Fuck-Up #38
“We Don’t Need an Art Department”
What these people really do and why you really need them
“Any time you talk about the look of the film, it’s not just the directorand the director of photography. You have to includethe costume designer and the production designer.”4
—Spike Lee
The Fuck-Up…
Some new filmmakers view their art department needs as relatively minimal and thus attempt to go at it without an official art department. However, they quickly discover this job is a lot more work than they fully appreciated and are left scrambling to pick up the slack left by not having the right people on board to focus on their art department needs. Worse yet, their movie is now suffering from this mistake both behind the camera and in ...
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