Guy Hendrix Dyas - Production Designer

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James Ellis Deakins

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🗓️ 14 February 2021

⏱️ 69 minutes

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EPISODE 89 - GUY HENDRIX DYAS - Production Designer

Team Deakins sits down with production designer, Guy Hendrix Dyas (INCEPTION, GEMINI MAN, ELIZABETH: THE GOLDEN AGE). We cover many subjects, including the importance of drawing and illustrating for Production Designers, the need for learning the director’s visual language, forming a relationship with a new director, and the sadness he feels at the end of each project. Guy shares his experiences of working with Terry Gilliam, Shekhar Kapur, and Chris Nolan. He breaks down the set in Inception that was in the snow and the challenges that it brought and talks about the Japanese influence on the design of Inception. We also get into the design of the films Agora and Elizabeth: The Golden Years. A very interesting looking into the world of the Production Designer!

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to the Team Deakin's podcast. This podcast is a dialogue between Roger and
0:11.8	James Deakin's often joined in the conversation by a guest. It's very informal and we never
0:18.4	know where it will go. We're connecting through Zoom so bear that in mind when you hear the
0:23.6	audio. If you'd like to submit a question or topic please do so by e-mailing pod
0:30.8	p-o-d at RogerDeakin's.com. This episode is sponsored by Ari. More than just the manufacturer
0:40.2	of the film industry's top camera and lighting equipment, they are also the innovator behind
0:45.6	cinematic lenses such as the master prime and signature prime lenses. Ari, truly cinematic.
0:54.4	This episode is sponsored by Otto Nemitz' camera rental, newly located in Culver City. Otto Nemitz
1:01.6	is known for its premiere service and support to productions for 41 years. Today we're talking
1:09.1	with a production designer. He's worked on such movies as Inception, Elizabeth the Golden Age,
1:14.9	Gemini Man and Passengers. We're pleased to welcome Guy Dias with us today. Guy thank you for
1:21.8	doing this. Yes, thank you. Welcome. Thanks for having me. We'd like to start with the question,
1:27.6	how did you get to where you are now? Is it something you always knew you wanted to do or did you
1:32.4	take another path? How did you get to here? Well, I think like a lot of people in the UK, I'm from
1:40.1	a part of England that's quite out there, Devon in the south of England and there wasn't really a
1:47.2	natural path for me to be in the film industry. I grew up watching sort of Ray Harry House and
1:53.4	Special Effects films and thought that was fantastic, but there was no option to ever work in the
2:00.3	film industry. So like many schoolboys, I just doodled in the back of my school book all the time
2:05.8	and sort of did well at art school but didn't really think there was a future in film other than
2:11.2	just dreaming about being someone who made monsters or these amazing sets. Which art school did you
2:19.6	go to and what part of Devon were you from? I'm from a place, I know you're from Devon to New
2:25.6	Hill from Devon, I'm from Newton Abbott, which is just from here. There's a great cider pub there,
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