SHORT FILM

MANONGS

STILLS

CREDIT

Art Director

FOCUS

Set Dressing, Set Decorating, Prop Fabrication, Graphics, Credits, Poster

Timeframe

3 weeks pre-production, 2 weekend shoot

BACKGROUND — Filipino farm workers in California 1960's

REsearch

The main objectives for the fabrication of the pit: a seamless concrete exterior and waterproof interior for the black goo.
*Note: sketches by Christian Restad (Production Designer)

PROCESS

PROP FABRICATION — beer cans, pennies, weathering & aging, etc.

REsearch

*With the exception of the tree shafts, everything was created from scratch.

PROCESS

Assembly of set — from beginning to final set dressing (left to right).
PRACTICAL EFFECTS — gurgling pit mechanism, throwing up hemp rope, condensation on can, twitching frog, actions in goo tank, etc.
SET DRESSING / SET DECORATING (images of bathroom, living room, bedroom, kitchen, cereal bowl, )

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