Field notes on designing graphics for film and television - producing in Greece, on-screen clearance, print, and the tools I build along the way.
Google is putting a reported $75m into a research partnership with A24 to build AI tools for filmmakers. The interesting part isn't the headline - it's what a workflow deal like this shifts a few steps downstream, where the graphics and props get made.
Read ↗The incentive everyone talks about is real - but the things that quietly decide whether a Greek shoot runs smoothly are mostly the ones nobody mentions until they bite.
Read ↗Phones, laptops and TVs are everywhere on screen now - and every one of them is a clearance question. Deciding what's real, fictional or live belongs in prep, not in post.
Read ↗Print-ready isn't the same as printed. A short tour of the lead times, stock decisions and seasonal quirks that decide whether a hero document makes it to set on time.
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