Set Dressing: Before and After

Rarely is a location ever used exactly as it’s found.    In many cases, the art department will use the look of a location only as a starting point, and transform into a space that’s almost unrecognizable.   I’ve worked with production designer John Lavin on several projects now, and his team does an amazing job.   You can check out some great before-and-after pictures of various Lucky Them locations on John’s blog, The Portable Artist.

Speaking of Lucky Them, it premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival last month and has been receiving great reviews.   Watch for information on a release date very soon.   Meantime here’s a rather goofy shot of John and I scouting locations for One Square Mile last year– we were at a fish processing plant, thus the hairnets.