VM_ set design portfolio 2023

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The following selected projects show some examples of my work within the commercial and editorial set design field during in my time with Studio Tiche. Main skills: Set dressing & prop buying, art direction

STUDIO TICHE X MOLOTOF STUDIO (2023)

COMMERCIAL PRODUCT PHOTOSHOOT OMIA, ACQUA ALLE ROSE, BIPOD

Molotof Studio, Milan

Here shown are a series of examples of set design for advertising campaigns/ commercial photoshoots.

Key skills/outcomes: Set design, styling, budgeting, prop sourcing, set dressing.

BOOLEAN (2023)

COMMERCIAL PHOTOSHOOT ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN

Boolean, Milan

The brief was to create 3 differents sets (house office, office/ co-working space and home living area) in 2 variations / scenarios, one to represent web developers and the other Data analysts.

Due to budget restrictions, the sets were created entirely in studio and mainly with the available props and furniture. The work consisted in set decorating, prop sourcing and prop selection, styling and set dressing.

Key skills/outcomes: Set styling, set design, prop sourcing, set dressing.

ART AND SET ART AND SET

DECORATION DECORATION

The following selected projects show some examples of my work within the Art and Set decoration Departments for Film & TV from the past few years across different roles and tasks:

Stand-by art directing, set dressing & prop buying, art department assisting and draughting.

FREEZE THE FEAR WITH WIM HOF (2022)

TV REALITY SHOW, SEASON 1 BBC PRODUCTIONS, ITALY

Hungry Bear Media for BBC.

Production Design: Bizibot design - Mathieu Weekes

Art director: Emily Dyson

Holly Willoughby and Lee Mack follow eight celebrities embarking on a once-in-a-lifetime adventure in the Italian mountains in sub-zero conditions. Over the course of a few weeks, the celebrities face a series of daunting, cold challenges designed to push their minds and bodies to the limit. Along the way, the celebrities are guided by recordbreaking, extreme athlete, Wim Hof, AKA ‘The Ice Man’, who believes that embracing the cold has the ability to change their lives for the better. The series is executive produced by Dan Baldwin for Hungry Bear Media, and is distributed by BBC Studios.

My credited role is Art director. My role changed throughout the production - from set decorating and dressing to stand-by art directing. I worked independently in Milan for the first weeks, prop sourcing and buying, organising pick ups and deliveries on set before joining the rest of the crew in Val D’Aosta (where the physical set was built) to dress it and then art directing once the shoot started.

Key skills/outcomes: Set decoration, styling, budgeting, organization and management, stand-by art directing.

ON LOCATION PHOTOS - SET DRESSING

TRUST (2018)

TV SERIES, SEASON 1 FX PRODUCTIONS, LONDON

Directors: Danny Boyle, Dawn Shadforth, Jonathan van Tulleken, Susanna White

Production Designer: Suttirat Larlarb; Set Decorator: Stella Fox; Sup. Art director: Patrick Rolfe

Inspired by actual events, `Trust’ delves into the trials and triumphs of one of America’s wealthiest and unhappiest families, the Gettys. Equal parts family history, dynastic saga and an examination of the corrosive power of money, `Trust’ explores the complexities at the heart of every family, rich or poor. Told over multiple seasons and spanning the 20th century, the series begins in 1973 with the kidnapping of John Paul Getty III, an heir to the Getty oil fortune, by the Italian mafia in Rome. His captors banked on a multimilliondollar ransom. But Paul’s grandfather, enigmatic oil tycoon J. Paul Getty Sr. -- possibly the richest man in the world -- is busy being marooned in a Tudor mansion in the English countryside with a harem of mistresses and a pet lion. Paul’s father, J. Paul Getty Jr., is lost in a daze in London and refuses to answer the phone. Only Paul’s mother, Gail Getty, is left to negotiate with the increasingly desperate kidnappers. Unfortunately, she’s broke.

My role was Art Department Assistant. Personal assistant to production designer, assisting art directors, graphic designer and stand-by art director. I was also sent out to Calabria as part of a detached UNIT to dress the locations and stand-by art directing while shooting.

