Set Designers

Design sets for theatrical, motion picture, and television productions.

Job Task

• Integrates requirements including script, research, budget, and available locations to develop design.
• Presents drawings for approval and makes changes and corrections as directed.
• Selects furniture, draperies, pictures, lamps, and rugs for decorative quality and appearance.
• Confers with heads of production and direction to establish budget, schedules, and discuss design ideas.
• Directs and coordinates set construction, erection, or decoration activities to ensure conformance to design, budget, and schedule requirements.
• Assigns staff to complete design ideas and prepare sketches, illustrations, and detailed drawings of sets, or graphics and animation.
• Examines dressed set to ensure props and scenery do not interfere with movements of cast or view of camera.
• Reads script to determine location, set, or decoration requirements.
• Estimates costs of design materials and construction, or rental of location or props.
• Researches and consults experts to determine architectural and furnishing styles to depict given periods or locations.
• Designs and builds scale models of set design or miniature sets used in filming backgrounds or special effects.
• Prepares rough draft and scale working drawings of sets, including floor plans, scenery, and properties to be constructed.

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