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Production Designer

James Newport

Bio

James Newport is a writer and Emmy®-nominated production designer of both film and television who divides his time between Thailand and Los Angeles. Newport’s film credits include Brokedown Palace, The Stepfather and Heart Like a Wheel. For television, Newport designed the pilot episodes of “The Lyon’s Den,” “The Shield,” “The Education of Max Bickford” and “China Beach.” His work on “The Piano Lesson” for the Hallmark Hall of Fame was nominated for an Emmy in Art Direction.

Newport’s first novel, The Vampire of Siam was published in 2004 by Asia Books, followed by Ramonne in 2005 and The Reckoning in 2006, completing The Vampire of Siam trilogy. He recently completed Chasing Jimi, a novel about Jimi Hendrix. In July of 2002, he was invited to the Elephant Conservation Center in Lampang, Thailand to be an artist in residence for a day of painting with elephants. That experience gave birth to the first Thai Elephant Painting Calendar, a collaboration between Newport and his longtime friend Patrick Shrimp Gauvain. The 2005 calendar was published and distributed internationally by Pomegranate Press.

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Production Designer- Job Description

The PD is engaged when the scale of, or the approach to, the production requires special coordination between several departments. The PD's duties include: (a) generating set design sketches and renderings, location selections and treatments; and design concepts relating to the set decoration, properties, special effects, lighting, costuming, make-up and hair; (b) collaborating with the Producer, Director and DOP to realize these elements on film; (c) working with the Director and DOP to determine key shots; (d) establishing production budgets and schedules in conjunction with the Producer and Director; (working the the Art Director and the applicable departments to achieve the style of a motion picture production.