In February 2017, the American director Thomas Burns invited me to be a production designer for his advertising video for n_vestingate, an international network of experienced investigative journalists.
For the intro scene of the video we needed to create a mix of FBI field headquarters and a busy newsroom.
The location was a half abandoned atrium hall somewhere in the labyrinths of the Georgian Film Studios. Some challenge!
Then I realized why I had been storing all that scrap paper for all those years....
It took 1,5 days to build the set. The first evening looked like that:
Another move we made was going to Eliava, Tbilisi's largest construction market, to find old industrial lamps and lighting fixtures.
Towards
the camera.
Action!