{"id":40116,"date":"2017-07-18T11:11:15","date_gmt":"2017-07-18T11:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/?p=40116"},"modified":"2017-07-18T11:11:15","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T11:11:15","slug":"inside-screen-dystopian-world-black-mirror-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/2017\/07\/18\/inside-screen-dystopian-world-black-mirror-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the Screen: The Dystopian World of the Black Mirror Series"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The series that started on Channel 4 and ended up on the world\u2019s largest streaming platform \u2013 Netflix, of course \u2013 is probably one of the most intricate and well-thought tv shows we have seen in a long time. We consider ourselves to be avid consumers of any series Netflix puts out, however, even if you are not that into tv shows, once you see the Black Mirror series<\/strong><\/em> it is inevitable to fall in love with the wondrous worlds created by the production design team. Each set is thoughtfully conceptualized and built to immerse us in a dystopian version of our own realities, making this tv series the world wide phenomenon it is cutting out to be.<\/p>\n

From a world where people live by rating each other out of five, or a seemingly normal 80\u2019s suburban world where people just go out to have a good time, nothing is ever what it seems, and production designer Joel Collins<\/strong> is the man behind all this. Let\u2019s discover his thrilling world!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Painting Practice<\/a>\u00a0is the London-based design studio responsible for creating the thrilling worlds of the Black Mirror series. Each episode is a new challenge for the design team which creates every piece from scratch, building real-life 3D models of the many props the actors use throughout the series. The way it works is, when a new series is being thought, Painting Practice co-founder Joel Collins<\/strong>, art director Robyn Paiba and graphic designer Erica McEwan work with the series creator, Charlie Brooker,\u00a0and executive producer Annabel Jones to decide upon which concept will guide each episode.<\/p>\n

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For one of the Black Mirror series most iconic episodes, Nosedive<\/strong> with the stunning Bryce Dallas Howard, the production design team had to find the perfect location. They wanted to convey the feeling of the LA lifestyle<\/strong>, but without having to actually shoot in LA.\u00a0\u201cWe wanted to film it somewhere with an LA-style feel,<\/em>\u201d said Collins. \u201cI found a small island about an hour out of Cape Town, which was almost like a fake version of America. When Joe Wright [the director] came on board, we offered it up as a vision for how the tone of the show could work. He flew out there and loved it, so we used it as the basis to construct this Truman Show-esque, Pleasantville-style, perfect-imperfect America.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

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Other episodes might seem a little bit more far-fetched and lived in a reality further away from our own. However, that doesn\u2019t mean we don\u2019t believe what we are seeing. The beauty of production design is to make what we are seeing believable. And this shows definitely does that! You might remember the episode where people were forced to live in small capsules, having to cycle all day to get fake money and get the chance to participate in a twisted talent show. Weird, right?<\/strong> At least when you think about it like that. But what the Painting Practice team does is trying to visualize what alternative futures<\/strong> might look like, and then just go from there, testing with 3D models of each prop and technology that will be used in that particular episode. \u201cIt\u2019s about\u00a0trying to be original\u00a0and fresh each time,<\/em>\u201d Collins explains. \u201cTrying to project possible futures as clearly as you can, with touches of originality.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

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Other episodes, such as \u2018Shut Up and Dance\u2019 and \u2018San Junipero\u2019 look absolutely ordinary from the outside. But, knowing the Black Mirror series as we do, we know from the get go that that doesn\u2019t mean there won\u2019t be a fantastic twist somewhere during the episode. The beauty of these two episodes (although \u2018beauty\u2019 might not be the best word to describe the first one) is how normal and close to our daily lives the sets look.<\/p>\n

In \u2018Shut Up and Dance\u2019,\u00a0all the characters drive normal cars and wear normal clothes and live in normal houses in a small suburban English city. But everything from clothing<\/strong> to the colors<\/strong> used on the protagonist\u2019s bedroom walls is carefully considered to create the desired emotional effect<\/strong> we get at the end.<\/p>\n

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On the other hand, \u2018San Junipero\u2019 is an 80\u2019s resort-themed episode. What we later find out to be an electronically created world, is inspired by the iconic movies of the 1980s decade. Much like Collins explained in an interview, \u201ci<\/em>f I was the person designing the world in that film, I would have used movie references \u2026 if you\u2019re designing this world 30 years in the future, the likely thing to do would be to research things online and watch movies.<\/em>\u201d Using these references enabled the director of that episode to play with its viewers\u2019 emotions and actually change the way they might look at this episode. It created a sense of familiarity<\/strong> and\u2026 normalcy<\/strong>, which left people guessing until the final twist was revealed\u2026<\/p>\n

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