Set Designer


The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation Presents

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Thomas Azzari on the job of set designing for Seinfeld
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John Shaffner on his day-to-day duties as set designer for Friends 
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Bob Markell on the role of a designer on a television show
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John Shaffner on art direction for television vs. art direction for features
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Bob Markell on working in Summer Stock as a set designer
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Thomas Azzari on designing the sets for Gunsmoke and The Wild, Wild West
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Thomas Azzari

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Thomas Azzari on designing the sets for Gunsmoke and The Wild, Wild West
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Thomas Azzari on designing the set for the Seinfeld  episode "The Parking Garage"
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Thomas Azzari on designing Seinfeld's New York street and various other sets
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Thomas Azzari on the job of set designing for Seinfeld
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Thomas Azzari on his advice to aspiring production designers 
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Albert Heschong

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Albert Heschong on the process of the set designer
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Joseph Jennings

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Joseph Jennings on working on various features as lead set designer and the duties of a lead set designer
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Joseph Jennings on the duties of a set designer and on the duties of a set decorator
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Bob Markell

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Bob Markell on working in Summer Stock as a set designer
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Bob Markell on the role of a designer on a television show
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Bob Markell on design techniques for You Are There
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Bob Markell on working with color on television
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John Shaffner

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John Shaffner on the duties of an art director, set decorator, production designer and prop master
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John Shaffner on his day-to-day duties as set designer for Friends 
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Gary Smith

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Gary Smith on his duties as a set designer and on working with Harry Belafonte on "Tonight with Belafonte" on The Revlon Revue
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"As a set designer you do working drawings…so the people in the construction department can build the set. You’re in training to become an architect. You’re learning how to draw. Learning how to build things." - Thomas Azzari, Production Designer

Set Designers draft technical drawings to build or modify sets, locations, vehicles, and signs.

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