Elle Production Design with Laurin Kelsey: Designing the World Before Legally Blonde
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Laurin Kelsey discusses the production design of the new Prime Video series Elle, exploring how design elements shape the character of Elle Woods.
Production Designer Laurin Kelsey joins Decorating Pages to discuss designing Elle , the new Prime Video series from Amazon MGM Studios . Laurin takes us inside the visual world of a younger Elle Woods and explains how production design helped build her backstory through color, contrast, nostalgia, and character. We talk about finding Elle’s signature pink, creating the difference between Beverly Hills and Seattle, and designing the spaces that shape her world before UCLA and Harvard. In this episode, we discuss Elle’s bedroom, the Woods family house, the Seattle high school, the Cosmo office, Blockbuster, and how the design team balanced 90s authenticity with a fresh visual style for today’s audience. This conversation is a thoughtful look at how production design and set decoration can reveal who a character is becoming through palette, texture, space, and detail. Listen to Decorating Pages for more interviews with the production designers, set decorators, and art department teams behind your favorite shows and films. 👉 Get the FREE Quick Reference Set Decorating Template: www.decoratingpagespodcast.com Discover the Art of TV & Film Design with Decorating Pages Podcast…
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