Film Production Design
The creation of worlds within which stories take place can be both challenging and rewarding on large and small films, period and contemporary, local and international, using traditional scenographic techniques or designing for digitally created environments.
Case Studies
King Kong
One of Hollywood’s most classic films is remade in New Zealand using the very latest digital technologies and massive studio sets. Based in 1930’s New York the story takes us via a tramp steamer to a mysterious island somewhere near Java.
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Three and a half years of painstaking work, over 350 sets and locations, multi-million dollar budgets, hundreds of builders, painters, makers. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy was as much an epic in the making as it was a motion picture phenomenon.
Whale Rider
This highly acclaimed film needed a design approach that fitted seamlessly into the natural environment of a small coastal Maori village.
The Frighteners
Shot in Wellington and Christchurch and starring Michael J Fox this comedy/ horror involves a psychic detective on the hunt for a deceased serial killer. Huge fun to watch and to make.
Kitchen Sink
Although Kitchen Sink was made over 15 years ago it remains a classic of the short film genre containing horror, fantasy and feminism - all within a 12 minute time-span.
An Angel at my Table
Covering a 30 year time period this story of one of New Zealand’s great writers, Janet Frame, went on to win many international awards including the Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival.