KK Barrett - Production Designer

Team Deakins

James Ellis Deakins

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4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2020

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

EPISODE 42 - KK BARRETT - Production Designer

Team Deakins sits down with production designer KK Barnett (HER, BEING JOHN MALKOVICH, MARIE ANTOINETTE). It’s a great opportunity to delve into the job of the production designer and all it entails. We go into depth about how he works with the DP and the Director. He illustrates his process by talking specifically about scenes in Being John Malkovich, Where the Wild Things Are, and Adaptation. We talk about the difference in designing from an original script or a script based on a book. He shares his process of breaking down a script and offers advice to those starting out. We even talk about the proverbial “Telephone Box” set. An episode with a lot of information about production design!

RECOMMENDED EPISODE VIEWING: Being John Malkovich, Marie Antoinette

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to the Team Deacons podcast. This podcast is a dialogue between Roger and
0:12.2	James Deacons often joined in the conversation by a
0:15.4	guest. It's very informal and we never know where it will go. We're connecting through
0:21.8	Zoom so bear that in mind when you hear the audio.
0:25.0	If you'd like to submit a question or topic, please do so by emailing pod,
0:31.0	POD at Roger Deacons.com.
0:37.3	This episode of the Team Deacons Podcast
0:40.1	supported by Company 3, the world's leading post-production group dedicated to collaborating
0:45.8	with both emerging and established filmmakers.
0:50.9	Today we're looking at a role that interacts a lot with the DP and that is the position of production designer.
0:56.0	Our guest has worked as production designer on many films, a few being lost in translation,
1:02.0	where the wild things are, extremely loud and incredibly close,
1:06.2	her, the goldfinch, and birds of prey.
1:09.2	We're happy to be joined today by KKK Barrett. Thank you KK for joining us.
1:14.0	Glad to be here.
1:16.0	I think our first question, our normal first question, is to ask you how you got to where you are now, is this something you knew you wanted to do from age five on?
1:28.4	I didn't even know this role existed. I even did a film before I knew what it was.
1:34.0	Oh glad you know it now.
1:37.0	Yeah, about halfway through that project.
1:40.0	They call this the production designer.
1:43.5	Oh, oh, and I started looking it up.
1:46.6	No, I didn't plan on this at all.
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