Production Design involves creating settings and styles- whether based in reality
or fantasy- to establish the specific aesthetic of a feature film, television show ...
M.F.A. in Production Design The beautifully staged world of Anna Karenina. Lost at sea with a tiger at your tail in Life of Pi. Surviving in the dangerous future of Pacific Rim. Partying hard in the opulence of The Great Gatsby. To losing yourself down a rabbit hole in Alice in Wonderland.
Production Design involves creating settings
and styles- whether based in reality or fantasyto establish the specific aesthetic of a feature film, television show, or even a commercial. The Production Designer creates the physical and visual world of a film. In collaboration with his/her associates, the production designer guides such crafts as, for example: Set décor, visual effects, special effects, & costume design, to establish a unified look and feel to visually tell the story.
Student production Nekko.
If production design is your dream, creating a world entirely of its own for a film, Chapman University’s Dodge College of Film and Media Arts is your place for getting the hands-on education you need to break into this challenging field. Both the practical and aesthetic experience of designing for film is emphasized in an intensive two-year program. Course work such as: Set Design & Decoration, Computer Generated Imagery, Storyboarding & set illustration, ultimately bringing it all together in designing several realized thesis films of your own. But you won’t work alone. You will be forming creative teams with your fellow students- screenwriters, directors, producers, cinematographers, sound and visual editors- all coming together to realize a unified vision. In addition to designing actualized films, in class you will expound flights of fancy designing worlds unto themselves for yet unrealized tales for the silver screen.
Student production Nekko.
By the close of your two years of study, you’ll have amassed a solid Portfolio of Production Designs to showcase your talent and perform as your personal calling card to the film and television industry here in Southern California.
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Production Design Faculty John Chichester, Director of Production Design
Credits include: Get him to the Greek, Star Trek: Nemesis, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, House Bunny, American Family, Prey for Rock and Roll, Tropic Thunder, Team America Industry Affiliations: IASTE Local#800; The Art Directors Guild: Production Designer, Art Director, & Set Designer; United Scenic Artists Local # 829, Scenic Designer Education: Masters of Fine Arts in Production Design, New York University
Mel Cooper, Set Décor Professor
Credits include: The Mindy Project, W., Melissa & Joey, Gilmore Girls, Seinfeld, Almost Home, Moonlighting Industry Affiliations: Academy of Television Arts and Sciences; Set Decorators Society of America; IATSE Local 44 (Set Decorators); IATSE Local 800 (Art Directors) Education: Bachelor of Arts in Interior Design, California State University, Northridge
Melina Root, Costume Design Professor
Credits include: Guys with Kids, Brothers & Sisters, Miss Guided, That ‘70s Show, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Wayne’s World 2 Industry Affiliations: Costume Designers Guild; IASTE local #892; United Scenic Artists; Local 829; and costume designer Education: Master of Fine Arts in Costume Design, Yale University
Ernest Marjoram, Storyboards, & Perspective Illustration Professor
Credits include: worked as a contract artist for Walt Disney Imagineering helping to develop DisneyQuest in Orlando, Fla. Industry Affiliations: American Institute of Architects; American Society of Interior Designers Education: Bachelor of Science in Architecture, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Chapman University
Dodge College of Film and Media Arts
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