Understanding Production Design ― Using Design and Locations to Tell Your Story

With Understanding Production Design: Using Design and Locations to Tell Your Story on a Budget, learn how to use production design and locations to your maximum advantage and create an effective and compelling visual story. Discover how to find, secure, and manage the best locations and create, build and dress a set – all on a tight budget. By combing an in-depth study of a wide range of preproduction and production topics with interviews with production designers, location managers, directors, producers, and cinematographers at the top of their fields, author Barbara Doyle gives a detailed, step-by-step guide to planning the overall visual design of a project.

Barbara Doyle began her film career as the assistant to the Senior VP of Worldwide Production at Tri-Star Pictures. She continued to work her way up the freelance production ladder as a Production Coordinator and Production Supervisor on projects for CBS, NBC, Disney, TNT, Showtime, Hearst Entertainment, Hallmark, 20^th Century Fox, Morgan Creek Productions and Alcon Entertainment. She is the current Professor of Producing and head of the College to Career Program at Chapman University's Dodge College of Film and Media, and former Associate Dean of Production at the American Film Institute. She continues to consult on production for narrative and documentary film projects.