Production Designer: The Train Hunter

Alex Orrelle and I have worked on several projects together, and this is his short film directorial debut, with me as his production designer. We have completed a handful of funding stages and are now in the process of producing a full PoC trailer.

For the last year and a half, Alex and have I worked our way toward developing a cohesive language for the film. As these things begin slowly, you will find the artwork from sixteen months ago looks very different than the artwork which has ended up being the visual foundations for our film.

This project is about absurdity, humor, and finding the profound among the ridiculous: a young boy is cast out from his desert tribe and befriends the dangerous wild diesel train in order to survive, and ends up connecting the two worlds to benefit all.

At the beginning of every project is one word: language. As production designer, the questions I ask myself are:

What are the core relationships in the story and how do I describe them visually?

How does the world support the narrative, and in what ways can I design the main environments that might hint at the emotional undercurrents?

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