What Does A Production Designer Do?

"I think of myself as the hand of the director. My real job is to understand how the director reads the script, and what he/she sees and wants to visually accomplish." Top industry production designers including David Gropman (Life of Pi), Barbara Munch-Cameron (Behind the Candelabra), John Stevenson (Burton and Taylor) discuss their craft and profession for BAFTA Guru. Enjoyed the video? Subscribe to our channel for new videos every week: https://youtube.com/user/BaftaGuru Stay up to date with the latest news from BAFTA: Twitter: @BAFTAGuru: https://twitter.com/BAFTAGuru @BAFTA: https://twitter.com/BAFTA @BAFTAGames: https://twitter.com/BAFTAGames Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bafta Instagram: http://instagram.com/bafta Tumblr: Film: http://bafta-film.tumblr.com/ TV: http://bafta-television.tumblr.com/ Games: http://bafta-games.tumblr.com/ Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/bafta/ Google+ : https://plus.google.com/+BAFTA/posts Sign up to receive our emails: http://guru.bafta.org/newsletter And don't forget you can also subscribe to our podcasts: iTunes: http://bit.ly/Vz84HI Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/bafta Websites: http://www.bafta.org/guru http://www.bafta.org http://www.bafta.org/ygd