Designing and Making Graphic Props for Filmmaking

Overview

“To introduce this unit, I'll teach you how film graphic designers are always inspired by the world around them. How can you take inspiration from real references and then adapt them so that they work as movie props? Find out in this lesson! ”

In this video lesson Annie Atkins addresses the topic: Looking at the World around You, which is part of the Domestika online course: Designing and Making Graphic Props for Filmmaking. Dive into the world of graphic props for film with this course on making a vintage "rap sheet." Learn how to create authentic period-correct documents using analog techniques..

Partial transcription of the video

“In this lesson, we're going to look at how film graphic designers are always inspired by the world around us. So we take our inspiration from real artifacts and then we adapt them to make them work as movie props. In our final project, we're going to be making a vintage rap sheet, which is a police criminal arrest record containing the mugshot and fingerprint samples of a criminal. It's kind of typical of any movie prop that you might have to make if you're working on any kind of film set with the CIA or the FBI. We're going to make ours so that it feels completely authentic or realistic, b...”

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Course summary for: Designing and Making Graphic Props for Filmmaking

• Level: Beginner
• 98% positive reviews (57)
• 4898 students
• 4 units
• 18 lessons (2h 43m)
• 5 downloads

• Category

  Craft, Design

• Software

  Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Arts & Crafts, Graphic Design