一览《Mad Men》拍摄场景设计

美国 AMC 旗下的金牌剧集《Mad Men》在近几年的各大影视颁奖典礼上可谓拿奖拿到手软，剧中的男主角 Jon Hamm 和女主角 January Jones 也因为此剧的火爆热播而人气直升。《Mad Men》系列剧集的最大特色就是营造出了上世纪美国 5、60 年代广告业的掘起，以及那个璀璨年代的浮华荣光。为了营造出那个时代的文化特征，美术设计 Dan Bishop 和布景师 Claudette Didul 可谓绞尽了脑汁。而编剧 Matthew Weiner 则请来了《Only Magazine》的室内设计师 Cindy Allen 来帮助剧组工作人员呈现出上世纪 5、60 年代，东海岸和西海岸截然不同的室内布局。日前，剧组开放了他们位于洛杉矶的摄影棚让大家有幸可以一睹这些拍摄场景的风采，喜欢的朋友不要错过。此外，Interior Design 还特地专访了 Don Draper，完整内容不妨点击这里阅读。

You mentioned learning there was a distinction between modernism on the East Coast versus West.

Yes, our set for Don and Betty Draper’s Westchester house is pretty much like houses in Baltimore. I thought it would be possible for the Drapers to have a Heywood-Wakefield dining set, but my team said, “No, no, no!” Even the color palette—I was thinking more sand and aqua, but it wasn’t. The sets needed to be not just Danish mid-century but East Coast Danish mid-century. It’s exciting to be that specific. I looked at documentaries and ads from the time period. It became this huge education.

Can we talk about your team?

Everyone is not just fetishistic about detail but also always concerned with storytelling. Everything is story. All the clutter you see reflects the characters. What’s revolutionary is that all the sets connect. For example, the Sterling Cooper office is some version of the Drapers’ apartment, which is quintessentially mid-century Knoll, Herman Miller, Steelcase.

I am forever asking photographers to shoot as if they were telling a story. How do you breathe life into a creation of your own imagination?

I’m working in a completely fake environment where we control everything. How do we make this feel like it’s real? In every picture of an office from 1930 on, the wires are cut off every lamp, because they look terrible. I tell the set-design team, “Put the wires on!” Right away, something happens. Why is there all that ugly stuff hanging off the desks? Because that’s how it would really be. It’s just as important for me to show a character’s open desk drawer with a half roll of Life Savers, with the paper rolled back, as it is to find the perfect dining table.