Film & Television vocabulary · Film Crew and Roles
Production designer
Meaning in film & television, with examples
/prəˈdʌkʃn dɪˌzaɪnə/nounCommon term
In film & television, production designer means: The head of the art department, who designs the overall visual world of a film: sets, locations, props, colors and the period look.
In Turkish: sanat yönetmeni, yapım tasarımcısı
How it is used
The production designer works closely with the director and cinematographer from early pre-production. In Hollywood, the art director, set decorator and props master work under the production designer. Awards often use the category Best Production Design.
Example sentences
The production designer rebuilt a 1950s Beyoğlu street on the backlot.
Our production designer chose a palette of greens and browns for the whole village.
Common collocations
production designer and art director
art department
best production design
set decorator
Related terms
setThe place where filming happens, either a space built in a studio to look like a real place or the area being used at a location.
directorThe person who leads the creative side of a film or TV episode, guiding the actors and the crew and deciding how each scene should look and feel.
cinematographerThe head of the camera and lighting departments, who decides with the director how the film will look: framing, lenses, camera movement and light.
pre-productionThe planning stage before filming starts, when the script is finished, the cast is chosen, locations are found and the budget and schedule are prepared.
