Short Course - Production Design (Level 1)

Credit Points : 0.5

Award :Certificate Production Design – Level 1
   

Overview

From early in pre-production, the production designer collaborates with the director and director of photography to establish the visual feel and specific aesthetic needs of the project. The production designer guides key personnel in other departments such as the costume designer, the key hair and make-up artists and the locations manager (among others) to establish a unified visual appearance to the film.

The Production Design – Level1 course offers a unique specialized training in the basic responsibilities of a Production Designer, with respect to the aesthetic aspects and practical skills needed to create the visual impact of a film.

Learning Objectives 

- To comprehend the importance of pre production – research and script breakdown

- To learn about the significance of colors, props, costumes, locations etc.

- To understand components of set construction

- To learn different components of set dressing

Course Content

- Components of Production Design

- Defining job responsibilities of a Production Designer’s team

- Script Study

- Script Breakdown

- Research skills

- Character Study

- Color Theory

- Prop selection

- Elementary principles of Costume designing

- Elementary principles of Prosthetics

- Locations vs Constructed Sets

- Workflow of set construction

- Budgeting

- Set Dressing

- Project

Each Class will be 30% Theory and 70% Demonstration; will have Supervised Hands On sessions with a follow-up project assignment to monitor learning curve.

Course Heads

Salim Arif

Salim Arif, HOD, Production Design at WWI, is an alumnus of the National School of Drama (NSD), New Delhi, having specialised in Direction. He has also researched on the interaction between traditional and contemporary Indian theatre. Beginning as a Costume Designer on prestigious productions for television such as Shyam Benegal’s Bharat Ek Khoj, Gulzar’s Mirza Ghalib, Nirja Guleri’s Chandrakanta and Chandraprakash Dwivedi’s Chanakya etc., Salim Arif has gone on to be a Film and Stage Designer. He has worked on films such as Ketan Mehta’s Sardar (1993), Gulzar’s Maachis (1996) and Hu Tu Tu (1999), Govind Nihalani’s Thakshak (1999) and Mani Ratnam’s Guru. Innovative in approach, and exploring new contents for staging, he is one of the noted directors of the Hindi theatre scene in India, with numerous plays such as Aapki Soniya, Kachche Lamhe,  Kharaashein and Lakeerein and events like Octave 2010 to his credit. Salim Arif also teaches as Visiting Faculty at institutes like the National Institute of Fashion Technology, (NIFT), National Institute of Design (NID) and the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII).

Sabyasachi Bose

Sabyasachi Bose, Faculty in Production Design at WWI, graduated from the Government College of Art and Craft, Calcutta (now, Kolkata) in 1992. In 1994, he began his career in the field of Production Design under the tutelage of Bijon Das Gupta. He then went on to work with Sanjay Dhabade and finally with Samir Chanda.

Sabyasachi has been involved in film projects that include Raja (1995), Barsaat (1995), Gupt- The Hidden Secret (1997), Judaai (1997), Chocolate – A Deep Dark Secret (2005) and Krrish (2006), besides TV serials such as Chandrakanta, the theatre production, Legend of Rama, along with shows such as Manikchand Filmfare Awards, Hum Ek Hai, and ad shows for companies like Samsung, Onida, BPL, MRF Tyres, Apollo Tyres, Tata, Britannia, Times of India, Anandalok etc.

Simultaneously, as an artist, he has continued to participate in many prestigious group shows such as, 'Exhibition' organised by 'Indian International Art Centre' at Kolkata in1992, 'Open Air-1994' organised by Birla Academy of Art and Culture at Kolkata, 'Annual Art Exhibition- 1996-97' organised by The Art Society of India (Mumbai), 'Annual Art Exhibition' organised by Indian Society of Oriental Art at Kolkata in 1999, '9th Harmony Show' organised by the Art Trust, co-organised by the Textile Division, Relience Industries at Mumbai (2004) and 'Art Watch' organised by Galerie 88 at Kolkata (2004).