Rostrus Film Set by Mark Melnikov is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 Bronze A' Design Award in Fine Arts and Art Installation Design Competition Category.
BronzeFine Art· 2021
Rostrus Film Set
Client: Mark Melnikov
Bronze A' Design Award Winner in Fine Art Category
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About Rostrus Film Set
Today visual effects for films are primarily created using computer technologies. Despite that, Rostrus was made as a real-life film set with an opportunity for 360 degree shooting. The team followed the traditional approach in order to avoid discordance between actors and digital environment. The model is 1:1000 scale and finely detailed, which allows to shoot from a distance of up to 2 centimeters to the surface.
The Recognition
About the Bronze A' Design Award
Rostrus Film Set is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a highly prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. Rostrus Film Set is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. Rostrus Film Set splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.
Interviews
Design Interview
What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
I have always been a big fan of «The Lord of the Rings», and Peter Jackson’s vision of Middle-earth influenced me a lot. In fact, this is a reason why I decided to devote myself to the film industry. I like the fact that they used real-life architectural miniatures for the shooting instead of CG technologies. I am sure that is why the films look so impressive and realistic, so I try to follow this approach in my work.
What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
The idea was to create an architectural form that would match the style of LOTR, but also have my personal touches. In other words, my goal was to take the existing Middle-earth appearance and push it a little forward.
What are your future plans for this award winning design?
I haven’t got any particular planes for this work, I assume it looks perfectly as a part of my apartment interior. But if it is a chance to make a combined shooting with this miniature (for a film or video), I will be on board.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Despite the fact that today almost all visual effects for films are mostly created using computer technologies, Rostrus was made in traditional technique. This approach allows to achieve the feeling of realism and immersion, and that is what audience wants. The high level of detail makes the model look plausible, when a viewer sees it on screen, he subconsciously recognizes a real-life model and becomes more involved and captured. Compared to computer 3D models, this real-life set is more plausible and cross-functional. It can be used not only for shootings, but for exhibitions as well.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Width 600mm x Depth 400mm x Height 760mm
- Tags
- movie set, tolkien, lord of the rings, weta, diorama, hobbit, silmarillion, lotr amazon
- Production Technology
- The model is made of medium density fiberboard, acrylonitrile butadiene styrene, polyvinyl chloride. The set is molded and casted with poured plastic (SmoothCast).
- Design Challenge
- The hardest thing of designing a landmark of a fantasy world is to make it both plausible and impressing.You have to take into consideration the entrenched style and fit in the cultural context.
- Research
- During the pre-production research the team collected hundreds of behind-the-scenes photos from The Lord of the Rings and original John Howe sketches. We tried to analyse the architectural style of Middle-Earth and push it a little further.
- Inspiration
- For this project the team derived inspiration from J.R.R.Tolkien books and The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy. The goal was to create a new architectural set relying on artistic style of John Howe and living up to the highest standards of Weta Workshop.
- Project Duration
- The project started in April 2020 in Novosibirsk and finished in September 2020, and was made specially for A'Design Award Competition.
- Operation Flow
- The set is good to use with professional high-resolution film cameras.
- Patents
- Copyrights belong to Mark Melnikov, 2020
- Team Members
- Creative direction: Mark Melnikov
Assistance: Kseniia Starygina - Image Credits
- Image #1: Photographer Nataliya Degtyareva, Rostrus, 2020
Image #2: Photographer Nataliya Degtyareva, Rostrus, 2020
Image #3: Photographer Nataliya Degtyareva, Rostrus, 2020
Image #4: Photographer Nataliya Degtyareva, Rostrus, 2020
Image #5: Photographer Nataliya Degtyareva, Rostrus, 2020
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