How do you take Los Angeles back to its 100-year-old roots? Production designer Florencia Martin shows us how!
We’ve seen Hollywood transform Los Angeles in the movies for years. Los Angeles has become a playground for cinema from its infancy as a deserted land of hopes and dreams to the battleground of some of the biggest action movies of the year.
The city has been transformed once again for Damien Chazelle’s Babylon. Camouflaged in the opulence and excess of the 1920s in what was once no man’s land, production designer Florencia Martin had to find a way to make Los Angeles become a character.
“We were able to showcase the formation of the city,” Martin told Variety. “We wanted the audience to feel the heat and the inhospitable nature of that environment, and the contrast of this incredible time where people were forming the city, fantastically and extravagantly.”
Martin’s transformation of the city was not easy, but she broke down how she created the fantasy of what Los Angeles could and would be through her production design in Babylon.
Author: Alyssa Miller
This article comes from No Film School and can be read on the original site.
