Category: Production Consulting

There is a couple I have known for many years that work in the production industry. She is a stylist and he is an art director. They have a lovely house in the country and they often brag it is totally furnished and decorated from the props and wardrobe from commercial production shoots. This is not unusual actually, as the practice is quite common and most people in the industry know about it. However, in this case they took it to a whole new level. Basically, various advertisers have funded their whole holiday home furnishing and decorating. How does this happen?

Now the following is true and I was a party to the events as they unfolded. The moving media (television or video production) involved an actor talking direct to camera. The agency art director thought that the actor needed to wear a suit to give him an air of authority and conservative values. The agency art director also wanted the actor to wear an Armani suit as the cut and drape of the garment would also give the actor a presence of sartorial elegance and personal wealth (both good traits that would wash-off onto the product). Now the suit was black so it was very difficult to see the cut and drape at all. But this was only discovered after the set and actor were lit at the studio on the shoot day. So there is some argument that the production value of a designer suit was misguided.

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