Dick Lunn
Production Design Digest
English - July 09, 2020 11:09 - 1 hour - 84.1 MBFilm Interviews TV & Film Film History Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Dick Lunn is a Production Designer for Film, TV and Commercials. Dick’s production design credits include ‘The End of the F***ing World’ (2019), Next of Kin (2018), Humans (2015), Man Up (2015), The Survivalist (2015), Cuban Fury (2014), Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (2013), The Inbetweeners Movie (2011), Four Lions (2010), and the upcoming Netflix series; The Duchess.
Dick and Production Design Digest host, Kelly Sinclair Smith, discuss his career, all the different aspects of production design that he’s drawn to, his favourite go-to photography books for references, his approach to designing visually pleasing spaces through the use of symmetry and incorporating the camera’s aspect ratio within his set designs to create interesting frames.
In this episode with Dick Lunn we cover:
Dick’s journey into Production Design, and how his degree in modern history created a solid foundation for being able to reference and research different jobs
How having parents who were both art teachers influenced his love of art, and how studying art history and renaissance artists, such as Hieronymus Bosch, taught him about composition, lighting and how creating lines within a picture can draw the viewers eye to specific focal points
How his time spent as a runner, prop master and art director prepared him for his career as a Production Designer
His approach to designing for the screen, and how important it is to consider the camera movement and the blocking within a scene when designing a set
How he uses symmetry within his set designs to bring structure to the space and create visually appealing compositions
His long-standing working relationship with his set decorator and what makes it such a successful collaboration between them
The textures, colours and detailed props within the sets of ‘The End of the F***ing World’ (S2), and how Dick created the look of a British/Americana fusion for the series
And much more!
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Art History for Filmmakers | by Gillian Mclver
Inside North Korea | by Oliver Wainwright
The Ruins of Detroit | by Yves Marchand
Two and One Quarter | by William Eggleston
Cathedral of the Pines | by Gregory Crewdson
Early Works | by Martin Parr
Hustlers | by Philip-Lorca diCorcia
Modern Colour | by Fred Herzog
Blade Runner (1982) IMDB | Production Design by Lawrence G. Paull
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Dick Lunn is represented by Echo Artists
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Kelly Sinclair Smith is represented by Vision Artists
Original Score by Joe Davies