credit: Art Department Trainee/Set Decorator
Collaborating closely with the Production Designer I worked as a scenic artist, and across set decoration, dressing props and standby.
As Scenic Artist the role involved my researching the landscape and culture of Aboriginal tribes. Designing and painting a backdrop, to be accompanied by drapes and shrubbery, allowing for an authentic Aboriginal diorama, including that of actor Djakapurra Munyarryun posing as a human taxidermy.
Sourcing, buying and borrowing set decoration, including that of shrubbery from privately owned local garden centres, and a number of bell jars lent out to us by the John Lewis Partnership.
The Mining Institute was transformed from its present day appearance, into a 1886 period styled Colonial Exhibition.
Production Designer: Lesley-Anne Rose
Writer/Director: Saeed Taji Farouky
Producer: Maria Caruana Galizia
Writer/Director: Saeed Taji Farouky
Producer: Maria Caruana Galizia
Storyline
They Live in Forests, They Are Extremely Shy tells the fictionalised story of an Indigenous Australian man invited to London for the Colonial Exhibition of 1886. He's a reluctant ambassador, negotiating for the safety of his people and ancestral land as the British Empire continues to colonise and brutalise indigenous Australians.
Company Credits
Produced by and Copyright of Candle & Bell Productions for Channel 4 Random Acts, Photographer Andy Berriman
