The Art Direction Handbook for Film

by Michael Rizzo

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 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. Due to an error on the part of the publisher, the correct credit for Figure 3.8 was omitted. Figure 3.8 is © Disney Enterprises, Inc. We apologize for this error.

Genres: Film, Design, Nonfiction, Collections

333 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2005

Reviews

[Marc Hampson]

There are a lot of books out there that claim to offer insight into the various aspects of filmmaking promising insider information but often only offer broad interviews with accomplished figures about their experiences. While having it's place in an education, there is a time more often than not when you need hard quantifiable facts.

This book offers the best of both worlds which reads as a seemingly endless archive of applicable information AND insight. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who is taking a SERIOUS look at becoming a part of any film's art department.