Rosco SoftDrop Creates ‘Almodovarian Beauty’ For The Room Next Door
How A Rosco SoftDrop® Created The Hollywood Setting For The Substance
Five Backdrop Techniques From The Filmmakers Behind Station Eleven
HBO’s hit show Station Eleven is based on the novel by Emily St. John Mandel and is set in the Chicago area after a fictional pandemic. This proved to be somewhat ironic because filming, which began in Chicago in January 2020, had to halt due to the real-life COVID-19 pandemic. Many scenes of the award-winning drama were scripted to […]
Providing The Background Reality For Anthony’s Flat In The Father
In the Academy Award®-winning feature film The Father, the audience is confronted with the trauma of memory loss and Alzheimer’s as they follow the life of Anthony, played by Anthony Hopkins. The Father was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Production Design because the setting – Anthony’s flat in particular – played such an integral role in the narrative […]
Creating A Lush Garden Background For Man Vs Bee With Rosco SoftDrop®
Man Vs Bee is a comedy series on Netflix directed by David Kerr about a man (Rowan Atkinson) and his losing battle with a bee while house-sitting a luxurious house. Most of the story takes place inside an extravagant, two-story mansion with huge glass doors & windows that reveal a lavish garden outside. To shoot the interior scenes, […]
Re-Creating The 1980s Manhattan Skyline For Halston On Netflix
Halston is a limited series on Netflix that follows the legendary fashion designer (played by Ewan McGregor) as he leverages his name into a worldwide fashion empire. The setting of the series – New York City in the 1970s and 80s – required the production design team to imagine and construct sets that matched the time […]
Two Set Design Techniques From HBO’s The Gilded Age
The Gilded Age on HBO Max is a period drama that pits two nineteenth-century families against each other. The van Rhijn family represents “old money,” while the Russells, who just moved into a palatial estate across the street, represent “new money” gained from the Industrial Revolution. Below, Art Director Laura Ballinger Gardner shares two Gilded Age set design techniques that the […]
How A Rosco SoftDrop® Created A 360º London Background For “The Union”
Netflix’s action spy comedy, The Union, follows the story of Mike (Mark Wahlberg) whose peaceful life is disrupted when he encounters his high school sweetheart, Roxanne (Halle Berry), who now works for a top-secret government agency called “The Union.” The operational headquarters of the agency in the story is set inside London’s iconic BT Tower, which […]
Choosing the Perfect Background: A Guide to SoftDrop®, Chroma Key & the RDX LAB™ System
Rosco has been providing film, television, and broadcast sets with a multitude of background options for more than four decades. From traditional, large-scale printed backdrops, to blue and green screen materials, to digital backdrops for LED walls – Rosco has the background solution your production needs. Below, we examine all of the available solutions to […]
