Film synopsis. So we jumped in and just ran with it.We’re now in a big development phase, and we’ve never really been a preservation city. Art Departmental is the leading television and film art department resource around the globe celebrating the art and craft of production design. A Variety and iHeartRadio PodcastEven timeless locations such as the Musso & Frank Grill required tweaks for the shoot. Learn more about this motorcycle by checking it out in person. People said, “I can’t believe you invested [all this time and money in this]. So for that one shot, I said we could do it in miniature, which means 1:24 scale. Barbara Ling is an American production designer. Everything changed. So we built it practically, but as a practical miniature, to be shot and then mixed in with the real shot. There was a lot of smog [Laughs. It was just a smaller set.The hardest was Hollywood Boulevard. Think of all those vendors. You have to hire a department quickly, and locations is the first position you start with. We built Rick’s interior house, and then the two exteriors were done someplace else. There’s so much location work in this. [Laughs. BATBLADE Designed for Batgirl by production designer Barbara Ling, this motorcycle takes cues from a drag-racing bike. And I thought, “Okay, if I drive in here and I put this billboard up, and gate numbers and sound stage numbers, this could be Warner Brothers. We had a late start, and Quentin very much hoped to make Cannes with this film, so we had to be definitive and to get things finished.
So that’s one of the big things that we wanted to show, is that the freeways really were freeways then. The buildings themselves are beautiful, and it would be a shame if everything becomes glass towers.So we went to them and I said, “could I rebuild the Western town back to a wooden Western town, with the big saloon and everything?” And they said yes. Set … View Barbara Ling’s profile on LinkedIn, the world's largest professional community. We’ve been looking. It was a massive undertaking that took years to complete: As Ling told us over the phone, months of planning went into sequences as simple as Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio driving down Hollywood Boulevard. Everything that was done was practical.
Production Design: Barbara Ling; Set Decoration: Nancy Haigh Film synopsis In Los Angeles in 1969, aging TV star Rick Dalton and his longtime stunt double Cliff Booth struggle to make their way around an industry and a city they hardly recognize anymore. And, in a way, you can see it in her latest project, Once Upon A Time…In Hollywood. We found one in Texas and then a storm destroyed it.” So then we said to them, “If we wanted to rebuild this, could you help us with the specs?” And they said “Yes, we’ve got all the original drawings, but the only thing we ask is that we can have it for our museum.” So we rebuilt all the signage back with the little man on the side, and [after we were done] we gave it to them.
But we still have the memories of these places. Ha!