Film Production Design
What Are Grandchildren Made Of?
Art Director
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SCAD Productions
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2024
Doll in a trash bag amid coolers labeled with body parts, still from What Are Grandchildren Made Of?
Finished still · What Are Grandchildren Made Of?, 2024

The Brief

A supernatural short film made by SCAD students, shifting between the quirky, the eerie, and the grotesque. The visual world needed to hold all three tones without losing coherence, which required careful, deliberate design choices at every level.

The Work

I stepped into a dual role when our Set Decorator had to drop out mid-production, taking on both Art Direction and Set Decoration responsibilities. The challenge was to capture something genuinely unsettling while keeping the film's dark humor intact.

Process
On set
Practical gore effects and set dressing, built and shot in the two roles at once.
Screened

Screened at the SCAD Spring 2025 Thesis Showcase.

What Are Grandchildren Made Of? · SCAD Productions, 2024