For Luca Guadagnino’s After the Hunt, many of the integral scenes of the film take place in Alma’s expansive apartment. Production designer Stefano Baisi’s job was to design the apartment in a way that matched the aesthetic of the educated elite, while also bringing a sense of history to pair with…

When director Chloé Zhao was planning out the scenes in the Globe Theatre for Hamnet, production designer Fiona Crombie says there were more than a couple of reasons they couldn’t film in the actual location. Not only is the Globe still an active theater, but it now looks different from how it would…

As the co-editors of Hamnet, Affonso Gonçalves and director Chloé Zhao say they found the ending of the film to be the most difficult to put together. Not necessarily just because they wanted an emotionally powerful ending, but also because Zhao decided to film much more of Hamlet than is shown on…

As the returning production designer from the first film, Nathan Crowley had a lot of new areas to explore in Wicked: For Good. From the seemingly floating castle Kiamo Ko to Elphaba’s forest hideaway, and even new locations within The Emerald City like Glinda’s apartment, Crowley’s work in the…

For Wake Up Dead Man, the third film in Rian Johnson's Knives Out series, the tone and palette shift created a major change in how the cinematography was done. "The movie has a different tone and palette," says Johnson. "It's a little more gothic and moodier in its tone, so that defined a…

For a director like Guillermo del Toro, you can only imagine what he'll do when he gets to create his fantasy project. With Frankenstein, Del Toro and his crew of craft collaborators were finally able to achieve his years-long dream of bringing Mary Shelley's book — in which scientist Victor…

When working with a director like Paul Thomas Anderson, it’s important to be ready to pivot to whatever will work best for the scene. As a frequent collaborator of Anderson’s, and the previous editor of Licorice Pizza, editor Andy Jurgensen knows how to best be “fluid” in his work to match his…

A House of Dynamite is the kind of movie that sticks in your mind for a while after viewing. The tension created when an average drill becomes a real, life-or-death situation is exemplified in the performances, but the feeling would not be the same without the support of the craft teams. The…

The setting for Hacks seems to change drastically from season to season, from Las Vegas to a tour bus to a late night talk show. For production designer Rob Tokarz, these shifts became a great opportunity to pay tribute to Deborah's journey throughout the series with the latest set. Season 4 of H…

Having worked in the costume department for WandaVision, it's no surprise that costume designer Daniel Selon was excited to jump back into the world of Agatha Harkness for Agatha All Along. When he first pitched his ideas, Selon chose to focus on the queer perspective of Teen (Joe Locke), as someone…

If you ask people what stands out about The Studio, you're going to get a lot of different answers. The thing that truly makes the series shine however, is the 'oner' approach to filming. A oner is a continuous, uninterrupted shot with a long duration, which is not a new method of filming, but it is…

For a series like Apple TV+'s Dark Matter, creating a main title is a daunting challenge. Main title designer Ronnie Koff needed to capture the mind-bending nature of the series while also creating a sequence that alludes to the scope of the story. Dark Matter follows Jason (Joel Edgerton), a…