CATEGORY: Achievement in art direction
INTERVIEW WITH: Dante Ferretti, Francesca Lo Schiavo
FILM: "SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET"
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Q. Jackie Eagan. Dante. You were originally going to do Sweeney Todd in CGI, I understand, but you ended up building real sets. How do you think this changed the movie in terms of concept?
A. The concept actually is the same, we use CG because it was complementary to most of the sets. It was good for the actor, too and it's real set (unintelligible). But the people on the visual effects did a fantastic job because they completed the sets which I did design.
Q. Hello. You were talking about constructing these real sets. How much is historical study or fantasy? I mean, how did you create them, a lot of research or imagination?
A. Of course, we did many research for the movie. You know, it's Victorian period but at the same time and we have some freedom, just the most important thing was to give the feeling, the right feeling, so it's London, so it's very dark. The only thing we discussed about to make a couple colors, to the movie is almost always in black and white, and the only color was red. Red was for the blood and also for the judge and house. All of those things. And then we have many research, this is the way we did the movie.
Q. Congratulations. Could you tell us a little bit about working with Tim Burton.
A. Like I say in Italian before, I'd like to say in English, it was fantastic, and Tim Burton is a fantastic, fantastic, and I have to do to improve my knowledge, he opened my mind more. He's such a great artist and really, working with him, it was an award.
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