TV production design roundtable panel: ‘Based on a True Story,’ ‘The Bear,’ ‘Beef,’ ‘Black Cake’ and ‘Silo’ [Exclusive Video Interview]

It’s not a stretch to say that production designers have one of the most fun jobs in the world, creating and building worlds from scratch, bringing to life details that have just been written on the page. That’s the final product, but the most rewarding aspect for them is at beginning.

“I think the most exciting part for me is starting a show and starting to dig in and start doing research and get everybody on board and figuring out what the look is going to be,” “Based on a True Story” production designer Suzuki Ingerslev tells Gold Derby at our Meet the Experts: TV Production Design panel with Merje Veski (“The Bear”), Grace Yun (“Beef”), Arwel Jones (“Black Cake”) and Gavin Bocquet (“Silo”). “That’s when you really get to be creative and you work with your team and you work with the producers and directors. And after that, it gets a little bit tricker, but that’s my favorite part: starting up and doing research.” Watch the exclusive video interview of the roundtable above  Click each person’s name to watch an individual chat.

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Bocquet quips that the beginning is “the worst and the best” because “the first day with a blank piece of paper is sort of ‘Whoa!'” “But then you’re right, it sort of becomes something — a collaboration with the director, with the writers and then the ideas start to flow,” he says. “That’s when it gets going.”

That collaboration with other departments is what Jones appreciates the most. “One of my favorite bits about my job is being able to see behind the scenes of other people’s jobs. We’re very privileged to be allowed into some spaces that normally people don’t get to see and it’s always a joy to get a peek behind the curtain of other artists as well.”

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