STEFAN DECHANT - Production Designer

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James Ellis Deakins

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4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2024

⏱️ 79 minutes

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SEASON 2 - EPISODE 87 - STEFAN DECHANT - PRODUCTION DESIGNER

Production designer Stefan Dechant (REBEL MOON, THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH, WELCOME TO MARWEN) joins us on this episode of the Team Deakins Podcast. We worked with Stefan on TRUE GRIT and JARHEAD, and it was great catching up with him. Like many other young boys of the 70s, Stefan became enchanted with STAR WARS, and (while attending school in Cincinnati, Ohio) lied his way to a gig working on JURASSIC PARK. His first love was storyboards, but he soon found his design and illustration skills best suited a career in art direction and production design. Stefan shares how his time drafting storyboards informs his approach to production design, and we also discuss the integration of emerging technologies in filmmaking today and tomorrow. We also hear about Stefan’s experience working with director Joel Coen and cinematographer Bruno Delbonnel on THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH and learn how they carved the film’s expressionistic and abstract sets out of light.

Recommended Viewing: THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to season two of the Team Deacons podcast, a collection of
0:08.8	informal conversations between Roger and James Deacons and a guest.
0:13.0	We never know where the conversation will take us,
0:16.0	so listen in and see where it goes.
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1:15.0	Today we're speaking with a production designer.
1:20.0	His credits include Rebel Moon Part 1, The Tragedy of Macbeth, and Welcome to Marwin.
1:27.0	We're pleased to have Stephen DeCant with us today.
1:31.0	Stephen, thank you for doing this.
1:33.0	Hi, welcome.
1:34.0	Thank you.
1:35.0	I really appreciate being here.
1:37.0	We'd like to start with our normal question, which is, how did you get to where you are today? Did you have any indications as a kid you were going to go down this path or did you try something else and find this later? What's your story?
1:49.7	Well, I think I was at 8 in 1977, and that's when Star Wars came out.
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