How can we communicate our initial ideas as a production designer more clearly to the other department heads during the development phase of a film?
End 2024, beginning 2025 I joined the residency at the Vrijplaats from Filmforward. Filmforward set up a program for people that work within the field of film in the Netherlands and would like to professionalise or focus on a certain aspect of their profession. This year we're with 5 production designers from the Netherlands working on different research questions. I’ve started working on a roadmap for the pre-production of a production designer. Online I made a Inquiry and asked a few collegues for their contribution concerning; how to approach research?
I would like to understand how colleagues dive into different sources of information and how they filter that material towards the other heads of department. Goal: mapping the pre-production and create a road-map. Why? In order to communicate more clearly what the needs are in pre-production. That hopefully results in a more coherent design.
After the first steps I started working with Christian Echenique to create an interactive roadmap. We presented our idea in Amsterdam on July the 2nd. To be continued..
extract below of the first inquiry:
“What are the concepts of the way we think and approach, how can we hack that? “ New ways of narrative to change the world. Framing the narrative. The ability to tell story’s.”