a file clerk

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blueprinter

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15
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Models must be shot at

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High Speed

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16
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Paints backdrops

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painter

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17
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The Foreman is also a

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draftsman

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18
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Construction Coordinator Reports to

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ARt direc tor

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19
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The costume wig and makeup do not really come under the Art Dept bu

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works closely with Art department

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20
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Set dressers also called

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swing gang

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21
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Touch up paint on props and sets when chipped during shooting

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standby painter

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22
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Master Carpenter designed the sets for

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intolerance

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23
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If a product is used in an unfavorable way you need to get clearance

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clearances

24
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Do not dictate a cost to the Art Department

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Negotiate what can be changed in the script

25
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3 phases of budget

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Preliminary budget - before spending
Locked budget - finalized
Working budget - spending

26
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Preproduction costs of set construction

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Labor, materials, rentals, locations

27
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First special effects, French illusionist and film director, innovator in special effects in the early days of cinema. Most Famous movie: A Trip to the Moon

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George melies

28
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Special Effects Creator, movies include: Clash of the Titans and Jason and the Argonauts.

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Ray Harryhausen

29
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Name three types of special effects

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Foreground miniature, Cobwebs - glue/cobweb gun, Pneumatic squibs in the ground for bullets, Pneumatic cylinder used to flip a vehicle

30
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The difference between the estimated cost for a day of shooting and the real cost of the previous day’s shoot.

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hot cost

31
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The great pitfall for any backing scheme is a misplaced

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horizon

32
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Removable walls on a constructed set are also referred to as

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wild walls

33
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When setting up the on location workshop space, the Art Director should review it carefully with the Construction Coordinator to determine if the space has the following three necessary criteria

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Power Capacity
Drains and water supply
Layout space for construction of sets

34
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A Set Decorator’s crew consisting of a Leadman, dressers, and a driver or two is often referred to as a

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swing gang

35
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The Art Director’s BLANK should provide hardware for doors, sign plaques and hanging signs.

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construction crew

36
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The space to be used as a soundstage should be far removed from BLANK sources as possible.

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noise

37
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We screened the film Two Soldiers. List the year, geographical location, and situation in which the story takes place.

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  • 1941
  • Mississippi
  • Beginning of US involvement in WWII
38
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The Art Department will provide BLANK in case of inclement weather so that the movie may stay on schedule.

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cover set

39
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For what film did William Cameron Menzies receive the first Production Designer credit?

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gone with the wind

40
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The first Art Director to receive screen credit as a Production Designer was

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William Cma Menzies

41
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The creative triumvirate on a film consists of what three positions?

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The creative triumvirate on a film consists of what three positions?
Director, Cinematographer, Production Designer

42
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Anything an actor touches is considered a BLANK. Anything else is BLANK

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prop/set dressing

43
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Equally effective as contrast is the concept of

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placement

44
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The term BLANK has been used to mean an indefinable quality of reality that lifts a film, a performance, of a setting out of the ordinary into the hollowed halls of filmmakers’ Valhalla.

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texture

45
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BLANK and BLANK are mainly the domain of the Director of Photography but not entirely.

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light and shadow

46
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When making any kind of estimate, the greatest single factor in the process is

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experience

47
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A handy supplement to the construction budget is a

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back up sheet

48
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For cost accounting purposes, each set is given a

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set number

49
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Keeping the clearances and the need for clearances in order for the art department is the responsibility of the

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Art Department Coord

50
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Legal research - the clearing of character names, places, publications, etc. - is usually handled b

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producer’s staff

51
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To fully understand the personality of the lead characters in a script, the art director must wrap a life around them. This is done by the research. It is the single most important phase of

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design process

52
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To help give real vitality to the sets and locations, include design elements that will help establish a

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time and place

53
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The best single source of research

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technical advisor

54
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The title Art Director took some time in emerging. The first sets were often designed by:

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master carpenter

55
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The original name of the Art Director’s Society

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cinemagundi club

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