JAMES CHINLUND - Production Designer

Team Deakins

James Ellis Deakins

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4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2023

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Production designer James Chinlund (THE BATMAN, THE AVENGERS, REQUIEM FOR A DREAM) joins us on this episode of the Team Deakins Podcast. Reflecting on his childhood, James recalls to us noting the relationship between crowds of worshipers and the inner sanctum of the Cathedral of St. John in New York while squirreled up above in its attic. While discussing James’ earlier work, we consider the balance a set or location needs between stripping it to its bare essence for the scene while avoiding an overly minimal design more appropriate for the theater. As avid fans of THE BATMAN, we ask James how he worked with director Matt Reeves and cinematographer Greig Fraser over three years and through a global pandemic to bring Gotham to the screen in all its gloomy glory. James also reveals how he learned to overcome his mistrust of VFX while working on THE AVENGERS, and we ponder the future of production design amidst the current and looming advances in technology.

This episode is sponsored by Fiilex

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to season two of the Team Deacons podcast, a collection of
0:08.8	informal conversations between Roger and James Deacons and a guest.
0:13.0	We never know where the conversation will take us,
0:16.0	so listen in and see where it goes.
0:19.0	This episode is sponsored by Philex, a California-based lighting company with close to 40 years of in-house lighting and expertise.
0:30.0	Philex is known for their LED color franels ranging from the smallest
0:35.4	philex Q3 to the largest philex Q10 and they set the gold standard in the
0:41.5	motion picture industry with precise color science, brightness, and beam shaping.
0:48.0	Philex recently launched a new LED color ellipsoidal called the phylex g3 which can make razor sharp cuts.
1:00.0	Today we're speaking with a production designer. His credits include Requiem for a Dream,
1:05.4	The Lion King, and the Batman.
1:07.6	We're pleased to welcome James Chinland.
1:10.4	James, thanks for doing this.
1:11.8	Yeah, welcome. Hi.
1:13.0	Such an honor and pleasure to be here with you guys. Thank you so much.
1:17.0	I'm a huge fan of your podcast and obviously your work as well, so it's just an absolute treat to be with you.
1:25.7	Thank you. Thank you. We're gonna start with our normal question which is how
1:31.5	did you get to where you are today?
1:33.0	Was this something that you always thought
1:35.1	you wanted to do as a kid?
1:37.2	Were you re-decorating everything?
1:39.0	Or did you go down another path and then find this?
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