Richard Campling
Production Designer

Mister Lonely - Feature Film - Production Designer

Shot on location in the Scottish Highlands and Paris
The story of a commune of celebrity look-alikes who build a theatre to put on their own performances.
Scottish sets included the ramshackle theatre which was built on location and worked as both interior and exterior set, a hot mud pit which was built on location and contained 11000 liters of bubbling, steaming mud. Interiors included: banqueting hall, communal kitchen, various bedrooms, bathrooms and living rooms. Paris interiors included a seedy theatrical agents office and a down at heel apartment.
Props included four fully articulated dead sheep which were burnt on a funeral pyre, a winged monkey on roller skates which was attached to a tiny yellow motorcycle that was ridden by a Michael Jackson look-alike around a go kart track, and a 14 egg shells painted with the faces of all the main characters.
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Harmony Korine
David Reid
Adam Bohling
Nadia Romain
 

Reverb - Feature Film - Production Designer

  Shot on location and in the studio  
  A contemporary psychological horror set in a hi-tech recording studio.  
  The sets included; a cavernous recording studio space with a high tech control room, the plush studio reception, a maze of corridors, an old tiled recording chamber and various apartments ranging from large artists loft to small cluttered musicians pad.  
  Props included 1970's style experimental musical instruments and a large amount of interactive computer displays.  
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Eitan Arrusi
Frank Mannion
 
 

Freebird - Feature Film - Production Designer

  Shot on location and in the studio  
  A contemporary comedy road movie about three dispatch riders who go on a mission to Wales and get caught up in the middle of a battle between two rival bike gangs.  
  Multiple locations including various woodland camps, a moorland battlefield, bikers workshop, cannabis plantation, appartment interiors, London streets and Welsh country roads.  
  Sets included; disabled toilet, village shop and various pub interiors.  
  Props included the three hero customised motorcycles, many medieval looking weapons, a battered van and a hippy’s caravan.  
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Jon Ivay
David Reid
Adam Bohling
 
 

Mutant Chronicles - 7 minute Trailer - Production Designer

  Shot on location and in the studio.  
  A seven minute trailer for the upcoming feature film. Set in a futuristic world where four giant global corporations have banded together to fight the mutant army that threatens to destroy mankind itself. The massive World War One style battlefield was achieved combining CGI with set, blue screen elements and traditional miniatures.  
  The main set was built on location and inluded a huge trench amidst a battlefield littered with burnt out tanks and machinery.  
  Props inluded four hero assault weapons as well as extensive prosthetic makeup FX for the mutants and gruesome death scenes.  
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Simon Hunter
Tim Dennison-uk
Ed Pressman-usa
 
 

A Short Film About John Bolton - Short Film - Production Designer

  Shot on location.  
  A spoof documentary about the artist John Bolton, painter of naked Vampire women.  
  Heavily dressed locations included an art gallery and the artists crypt - studio  
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Neal Gaiman
David Reid
Adam Bohling
 
 

Sci-Fi Channel - Sci-Fright Idents - Production Designer

  Shot in the studio.  
  A series of 1 and 2 minute episodes that ran with the channel's "Sci-Fright" movie strand.  
  The set comprised of a cramped, gloomy, claustrophibic apartment with bedroom, bathroom, kitchen and hallway.  
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Clem Pavey
Sci Fi channel
 
 

ENCAMS - Rats Commercial - Production Designer

  Shot in the studio.  
  A public information commercial for cimena and TV designed to stop people dropping edible litter.  
  The sets comprised of a couple's bedroom infested by rats as they sleep, an alleyway, drainage channels and various pipes.  
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Rob Green
Picardy films
 
 

Luminal - Feature Film - Art Director

  Shot on location and in the studio.  
  An independent feature set in the near future about two lesbian prostitutes and their descent into drugs and murder.  
  Sets included a large night club with barroom, offices, changing rooms and an S+M room, a high-tech apartment and various toilets.  
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Andrea Vechiato
Alex tate
 
 

The Bunker - Feature Film - Production Designer

  Shot on location and in the studio.  
  A pschological horror film set in World War II. A group of battle weary German soldiers retreating from the Allies take refuge in a remote anti tank bunker.  
  Sets included the bunker interior with gunroom, crewroom, gas lock and entrance defence room, a mazelike tunnel system and a 200 year old plague pit.  
  Locations included bunker exterior, battlefield and forest.  
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Rob Green
Daniel Figuero
 
 

Blair Witch Project - Website Films - Production Designer

  Shot on location and in the studio.  
  A series of 10 short films which were part of the website for the UK release of the film.  
  Sets included two doctors offices, a high security prison cell, and a white witches house.  
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Rob Green
Pathe films
 
 

Leech homes - Commercial - Production Designer

  Shot on location.  
  A series of 5 commercials for a new housing developement in Newcastle.  
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Rob Green
Picardy films
 
 

Tomb Raider IV - Commercial - Production Designer

  Shot in the studio  
  A promotional film for the launch of the computer game.  
  Sets included a section of tomb carved with hieroglyphics and desert sand blowing away to reveal hidden objects.  
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Rob Green
Eidos
 
 

The Trick - Multi Award Winning Short Film - Production Designer

  Shot on location  
  A group of Master magicians hold an audition for new members. They are confounded when a strange magician enters, produces a small green stick which folds out into a door, he then steps through the door and dissapears.  
  The set comprised of the audition hall, the magic door and the "hell room" on the other side of the door filled with broken, abandoned magic tricks, playing cards and dead white rabbits.  
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Rob Green
Sarah Carr
 
 

Valentine - TV Comedy Drama - Art Director

  Shot on location  
  A pilot episode for a series about the exploits of a "fix it" agency  
  Locations included a graveyard a demolision site and several cafes  
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Rob Green  
 

The Black Cat - Short Film - Production Designer

  Shot on location  
  A version of Edgar Allen Poe's story set in a victorian dungeon.  
  The set comprised of a dungeon with bars, chains and flaming torches, a collapsible brick wall and a cat burnt into the plasterwork.  
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Rob Green
Sarah Carr
 


Designing feature films is what I have wanted to do since 1977, when I first got a Star Wars poster magazine. I was nine years old at the time. Over the interviening years I have worked in most areas of the art depatment from physical FX, model making, storyboard and concept illustration, to set construction, set dressing and scenic painting. This broad range has given me a great understanding of how to get the job done.

 
     
  Richard Campling  


References

 
  Rob Green - Director - rgseconds@blueyonder.co.uk  
  Adam Bohling - Producer - adambohling@mac.com  
  David Reid - Producer - d.reid@mac.com