Blog page - Australian Production Design Guild

The Culture and Climate Report

April 3, 2023 Rebecca Whittington Comments Off

Though not strictly 'design' focused, I want to share information about the recently released Culture for Climate: a preliminary study into how Australian performing arts organisations are responding to the global environmental crisis report, which I peer reviewed last month for the newly-formed Performance and Ecology Research Lab [P+ERL] based at Griffith University in QLD. The Climate for [...]

Climate and Sustainable Production Training

March 30, 2023 Rebecca Whittington Comments Off

Ontario Green Screen offers FREE Climate Change and Sustainability training (and carbon calculation training) to people involved in screen production, in all on/off set roles. It also hosts sustainability resources, websites and libraries. It is based in Toronto in Canada, but being online, can be accessed by APDG members from wherever they might be. It [...]

Sweet As at the Berlinale

March 20, 2023 Rebecca Whittington Comments Off

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 [...]

APDGreen Conversations – Autumn 2023

March 20, 2023 Rebecca Whittington Comments Off

In this Quarter’s update, multi-disciplinary designer Tobhiyah Stone Feller chats about her recent production at ATYP The Resistance and Imogen Ross adds loads of links and information about upcoming sustainability, carbon calculation and climate change seminars for both stage and screen peeps. Things are really taking off around the globe in the Eco-Design and sustainability [...]

Aislinn King – Live Performance Designer

March 20, 2023 Rebecca Whittington Comments Off

Aislinn King Design Approach Within my design practice I am drawn to creating immersive experiences inspired by movement, gesture, light and material exploration. My recent projects explore embedding conceptual, haptic and embodied modes of design in to the development, collaboration and realisation of a performance piece. My experience of performance contexts in other [...]

The Resistance: Eco-Ethical Approaches

March 20, 2023 Rebecca Whittington Comments Off

APDGreen Conversations: The Resistance - Eco-Conscious design choices with Tobhiyah Stone Feller Eco-design, as a new way of creating, takes part in altruistic and collective reasoning. Practising it becomes a way of taking care of our surroundings, our ecosystem, and ourselves. Social and environmental issues are an integral part of the eco-design process. The eco-responsible [...]

Daniel Willis – Art Director

March 19, 2023 Daniel Willis Comments Off

Creative Process: Bali 2002 Reader discretion is advised. BALI 2002 is the true story of how everyday heroes from Bali, Australia and beyond defied the odds after the 2002 terrorist attacks, to bring order from chaos and hope from despair. The show had a 10 week pre production and 6 week shoot. In that time, [...]

Melbourne welcomes world’s largest LED volume screen

March 17, 2023 Rebecca Whittington Comments Off

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 [...]

IMDbPro – Webinar

March 16, 2023 Daniel Willis Comments Off

[memberonly] IMDB's Jed Shireman-Jones presented a webinar on how to best promote members and their work on IMDbPro. During this webinar, Jed demystified IMDb by explaining the differences between IMDb.com and IMDbPro as well as how data is collected. Members learnt about IMDbPro’s many features to help manage profiles, update filmography, and how to navigate the [...]

The Gathering Debrief – Webinar

March 16, 2023 Daniel Willis Comments Off

[memberonly] In October 2022, three hundred passionate Production Designers from around the globe travelled to the small island of Spetses, Greece to share knowledge, skills, stories, and work on challenges. The Production Designers Gathering was a 5-day event featuring panels, workshops, and social gatherings. Topics included Fostering Creativity, What Makes a Great Art Department, Wellbeing [...]