Jade Healy
Production Design Digest
English - August 25, 2020 21:29 - 2 hours - 235 MBFilm Interviews TV & Film Film History Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Jade Healy is a story-teller at heart and a Production Designer by trade, working primarily in feature films. Her impressive 38 (and counting) critically acclaimed IMDB credits include ‘I, Tonya’, ‘Marriage Story’, ‘The Killing of a Sacred Deer’, ‘A Beautiful Day In The Neighbourhood’, ‘Ain’t Them Bodies Saints’, ‘Pete’s Dragon’, ‘Ghost Story’, ‘The Sacrement’, ‘In A Valley of Violence’, ‘Mississippi Grind’, and the upcoming ‘The Green Knight’ and Walt Disney’s ‘Peter Pan’ … just to name but a few.
Jade and Production Design Digest host, Kelly Sinclair Smith, discuss her incredible multi-faceted career journey, their shared love of lamps, how she made her break into the industry and started designing films early on in her career, what she’s learnt along the way and how her love for story-telling is the driving force in everything she does. “Just because something looks amazing doesn’t mean it’s right for the character, or the film. I like to think I’ve learned to practice more control. My goal is to always create sets that push the narrative forward, not distract from it” explains Jade.
In this episode with Kem White we cover:
How Jade made her break in the industry
Her hands-on approach to designing
Lamps, lamps and more lamps
What she looks for in a script
Her “dos and don’ts” of production design
How she’s progressed throughout her career and the crucial lessons she’s learnt along the way
The importance of putting story and character first when it comes to designing
What it’s like working with different directors and how to adapt to their individual styles of filmmaking
The use of negative space within her sets and why she’s come to appreciate it
Her beauftiful use of colour and texture, and how she develops them
The heavily researched look-books she puts together for each film and first-time director meetings, and why it’s important to still spend the time making one regardless of wether or not she does the job
‘Imposter Syndrome’ - what it is and how she’s overcome it
How to avoid being pigeonholed as a Production Designer
The importance of being yourself
And much more!
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Show Links:
In The Mood For Love IMDB | Production Design by William Chang
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Jade Healy is represented by Mira Yong at WME
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Kelly Sinclair Smith is represented by Vision Artists
Original Score by Joe Davies