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ART DIRECTOR
When a copy of the scenario is given to the art director he studies it with his mind on the period of the plot and location. If the story is a costume or historical one, he awaits the results obtained in the research department.
The functioning of the
Set for a mutiny town scene built in natural surroundings.
arranges with the actors regarding salary, etc.
The general process that every story passes through is much the same whether it is a star's feature or an all-star production.
RESEARCH
Finishing the scenario is only the first step up the film ladder. The next one is verification of technicalities and historical occurrences. Every studio employs a staff who do nothing but thumb many hundred books in search of architectural, costume and historical data bearing on the scenario. The data is sent to the wardrobe department and the art director.
Then the art director starts the designing of sets. If they are interiors, he plans to have them built as the company progresses to the point in the story where the set is called for. The smaller sets are drawn up and the construction manager works from blue-prints. But where a huge interior must be built, this plan has just lately come into practice: the set is first made in miniature form. This avoids possible errors in construction and saves time in building.
A Charles Ray set; a ship built right on the studio lot.
art department is taken up in full farther on in Mr. Webster's article, "The Art of the Art Director."
The exterior scenes are not always taken against natural backgrounds. Sometimes the story calls for a street in a village with
A section of the wardrobe department.
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