Great Expectations
  • Year: 2007
  • Production Designer: Kristen Adams
The dark conceptual visualization is based on Mitch Glazer's 1996 film script for Charles Dickens' novel "Great Expectations." The concept is a dismal world that is based upon using the Vizcaya mansion in Florida and layering it with set dressing of distressed interiors from the photography of Robert Poldori. Included are costume rendering for the main characters, interior/exterior renderings, and a ¼” model of Miss Dinsmoor's mansion designed to be built at Steiner Studio's, Brooklyn, New York. The Miss Dinsmoor's illustration was published in the Live Magazine 2007 edition.
Miss Dinsmoor's bedroom.
Miss Dinsmoor's costume design includes pieced together wedding items that are dated and stained. Liza Minnelli is casted.
Estella's costume and color arc as she begins the story as a child living a fairytale into a jaded adult.
Rendering of the exterior of the mansion. Overgrown and unkept.
Overhead camera angle of ballroom.
Rendering of the interior ballroom.
Exterior manor garden.
Reverse camera angle in the manor garden.
Illustration of Estella as a child in the garden.
Illustration of Miss Dinsmoor in mansion.
Illustration of Estella in manion.
1/4" model of mansion interiors. Emphasis was placed on a "Sunset Blvd." moment of her descending the staircase.
Staircase.
Main entrance.
Ballroom.
Close-up of Ballroom.
Overhead view of solarium in the mansion. An element that allows the exterior world to collapse within.
Close-up of overhead view.
Large archways and halls provided camera dolly moves.