#IwtV production design

[greedandenby]

Interview with the Vampire S01 production design visuals by the awesome Mara LePere-Schloop and her incredible team

Long post!

The Dubai penthouse research board is just so aesthetically pleasing!

Also finding out that the entire backlot set is now rotting in a landfill like our trashboy Lestat made me incredibly sad.

From the super interesting IFF Webinar.

All credits to Mara LePere-Schloop & AMC.

[nalyra-dreaming]

So gonna watch this later 😎

[portraitoflestatonfire]

Mara LaPere-Schloop on creating the Dubai Penthouse

[dlsintegration]

I swore I would win the idgaf war about this but chief I'm really Not

[lestatdelioncoeur]

Production Designer Mara LePere-Schloop details her work on Interview with the Vampire.

[genreawareness]

actually can we talk about that bookshelf the set designer was crazy for that one. i remember looking at that a good three episodes ago when daniel first started going through claudia’s diaries like. oh rich people are so fucking weird. does he have a really long book grabber? does he just pull out a ladder? like all this just for the aesthetics girl please. but noooo armand can fly! so all this history only comes down and can be examined from the source at his will

[hexjulia]

the last trailer i saw really didn't do it for me (wwdits vibes were too strong for me) but this very short one does!! i want to see what they've done with the claudia madeleine scenes so badly.

[half-lightl]

this is worse than I thought omg

[crazykuroneko]

IWTV's Submission for Emmy Awards 2023

These are candidates available on the Emmy ballots from IWTV. I only found links for performers, writing, and directing. I will update if I find other categories. You can find the rest of submissions. And of course, they submitted for The Best Drama Series

Best Lead Actor in Drama

(yes, Jacob listed first on the ballot thanks to his name)

Best Supporting Actor in Drama

Best Supporting Actress in Drama

Best Guest Starring Actor in Drama

Best Guest Starring Actress in Drama

Best Directing in Drama

(Episode 3 and 6, FYI)

Best Writing in Drama

(Episode 5, by Hannah Moskovitch)

EDITED:

The rest of IWTV ballots for technicals and craftw:

Production design: Ep 1

Casting

Cinematography: Ep 1 & Ep 3

Period Costumes: Ep 1

Main Title Design

Period and/or Character Hairstyling: Ep 7

Prosthetic Makeup: Ep 1

Music Composition (Score): Ep 1

Original Music and Lyrics: "Come to Me"

Main Title Music

Music Supervision: Ep 6

Picture Editing: Ep 6 & 7

Sound Editing: Ep 1

Sound Mixing: Ep 1

Stunt Performance: Ep 3

Voting period for nomination round: June 15–26

Nominations announced: July 12

[ileftmysoulinnorway]

We all had a tough end of the week, so I thought I would put together something about my IWTV set lurking experience in Prague, hopefully to cheer someone up and show you that the people working on our little show are incredible, everything is well thought out, and we have a lot to look forward to.

Locations

I am confident that Prague will be a good substitute for Paris. I love this post comparing Prague's Théâtre des Vampires location with a real Le Grand Guignol in Paris. But similar care is given to other locations as well.

I like to joke that I enjoyed a month-long tour of Prague's most famous landmarks, only to have the actual filming take place in nondescript alleyways right next to them. But it makes perfect sense. They want to capture the nicer and older parts of the city that suit them, but not anything that would tell you it's Prague.

Production design, costumes

I saw them build everything from scratch on several sets. And I'm in awe. From putting up posters that will probably only appear in the background of a single shot, to street names that fit the exact topography of Paris and make sense in the context of the scenes that take place on them, to storefronts that they really didn't have to pay that much attention to, or a menu at Le Dakar Café that you could only read up close, but someone took the trouble to make it anyway?

And maybe this attention to detail is normal, I don't know, but I still think Mara and her team deserve all the praise they get.

S1 showed us how much attention is paid to the costumes. I can assure you that has not changed. All the hats, coats, capes and dresses. I can't tell you how many times I've been pleasantly surprised. By the choice of colors for Lestat. By how beautifully all of Armand's black clothes come to life with little details.

People

There are so many people (and I mean SO many) working on the show and they all know exactly what is expected of them, everything runs like a well-oiled machine. I haven't seen any problems, any conflicts, any excesses.

I'm not under any illusion that everything was trouble-free, but really the only complaints I heard were about the horrendously hellish schedule (I guess that's normal) and then the occasional person wishing they had finished earlier (they never finished earlier).

They are all heroes to me.

Directors

Levan is the only one I saw. He seems so focused and professional. His "rolling...and action" is unforgettable.

Actors

After six locations and about fifteen scenes (and countless rehearsals and takes), I think I managed to get at least some idea of them, and yes, they really seem to be such nice people.

- Jacob, I don't envy him at all the emotional strain of playing Louis, but at the same time I love his portrait of Louis so much.

- Sam's transformation into Lestat is something to behold.

- Assad was the only one present on every set. I don't think we've fully realized how big a role he's going to have (at least in S2).

- Delainey, Ben, Roxane and everyone else 💜

Scenes

They were far from finished when the strike started, but at least (in my opinion) they got to the last block of episodes. 

I'm not going to pretend to have a concrete idea of what to expect from S2 based on what little I saw. But I do have a few guesses, and I'm insanely excited and thrilled. And, in the case of the 1700s flashbacks, totally confused. I can't believe they're going to do so many unexpected things, or other things so soon.

I truly believe that S2 will not disappoint any of us. We just have to wait a little longer. But if this strike means that everyone gets a better deal and the studios are forced to change their ways, it will be worth the wait.

[nalyra-dreaming]

Mara shared this in her webinar… (a while back)

Anne, printing a page against a restaurant… 😅

[saintarmand]

these cartoons about the grand guignol are probably what inspired the "obligatory medical examinations before the spectacle" sign above the théâtre des vampires!

[Maurey also had a special gift for public relations. One of the most famous incidents in the Grand Guignol history is recounted in a cartoon from a 1904 issue of the Journal. Attempting to revive his wife, who has just fainted from the shock of a Grand Guignol production, a customer shouts for a doctor. In the theatre’s foyer, Maurey replies that unfortunately the doctor too has collapsed. Although most readers passed the story off as the ultimate Grand Guignol joke, many “Guignolers” assert an event like it actually happened at the turn of the century. Another cartoon from the same period shows an old doctor, under orders from the Police Commissioner, checking the hearts of potential Grand Guignol customers before they were allowed to enter the “House of Horror.”]

From Theatre of Fear and Horror by Mel Gordon, on the history of the Grand Guignol of Paris, which served as inspiration for the Théâtre des Vampires for both Anne Rice and the IWTV set designers.