Product Description
Whether you'd like to be an art director or already are one, this book contains valuable solutions that will help you get ahead. This comprehensive, thorough professional manual details the set-up of the art department and the day-to-day job duties: scouting for locations, research, executing the design concept, constructing scenery, and surviving production. You will not only learn how to do the job, but how to succeed and secure future jobs. Rounding out the text is an extensive collection of useful forms and checklists, along with interviews with prominent art directors, relevant real-life anecdotes, and blueprints, sketches, photographs, and stills from Hollywood sets.
*Thorough, practical, on-the-job manual for art directors for film containing anecdotes, interviews, and illustrations from actual sets
*Written by the art director of films such as Vanilla Sky, JFK, and My Cousin Vinny
*Includes valuable career advice from an insider
Product Details
| Publisher | Focal Press |
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| Author | Michael Rizzo |
| Label | Focal Press |
| Dewey Decimal Number | 791.43025 |
| Studio | Focal Press |
| Number Of Pages | 352 |
| Title | The Art Direction Handbook for Film |
| Release Date | 2005-07-15 |
| Publication Date | 2005-07-15 |
| Manufacturer | Focal Press |
Customer Reviews
Great BookReview by Sharon Kramer, 2009-01-30
This book was a great help to me. It is full of lots of useful information and clearly defines the role of an art director.
More than just how to.........
Review by Richard Giesbret, 2005-11-08
Understanding exactly what anyone does professionally is not easily described. Considering how many areas of knowledge are required in Art Direction, it's daunting to try. Nonetheless, Michael Rizzo gets well beyond the job description.
He offers not just insight about the technical and artistic worlds of art direction, but suggests that entire other world of underlying, temporary social, economic and artistic relations that unfold as a production takes on a life of it's own. It's a more interesting read than one might expect.
Rizzo paints with a broad brush, adding bits of detail, insight and includes the basics too. He rounds out a very recognizable portrayal of the competing technical, managerial and artistic demands.
The realm of perspective, perseverance and judgment are often a matter of individual experience, where are no maps are provided. Helpfully, Rizzo touches on these areas through interviews and advice, pointing to a larger sense of the demands on one's personal responsibility.
It becomes apparent throughout the book, that regardless of how movies may actually be created, effectively yoking the artistic and technical sensibilities are an absolute necessity. Rizzo makes it clear that the sine qua non of art direction, the artistic chops to envision and execute the visual concept, is the touchstone.
Informative and visual!
Review by Masako Masuda, 2005-10-24
Informative, visual, with many insightful interviews! Nobody has ever told our everyday work life from inside like this book.Its technical yet personal approach explains how we really communicate and create in the art department. It is also exciting and valuable to read my peers' approaches and thoughts. This book will guide you through the traditional art direction process, and prepare you for the digital filmmaking. Highly recommended to all film schools and to anyone who wants to know about the art department!
