Regina Graves is an Oscar nominated New York-based set director whose credits include The Irishman, the Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Step Up 3D, and War of the Worlds! Growing up, Regina didn’t even know what a set decorator was. When she was working at Pier 1 in New Jersey, she made the acquaintance of a set decorator who came in to shop at the store, and that was the very first time she even heard about what it was. She was an aspiring architect and went to school for Interior Design, but she struggled with finding a job in her field. Her journey into set decorating started by answering an ad for a job opening for a salesperson at a prop house, and she found her way into set decorating from there. Regina was able to find a way to use her interior design training to decorate a fantasy world through production, rather than actual people’s real-life, permanent homes.

In this episode, Regina talks about the process a set decorator goes through from being hired for a job, to breaking down the script, characters, and time period, to meetings with the production designer, building a team, working with a budget, and more!

What you can learn in the episode:

The job of a set decorator and all it entails
Expectations vs. Reality of working in production
The importance and necessity of a good notebook

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