The world of the Art director

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The world of the Art director set designer

• BY Ashley Patey, Jena Richards,
• Fran Eagles Tabitha Powel.

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Art director

• The art director reports to the production
  designer, and more directly oversees artists and
  craftspeople, such as the set designer and set
  decorator, who carry out the production design.
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_crew

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Normal salary

• The normal salary for an Art director is
  104,262 but can range from 83,078 - 123,900
  on average.

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Education/Training

• Formal EducationThere is not really any way you
  can really prepare to become an art director.
  Although you need a bachelor's or master's
  degree. Suggested majors are art or graphic
  design. Other majors you might want to consider
  are Photographic arts or computer applications
  technology. What you want out of your career can
  pretty much let you know what major you are best
  suited for.

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Education Requirements

• -Ability and passion to create memorable moving
  images and advertising for a wide range of on-air
  and off air programming promotion. - Minimum of
  years of ad agency, broadcast network, or major
  cable network experience. - Must posses a
  demonstrable aptitude in creative problem solving
  and information gathering, with the ability to
  take a project from concept to completion. -
  Excellent verbal and written communication
  skills, superior time-management and
  organizational skills, with the aptitude to
  manage multiple projects and the ability to work
  in a collaborative, creative team environment
  providing art direction for the department and
  overall on-air brand development.
• http//variety.careercast.com/careers/jobsearch/de
  tail?jobId984407viewTypemainnetworkViewmain)

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Common career paths

• Art directing is not an entry-level job. Media of
  any sort would be a good place to start where you
  can gain experience and develop skills. Get
  experience by working as an assistant to an art
  Director. It really is a great way to get
  experience. Working on school newspapers or
  websites is a good way to prepare for entry-level
  jobs.

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Pre-production duties

• designing and setting up the production set.
• Consults the script and the director to create an
  authentic and believable set.
• Drafts the set design onto the studio floor plan.
  
• Oversee content design and production
• Set and approve the visual design and content.
• character development modeling, texturing,
  rigging, and animation.
• Understand the toolset and engine parameters
• Manage the art teams schedule.
• Stay current on game engine technology and art
  processes.

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Production

• to over see work done in pre production follows
  through and goes well with production.
• The art director does nothing with post
  Production.

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• Best suited for Job
• To be best suited for this job you would have to
  have the attributes for the job. Some of them are
  good communication skills, planning and
  organizing, innovation, good decision making, A
  leader etc.

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Good roles

• The madness of king George(1994) Adam,
  Ken(1921- )
• He won two academy Awards for art direction in
  this movie.
• Amadeus(1984) Brandenstein, Patrizia von 1948
• She won an academy award for art direction in
  this movie.
• Batman(1989) Furst, Anton(1944 1991)
• He won a academy award for art direction

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What goes wrong!!

• What goes wrong with an art director is they can
  come up with ideas for the film and the director
  may not like them
• causing a disagreement between the two people
  which could delay the production of the movie.

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Equipment used

• A lot of art directors can use computer software
  these days so the computer is the most used tool.
  The programs do quite a lot. When we researched
  it there was a lot of technical stuff that was
  hard to understand.

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Set Designer

• The set designer is the draftsman, often an
  architect, who realizes the structures or
  interior spaces called for by the production
  designer.
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_crew)

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Salary

• 30,500 to 46,000 per year or 14.75 to 22.00
  per hour

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Education/Training

• Minimum Education Required Associate (2-year)
  degree
• Recommended Education Bachelor's (4-year) degree
• Recommended High School Courses  Drama,
  Stagecraft, Literature, Communications,
  Broadcasting, History of Theatre, Art, and
  Industrial Arts
• Other Recommended Activities Act for an audience
  of any size, support others who are acting, or
  speak in public

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Education requirements

• You need a BA in Interior Design and an AA in
  Architecture. Some have Architecture degrees and
  some have no degrees at all .The only thing abut
  a set designer is the more education and
  experience, the better.
• Photoshop and Illustrator or Corel Draw are good
  to know. Vector Works is popular, and Rhino is
  often requested.
• Set design is one of the last hold-outs for
  preferring pencil drafting, computers are very
  slowly catching on.
• There are not many schools around. You can take
  classes in Set Design, Art Direction, and
  Production Design at UCLA Extension.

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Common career paths

• Theatre is a common path for a set designer to
  make and maintain the look of the sets.
• Another common path for a set designer is to
  design sets for a series of TV shows.
• Working with a film industry on making sets for a
  movie

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Pre-production

• -Build the set and make sure it is working
• -All set props, scenery, and whatever is used in
  the actual production has to be present.
• -Complete all painting by production
• -Present any changes to the original design.
• -Research

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Production-

• -Supervise the realization of visual solutions.
• The set designer does nothing in
  post-production.
• http//elokuvantaju.uiah.fi/2001/english/study_mat
  erial/scenography/lavastaja.jsp

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Best suited for job

• To be best suited for this job you would have to
  have the attributes for the job. Some of them are
  Be creative and imaginative, have an eye for
  color and detail, appreciate beauty, sketch well,
  work on your own and under pressure etc.

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Good roles

• Good Roles
• Dale Ferguson (Set design 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM
  COUNTY SPELLING BEE (2006 nominations)
• Adam Gardnir (Set design) Virgins
• all we could find

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What goes wrong!!!

• What goes wrong with the set designer is a set
  could break and they can lose some supplies they
  need in making the sets.

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Equipment

• Equipment associated with set director is
  building supplies such as hammers, nails, cloth,
  wood etc.

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• We hope you enjoyed our presentation.