Key skills/outcomes: Location survey, CAD draughting, model making, set dressing, graphic design, stand-by art directing, art department organisation, time and budget management

ON LOCATION PHOTOS - SET DRESSING

VICTORIA AND ABDUL (2017)

LIVE ACTION FEATURE FILM BBC FILMS & WORKING TITLE FILMS, LONDON

Director: Stephen Frears

Production Designer: Alan MacDonald; Set Decorator: Michael Standish

Sup. Art director: Choi Ho Man

Period comedy drama. Mainly location based (UK & India). The film follows the relationship between Queen Victoria and Abdul Karim, in the last years of her reign. As their friendship deepens despite all the criticism, the queen begins to see a changing world through new eyes, joyfully reclaiming her humanity.

My credited role was Art Department Runner. General support and assistance to all of the Art Department and stand-by set dressing.

Key skills/outcomes: Petty cash buying, stand-by and set dressing, graphics, monitoring and ordering art and office supplies, modelmaking, surveying, basic running duties between the Art Department office, the drawing and construction studios and the production office.

SCREENSHOTS FROM THE FILM

SET DRESSING

ON LOCATION PHOTOS - SET DRESSING

ON LOCATION PHOTOS - SET DRESSING FINAL OUTCOME SCREENSHOTS

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (2017)

LIVE ACTION FEATURE FILM WALT DISNEY’S PICTURES, LONDON

Director: Bill Condon

Production Designer: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decorator: Katie Spencer

Art director: Choi Ho Man

The film is a live-action/CGI-animated remake of Disney’s 1991 animated film of the same name, itself an adaptation of Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont’s eighteenthcentury fairy tale. A young woman, Belle, whose father has been imprisoned by a terrifying beast offers herself in his place, unaware that her captor is actually a prince, physically altered by a magic spell.

I was selected for the curricular internship whilst at Wimbledon College of Art. General support and assistance to the Set Decorating and Art departments. After my experience, I was called in and offered a Daily Set Dec. Department Assistant contract to work on the exterior locations (making props/dressing).

Key skills/outcomes: Model making, research, graphics, preparing presentation mount boards, documenting and sampling, prop making/styling.

RESEARCH, CHOOSING COLOUR

PALETTE AND ILLUSTRATING DRAWINGS FOR CHOI HO MAN

FILMING & MODELMAKING FILMING & MODELMAKING

MODELMAKING MODELMAKING

A selection of personal projects that show some example of my work within the Production design and Art direction field, especially focusing on skills such as:

Modelmaking, set design, set dressing, location sourcing, filming.

PINOCCHIO

PRODUCTION DESIGN STUDIO BA DEGREE THESIS PROJECT

Professors: E. Bo, K. Bradley

Fantasy live-action adaptation of “Pinocchio”, based on Walt Disney’s animation (1940) and the original story by C.Collodi (1883). About the mischievous adventures of an animated marionette named Pinocchio created by his father, a poor woodcarver named Geppetto. Set in Sicily, sometime in the second half of the 1800s. Using the “Earth” and “Sea” themes as key narrative and design tools, the project mainly focuses on locations, specific sets and scenes, while also giving an overall look for the story through research and visuals.

Key skills/outcomes: Research, Location & scene breakdown, Location scouting & adaptation, Set dressing & styling, Technical drawing, Model making, Filming & Editing, Graphics, Concept art and Rendering.

SKETCH & CONCEPT ART

THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER

PRODUCTION DESIGN STUDIO, STOP MOTION ANIMATION

Professors: E. Bo, K. Bradley

Work team: Viviana Motta, Bo Ram Lee

Fantasy melodrama stop motion adaptation of “The Ant and the Grasshopper”, based on Aesop’s fable. The fable follows a pretty Grasshopper enjoying life and a hardworking Ant as the seasons pass. When winter and war come, the Ant is prepared and sheltered as he worked hard to store up food for winter whereas the grasshopper finds herself dying of hunger and cold.

The fable teaches the moral lessons about the virtues of hard work and planning for the future.

First year Bachelors final year project.

Key skills/outcomes: Research, Screenwriting, Collaboration, Storyboarding, Prop making, Animation, Set design, Model making, Filming & Editing, Concept art.

SHOOTING SNAPSHOTS

FINAL OUTCOME SCREENSHOTS

INITIAL SKETCHES & SET DESIGN SCHEME

REALISED SETS - BUILT MODELS