a microscopic bit of SPN meta
Sep. 6th, 2006 01:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
somedaybitchso there was this discussion about SPN last week. i think it was last week, although for the amount of overtime i've worked it could have been last month. oy.
anyway, my project today has been working on the production design package for wardrobe, who just came on board the other day. since this is the first time that i've been responsible for *all* the art department decisions and choices, and she came on so late, i wanted to put together a package that essentially summarized the conversations between myself, the director and the cinematographer as to backstory, style, thematic and color choices.
along the way, doing research for this, i collected some quotes from this book on production design; quotes that resonated with what we're trying to do as a team with this short film. and today, while transferring my personal notes to something for the wardrobe supervisor, this particular bit just screamed The Men of SPN to me.
Patty Bellantoni was talking about Clint Eastwood's Oscar-winning film Unforgiven, but she could have just as easily said that about Supernatural, and not in terms of color use, something i haven't looked at, but in terms of the driving forces of the Winchester men. they're lost. each of them in their own ways, and to varying degrees, but lost nonetheless. SPN isn't missing women; they were stolen, and their absence is a perpetually echoing scream.
anyway, my project today has been working on the production design package for wardrobe, who just came on board the other day. since this is the first time that i've been responsible for *all* the art department decisions and choices, and she came on so late, i wanted to put together a package that essentially summarized the conversations between myself, the director and the cinematographer as to backstory, style, thematic and color choices.
along the way, doing research for this, i collected some quotes from this book on production design; quotes that resonated with what we're trying to do as a team with this short film. and today, while transferring my personal notes to something for the wardrobe supervisor, this particular bit just screamed The Men of SPN to me.
"This is a brilliant example of character-driven color concept in service of the story. It's anti-hero hero may be male, but it's driving forces are the women who fade into the backround and keep their wisdom a secret."
Patty Bellantoni was talking about Clint Eastwood's Oscar-winning film Unforgiven, but she could have just as easily said that about Supernatural, and not in terms of color use, something i haven't looked at, but in terms of the driving forces of the Winchester men. they're lost. each of them in their own ways, and to varying degrees, but lost nonetheless. SPN isn't missing women; they were stolen, and their absence is a perpetually echoing scream.
