Work In Progress - The BFDG Podcast
Work In Progress - The BFDG Podcast
Building Frankenstein: Craft, Collaboration, and the Art of Production Design
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In the latest episode of Work in Progress, the British Film Designers Guild chair Jonathan Paul Green interviews the creative team behind Frankenstein—production designer Tamara Deverell, supervising art director Brandt Gordon, and set decorator Shane Vieau. The episode celebrates the film as the winning production in the Major Motion Picture – Period category at the 15th BFDG Production Design Awards. The team reflects on their varied career paths and collaborative dynamic, while detailing the intensive research and “real-for-real” craftsmanship behind the film’s Victorian and Arctic settings. They discuss logistical challenges, close collaboration with VFX, and the fast-paced demands of their director, while also sharing candid perspectives on AI and offering practical advice for emerging creatives.
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The Society of British Film Directors and Designers was founded in 1946. Out of this society grew the Guild of Film Art Directors, and the present British Film Designers Guild (BFDG). Today the BFDG has over 600 members of skilled technicians and designers spanning all the various branches of the Art Department, as well as corporate members.
The BFDG membership covers a diverse range of Art Department skills and experience, working on projects of all budgets, from International to Independent and micro-financed productions, to Feature Films, Shorts, Pilots, Promos, Commercials, TV Film, TV Series and Light Entertainment.