Jellotor, what do you do in TV land? I'm curious, being a fellow traveler. I'm an assistant art director, handling graphics & photography.
Don't know Hamilton very well at all; just the port area, the mountain and Ancaster (an old chum from art skule days hails from there). Will have to look ip Gage Park.
I'm a news editor/camera in my day job but as a freelancer I shoot, edit, direct, produce, write...you know the gig...whatever I need to do! Art director always sounded like a cool gig. I watched the second season of Justified on DVD and one of the featurettes had the art director talking about dressing the sets and so forth, I was actually taking notes! I've got a short film on the go right now and the more I know, the better off I'll be when it comes to delegation of tasks!
Art direction itself is much like middle management, it would seem to me. But depending on the gig (and your relationship with the production designer), there can indeed be a lot of artistic executive decisions you can make. But more often than not, art directors wrangle everything together - appease the production designer while keeping the project on the rails and on budget, supervise the team of set designers and graphic designers, etc. It's a busy job, one where one often has many responsibilities but a limited amount of latitude.
Me, I'm more in the trenches - hence the "assistant" prefix. I'm often given a lot of latitude in my choices but it's also routine to be told "no, that's not what I pictured" and to do it over in another style/look. Comes with the territory - I'm there to please the art director and the production designer - and the director, of course. And sometimes one or more producers! It's just the nature of the business. Right now I'm working on a period show so it's been a bit of a learning curve but it's also been way fun. A nice change from working on a contemporary series. The whole sensibility of both typography and photography was so radically different from modern standards.
Not photographed by me, But it is a photograph of me
Just recently taken by a friend (Stephen James) at the "Taste of the Danforth"
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Great capture by your friend, Lawrence. I've not gone to the Taste of the Danforth in years because of the crowds... just not as into them as I used to be.
I agree, Lawrence, great portrait of you! I'm trying to figure out whether you're casting your eye off into the distance at some sort of culinary treat or getting ready to defend yourself...
I agree, Lawrence, great portrait of you! I'm trying to figure out whether you're casting your eye off into the distance at some sort of culinary treat or getting ready to defend yourself...
I knew I was being photographed, So I looked past the camera,
In the past I've found that looking at the camera usually produced a posed result.
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