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Production Designer

Jefferson Sage

Bio

JEFFERSON SAGE’s (Production Designer) previous credits include Jake Kasdan’s films Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story and The TV Set, and Harold Ramis’ comedy Year One. In addition, Sage designed Judd Apatow’s hit comedy Knocked Up. For television, Sage was the production designer on Apatow’s two series’ Freaks and Geeks and Undeclared, and, more recently, on Larry Wilmore’s The Bernie Mac Show. As art director, Sage’s credits include Analyze This, Donnie Brasco, Mississippi Masala, Blink, One True Thing and Roommates. Sage has a degree in theater arts from the College of William & Mary and continued his studies at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, earning an MFA degree in set and lighting design for the stage. Sage started his career as a designer and assistant designer in stage, opera, ballet, commercials and industrials, before moving into television and feature film work. He currently lives in Los Angeles with his wife and daughter.

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.