Elements of Design

Elements of Design

Sheila Lewis

ENG 225 Introduction to Film

Prof. Kathryn Graham

May 26, 2013

The scene that I chose that was in movie clips was from "Waiting to Exhale", which was when Bernadette burnt all of her husband's clothes in the front yard after he made a statement that he was leaving her for another women which was white. This movie was based on the book written by Terry McMillian. In this movie there were a lot of people involved in this movie and some of them that was included are:

Director: Forest Whitaker

Production Designer: David Gropman

Art director: Mar Fisichella

Forest Whitaker was the leader of this movie and his role as the director were to make it so that the tone of the movie was set. He is the one that is in charge of making sure that the actors remembers their lines correctly and also by making sure that the actors are properly portraying the characters that they are going to be in the film. The directors are also the ones that have the final say when a movie is filmed before present it out for viewing. He also is in charge of making the final choose to the film as well as the appearance if he wants. In "Waiting to Exhale", David Gropman is responsible for making the script into something that you could visualize. The production designer may also make decisions about the colors to be used in the movie and so often he provides many important suggestions about the way things are arranged in the individual showing of the movie. The production designer works with different departments like:

Engineering

Marketing

Sales

The production designers are the ones that get involved in the production design and/or the selections of many of the visual effects, lighting, props and set dressing. Marc Fisichella is the art director in the movie. In the movie his role is to support and follow through on the visual idea for the production as stated by the production designer and director. Art directors are sometimes responsible for completely or in a part for many departments within the production. Art director's gives tasks to production, electrical, set and lighting designers, bringing those roles together to give the director's vision to life.

The design of the set is very important to the film production so that it carry out the director's vision. There is a research team that consists of talented individuals which includes set designers, prop masters, graphic designers, costume designers and other artists which performs tasks