Australian Production Design Guild Awards

With a totally open brief to open the Australian Production Design Guild Awards, Substance dove into an exploration of various production design disciplines, and what it means fundamentally to be a production designer.
We emphasise that all production design - everything in front of the lens, digital or physical - begins from nothing. A fresh script, an empty set, a new notebook.
To fill that emptiness requires an incredible number of decisions: research, sketching, mood boards and making, all building towards a subtle and acute communication with an audience.
THE APDG awards Opener is a journey through this process, from blank slate to final build, and the methods by which production designers spin straw into gold.