Interior design is one of the aspects of production design in film. An intricately designed set can change entire sequences. What once was bland and dreary can immediately become fantastic and whimsical if the right colors are used. An ordinary abandoned warehouse can look ominous and mysterious with the addition of a few fixtures. Sometimes people take for granted the interior design they see on film.
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Take for example the immensely popular 90s sitcom Friends. One of its biggest appeals is that people find it incredibly comfortable to watch. The same goes with today’s The Big Bang Theory. What’s the one thing both sitcoms have in common? Their interior design. The apartments in both shows are colorful, bright, and cozy. They also look affordable, making viewers say, “hey, I want to live in a place like that.”
The interior of Colorado’s Stanley Hotel was the set for the Stanley Kubrick horror masterpiece, The Shining. What started out as a magnificent and majestic vacation hotspot slowly turned into a gothic, terrifying maze with no exit in sight with just the change of lighting, and a few choice shots of really long corridors.
Even fantasy and science-fiction movies such as The Lord of the Rings and Star Wars sagas, and television shows such as Game of Thrones owe a lot of their otherworldly allure to the magical art of interior design. Interior design is an integral part of a film that transports people to make believe realms.
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