Hi-So Diary 13: Sur-lao Surround
Pom
Our art team is called the Sur-lao art team. It consists of 3 people: Pom, Oom, and Pond. And all three of them are very Sur-lao. This means they are very blur and very sur (as in surreal) and very lao (as in pitched too far towards the sentimental end of the emotional spectrum). Does that make sense? Probably not. Whatever.
Anyway, despite being overly Sur-lao, they still warrant their own journal entry today because they also happen to be the best art team any production could ask for. What does an art team do? Basically everything that involves objects and things that can be seen in the frame, excluding the actors and what they’re wearing.
For instance, here’s a list of stuff they did today:
1. Poured water onto a perfectly dry parking lot to match a rainy parking lot we had shot a few days earlier.
2. Ate half of several red bean buns because the actress had to be holding a half-eaten bun at the start of the shot.
3. Went shopping for a deer’s head, found one, then got kicked off the BTS skytrain for carrying it on to the train.
4. Bought an electric piano for the set, then spent all night playing it themselves (this is very very Sur-lao).
5. Chose both dark and translucent curtain fabric to help the cinematographer control ambient light in the room.
Pond
People often watch a movie and assume the director thought of everything. In truth, the director just begins the story. But everybody else finishes it. So even though the above list sounds a bit ridiculous, it isn’t. For what the art team is actually doing is defining the character’s personality by choosing the objects the character would have: car, red bean bun, dark and light curtains, beds, deer heads, cans of beer, brands of cigarettes, electric pianos, laptop computers, posters on the wall, magazines on the floor, shampoos in the bathroom, and on and on and on…the list is endless. Somebody’s got to think of all this. That’s the art team.
Oom
High Society News
Leave a Reply