Sets need to say different things in different scenes, and you have to know how to respond.
This post is written by Clarence Major III.
Regis Padoff (Christoph Waltz) is the perfect character to design around. Christoph Waltz brings a sinisterly brilliant, poignant, personality-piercing character at the center of the series The Consultant to life. He is a personality that can’t be identified with the history and is untraceable, but at the same time can’t be ignored in the present. He’s a freight train barreling toward us, and we can’t escape or look away.
His very presence evokes mystery, intrigue, and intense visceral fear. These ingredients allowed me to create a storytelling thread throughout my set design for the series. I often balanced on a precarious tightrope on whether to be covert or overt about the design intention in my choices. The scope was up for examination, everything from colors, texture, and light in the built scenery, set dressing, and props.
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This article comes from No Film School and can be read on the original site.
