Monday, August 31, 2009

The Production Design and The Wardrobe.

The 2009 Strasbourg International FIlm Festival has nominated “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Undead” for Best Production Design and Best Wardrobe.

We’re all very proud, over here at Undeadflick.com (and the "Rosencrantz World" in general) because when we set out to make a film about Shakespeare, Vampires and the Holy Grail, we wished we had a bazillion dollars to make it look like Coppola’s “Dracula,” Herzog’s more natural “Nosferatu” and Woody Allen’s “Bullets Over Broadway” – meets “Shakespeare in Love” and a sprinkling of Baz Luhrmann’s ‘Romeo and Juliet.”

But we soon realized 97.4 percent of the budget was going towards other things. Like the camera and lights, for instance, and a little thing called “food.”

But when I saw Production Designer Darsi Monaco, turn cardboard, paint and styrofoam into gold and with the help of her awesome, hard working art department, bring the sets to life in a mix of vibrant antiquity and eerie, vampiric majesty – I was one thankful, joyous director.

And words cannot describe the magic worked by Costume Designer Cameron Folan , who, with help of Denise Maroney and Lisa Henessy, provided such a gorgeous wardrobe that to the untrained eye it would appear that they probably stole it from the Costume Exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. I still wonder…

Darsi Monaco
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