Richard Hoover - Production Designer

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James Ellis Deakins

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🗓️ 18 August 2021

⏱️ 73 minutes

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EPISODE 142 - RICHARD HOOVER - Production Designer

Teams Deakins has a conversation with production designer, Richard Hoover (42, GIRL, INTERRUPTED, BOB ROBERTS). Richard talks about different methods of working with different directors and how he discovers what the director wants. He also illustrates his points with examples from Twin Peaks, Bob Roberts, Dead Man Walking. 42 and The Assassination of Jesse James and the approaches he took. He shares the use of a “look book” for the design and the particular challenges of working on period pieces. He tells us that the content of the scene definitely affects the design and how you can tell the story with the design. We asked about designing against your personal taste as well as what his greatest design challenge was. It’s a great look into the complex role of the production designer on a film. Don’t miss it!

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to the Team Deakin's podcast. This podcast is a dialogue between Roger and
0:09.8	James Deakin's often joined in the conversation by a guest. It's very informal and we never
0:16.3	know where it will go. We're connecting through Zoom so bear that in mind when you hear
0:21.4	the audio. If you'd like to submit a question or topic, please do so by e-mailing pod
0:28.7	p-o-d at RogerDeakin's.com. This episode is sponsored by Ari. More than just the manufacturer
0:39.6	of the film industry's top camera and lighting equipment, they are also the innovator behind
0:45.1	cinematic lenses, such as the master prime and signature prime lenses. Ari, truly cinematic.
0:54.8	We're talking with a production designer today. His credit list includes Twin Peaks, Bob
1:00.2	Roberts, Girl Interrupted, North Country, and 42. We're pleased to welcome Richard Hoover with us
1:06.9	today. Thank you, Richard, for doing this. Welcome, Richard. This is great. Thank you and I can
1:12.7	actually see you, but I know when people listen to this, they can't. It's fun to visit with you again.
1:21.0	We'd like to start with the question, how did you get to where you are today? What was your
1:27.3	path? Was this something you always wanted to do? Where did you grow up? Just tell us your story.
1:33.1	Okay. I'll start with growing up because that's at the beginning. I grew up outside of Chicago
1:42.5	in the burbs in a little town called Wayne, Illinois, which was in the country at that point,
1:52.0	about 40 miles west of Chicago. My dad worked in Chicago and took the train and was the whole
2:00.8	thing. I'm actually looking at a film that's about all that, taking the suburban life going into
2:07.6	the city. I just was thinking, I wrote a little piece about it and on the notes I'm doing, which
2:14.4	about this going into a city from the country in America, anyway. It's Chicago has this
2:22.8	amazing sprawl that just comes out from the lake. I remember the deeper you're in,
2:30.7	the deeper you're in, the deeper you're in, and boy, you're really deep.
2:33.3	The fortunate thing, I had a high school teacher who helped me become an actor in high school.
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