Author: Rebecca Whittington

PRESIDENT'S LETTER Through one of life’s delightful and unexpected turns I have just completed my first year as the APDG president. The APDG is a very different organisation to the one I first came to know in 2009. Perhaps not surprisingly, it its far more cohesively integrated into the Australian performance design culture and has [...]

International Production Design Week: A New Initiative To to Celebrate the Craft of Production Design Inspired by the experience of the inaugural Gathering in Greece last year, the Production Designers Collective will coordinate a week of events in October to globally promote the craft of production design. Following the significant success of the first-ever international [...]

APDG National Executive Screen Representative and production designer of Sweet As, Emma Fletcher shares her experience of a four day whirlwind trip Berlinale in Germany. During the Western Australia’s border closure in 2021, I was the production designer for Arenamedia’s Sweet As, a coming of age story about an at-risk Indigenous teenager. We filmed through Port Hedland, Karratha, South Hedland and Karijini [...]

Cutting-edge Los Angeles technology company NantStudios has built the world’s largest LED volume screen in Stage 1 at Docklands Studios Melbourne, lifting the city’s profile as the southern hemisphere hub for virtual production. The next-generation volume screen consists of 6,000 LED panels stacked 40’/12m high and 289’/88m wide and a 10’/3m deep water tank in [...]