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Introduce yourself\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n I am a designer a<\/em>nd art director and have worked in theatre, film,\u00a0television and fine art. I teach courses in production design and art\u00a0direction at Brighton Film School and Wimbledon College of Art\u00a0alongside my\u00a0own practice. Currently I make gallery-based work in the form of full\u00a0size, built and dressed film sets, these are immersive for the gallery\u00a0audience who can enter and walk around the rooms. The sets are lit\u00a0and accompanied by sound.<\/em><\/p>\n Who or what has inspired you t<\/strong>o be involved in making film\/moving\u00a0image?<\/strong><\/p>\n I was working for the Royal Court Theatre as a Theatre Designer in\u00a0London in the 1990s and was fed up with tiny budgets and late nights. I\u00a0was moaning abut this to a colleague, an Australian designer called\u00a0Helen Bauman, and she suggested I contact the BBC because she\u00a0thought I would enjoy the working process of design for film. I\u00a0contacted the BBC Art Department and was lucky to be offered a\u00a0traineeship, I absolutely loved it, the team work, the professionalism,\u00a0the speed of work and proper budgets to work with. I was hooked form\u00a0that moment.<\/em><\/p>\n How has Brighton and Hove influenced your work?<\/strong><\/p>\n Moving to Brighton has had a huge impact on my work. Four years ago\u00a0I started working locally with CINECITY who run Brighton Film Festival,\u00a0on set design projects based on Brighton films, novels and novelists. I\u00a0have become interested in and am motivated by Brighton Film History,\u00a0local writers, and artists, there is a great sense of history in this city. I\u00a0also started teaching set design locally and feel very strongly that\u00a0Brighton, which used to be at the centre of the UK film industry 100\u00a0years ago has the potential to be a centre again and hope I can help a\u00a0little to encourage that.<\/em><\/p>\n What advice would you give to creative people seeking work or wanting\u00a0to develop their careers in the industry?<\/strong><\/p>\n Get some training and contact production companies for work\u00a0experience. It\u2019s a very competitive industry so the more training and\u00a0work experience you have the better your chances of paid work. Be\u00a0prepared to work hard and work long hours. You need commitment,\u00a0persistence and determination.<\/em><\/p>\n What\u2019s the most interesting part of your job?<\/strong><\/p>\n Everything! The diversity of the work you undertake in the art\u00a0department is exciting and challenging and never dull. You find yourself\u00a0doing such a wide range of jobs from research, script analysis,\u00a0drawing, model making, construction, budgets, set dressing and\u00a0buying, prop making, graphics, on camera work, screenings\u2026you meet\u00a0a wide range of people, travel and get access to places that you would\u00a0not normally see. It\u2019s a privilege to work in the industry.<\/em><\/p>\n What\u2019s the most challenging aspect of your job?<\/strong><\/p>\n Being able to manage the wide range of tasks\u2026.see above!<\/em><\/p>\n Dead or alive, who are the top three people you\u2019d most like to\u00a0collaborate with, and why?<\/strong><\/p>\n Georges M\u00e9li\u00e8s, Alfred Hitchcock (who worked as an art director in his\u00a0early career) and Orson Welles to learn skills, tricks and methods from\u00a0the early days of film, skills that may be lost one day, model shots,\u00a0clever use of mirrors, matt shots and to watch these masters at work .<\/em><\/p>\n If you could only take one film away with you on a desert island, what\u00a0would it be and why?<\/strong><\/p>\n Right now it would be Alan Partridge\u2019s (Steve Coogan) \u2018Alpha Pappa\u2019,\u00a0which I\u2019ve watched endlessly with my son and partner and which we all\u00a0love. It would remind me of them and make me laugh.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Introduce yourself\u2026 I am a designer and art director and have worked in theatre, film,\u00a0television and fine art. I teach courses in production design and art\u00a0direction at Brighton Film School and Wimbledon College of Art\u00a0alongside my\u00a0own practice. 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