Hard Craft

Landscape Collector: The scout behind Hollywood’s changing landscapes

by Leila Latif

Location scout extraordinaire, Lori Balton, tells us about the shifting nature of her globe-trotting craft.

Hard Craft

Eye of the Giant: Cinema's Cyclops Problem

by Jonathan Wells

Cinema has spent 120 years trying to crack the Cyclops. Christopher Nolan finally found the answer – and it was staring everyone in the face.

Hard Craft

Paint the Legend: Behind the scenes on The Christophers

by Mark Asch

Steven Soderbergh’s latest film focuses on a revered artist – the painter and production designer tasked with creating his fictional oeuvre reveal their secrets.

Hard Craft

Greetings Earthlings: The tactile joy of puppets in space

by Henry Bulmer

Project Hail Mary is the latest film to employ the art of puppetry to bring an alien to life.

Deep Cuts

Celebrating the Splendour, Anarchy and Creative Genius of Sandy Powell

by Desirae Embree

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s reimagining of James Whale’s 1935 classic The Bride of Frankenstein marks 40 years in the singular career of costume designer Sandy Powell.

A moody shot from behind the scenes on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, showing a couple in the centre of the frame with dramatic lighting.

Hard Craft

Light Touch: How Hollywood gets lit

by Gabie McFadden

Gaffer Jon Haney is responsible for literally lighting up the screen – what does that mean in the digital age?

Two men in black tops against pastel pink and blue cloudy background with scattered geometric shapes and symbols.

Deep Cuts

Playground Love: How Air scored The Virgin Suicides

by Paul Weedon

The French electronic duo were the musical backbone behind Sofia Coppola’s startling debut. A 25^th anniversary reissue saw them reconstructing much of their work from scratch.

A group of teenage girls sit on a roof in the sunshine, laughing and smiling.

Hard Craft

Who gets to be on the big screen?

by Emily Maskell

Casting director Lucy Pardee lifts the lid on her latest project, Lollipop, and working in the casting industry.

A man, wearing a dark shirt and trousers, working at a professional audio mixing console at Abbey Road Studios. The image shows a variety of audio equipment and speakers.

Hard Craft

How Film Music Comes to Life: Inside Abbey Road

by Paul Weedon

Synonymous with film scoring for over four decades, Abbey Road Studios’ legendary Studio One has just undergone a refurb. But what actually goes on behind closed doors?

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Baby Love: Behind the scenes with the company creating realistic maternity props

by Scheenagh Harrington

Producing realistic baby bumps, placentas and prop babies, Cinebaby are working to improve the representation of maternity in film and television.

Hard Craft

Role Credits: Inside the world of Dan Perri

by Ralph Jones

Dan Perri, the man behind some of the film world’s most iconic credits sequences, reflects on half a century of his work.

Interviews

Inside the wild world of film-to-book novelisations

by Melita Cameron-Wood

Alan Dean Foster, who has adapted the likes of Alien and Star Wars for the page, explains the highly specific art of transforming sci-fi epics into page-turners.