In Time

Production Designer: Alex McDowell

     His production Credits include The Crow, Minority Report, The Watchman, Fight Club and the upcoming Man of Steel.  In Minority Report he hired Monster Garage designer Ron Mendell, and sketch designer Herald Belker.  

     Ron Mendell's designs have been used in the Iron Man movies, Star Teck, G.I. Joe, Looper, G.I Joe, Pirates of the Caribbean, and upcoming Oblivion, Oz, and Saving Mr. Banks.

  In-Time had a $40 Million budget but the upcoming Oblivion movie slated for next summer has a $130 Million budget.

   

The cars were a perfect match for the movie since the type of cars are timeless.  

The car the our heros steal is a Lincoln Continental.  The police cars are '68 Dodge Chargers or '71 Plymouth Hemi Barracudas

 

The contrasting colors between the time zones.  All cold tones viruses warm tones.  

The Only vegetation in the whole movie and it comes at the end of the film.  Short grass and shrubs symbolizing the beginning of growth and change.

This screen shot is the crossing over scene.  The foreground is lit in the blues and grays, while in the background all vectors point to the warm tones or new world.

The lower half is warm and the top is cool.

Still Composition

There are a series of vectors within this image of my son.  The vectors help the viewer establish a hierarchy of salience on the page, leading the eye from one element to another.  His arms make an arrow pointing upward to his face, his eyes positioned in the prime thirds position.  The eyes are then draw down the arm to the log pole fence in a swiping arch to the people in the distance.  The end of the fence in the background then pointing as it were back to the face.

I took this shot in Marysville off State Route 89 on the way home from our fall break adventure.  Both vertical stacks of this old mining water drill are positioned in the thirds of the image. As well as horizontally across the top of the tank and along the axel of the front wheels. Several vectors help to present the image as a group of related elements which have an overall unity. The angle of the picture provides depth and an idea of what motion of the object would be like.

Its almost as if my daughter were poking her head into the frame of this shot, yet everything in the image points to her face.  Both the vertical stripes in her shirt and the three ATV trails all have converging vectors that culminate toward her smile.