Doctor Who, Marvel & Mission Impossible - Production Design with Phil Sims

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This week on the podcast I talk to Production Designer Phil Sims. Phil started in theatre, worked in music videos before moving onto big budget movies like Skyfall, The Last Jedi, Guardians of the Galaxy, Captain America The First Avenger, Age of Ultron and the latest series of Doctor Who for Disney and the BBC..
I spoke to Phil about how he got into the industry, we talked about his first big film The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, his work on the Milano spaceship on Guardians of the Galaxy and what it was like working on Mission Impossible Fallout and Dead Reckoning Part 1 and the challenges of integrating big stunts with production design.

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Capitole

1. All about Phil and the projects he's worked on (00:00:00)

2. How did Phil start out - from Uni to theatre to big movies (00:00:53)

3. Why work in film and not theatre? (00:05:31)

4. The detail that gets captured on camera (00:09:56)

5. Phillips screw heads - something to look out for (00:12:56)

6. The differences between Art Director, Production Designer and a Supervising Art Director (00:16:12)

7. Do you need to be good with numbers and spreadsheets? (00:21:20)

8. Working on Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - what did Phil work on? (00:24:08)

9. Designing the latest series of Doctor Who (00:25:15)

10. Mission Impossible Fallout and Dead Reckoning - how does it work? (00:27:27)