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Geico/History Channel

"Deadliest Catch" (Spot)

Production Designer

Directors: Josh Ruben and Vincent Peone

Production Company: Big Block Live

For this one we transformed the kitchen area of the location Douglas House into a "man cave" for our character watching Deadliest Catch. We Shot 9 spots in two days all within Douglas House and for various Discovery Channel brands (Velocity, TLC, ID, Destination America, Discovery Family...)

Before: Kitchen/Man Cave

This was our area to work with and our biggest setup for the shoot. This area generally serves as the locations dining portion of the kitchen.

After: Mancave

We laid vinyl "wood" flooring down over the tile floor and built a flat with a return wall to create a basement effect.

After: Man Cave

Here is the final reveal of the spot. The character's den has adopted elements from the show Deadliest Catch. We dumped a bucket of water on the actor for nearly every take. This was our first setup of the spot so we had to restore the set to suit a pre-reveal state of the man cave.

Comcast

"XFinity Tripple Play"

Production Designer

Director: Josh + Vince

Production Company: Big Block Live

We shot this upstate and put together a bunch of funny quirky sets :) These videos haven't been released yet, more references to follow soon :)

Warner Bros.

Inherent Vice EPK Interviews

Production Designer

Director: Aaron Skotland

Production Company: Trailer Park

Here we transformed an empty conference room at the Trump Hotel to reflect the look and feel of the film set in 1970. These interviews are official content to promote the feature film and will be featured in the special features portion of the DVD once it is released. We put together about three looks throughout the course of two days of interviews.

Before: Conference Room

This is what the room looked like before we set up. They were nice enough to clear out everything before we arrived so we had a blank canvas.

Comedy Central

"Lee's Kill List" (Pilot Presentation)

Production Designer

Directors: Josh Ruben and Vincent Peone

Production Company: Josh + Vince

For "Lee's Kill List" we had the fun challenge of turning this former corrections office-turned-Rent-A-Center-turned-county-owned furniture storage unit into a functional office space where most of the pilot's action took place. We were lucky in that we had the location's office furniture at our disposal, the only problem was there was a way too much of it. The other issue we had with the space was that it was slightly too big for what we were shooting and had to devise a way to close off some of the excess space while still maintaining the spirit of the original location for our "Peppy Spotter Office," where the main character is a salesman for a cleaning supply company .

We ended up clearing the space of any unwanted furniture and stashed it on a camera-safe side of the room using the filing cabinets as a wall to block the furniture. We then built a plug for the alcove shown below and installed two doors in the flats: one for the restroom, one for the manager's office. We used the adjacent space for our office pantry. We cleared that area of any furniture and installed a sink on top of cabinets, wall cabinets and dressed it with a table, chairs and a water cooler.

We had logos made for our fictional cleaning product, "Peppy Spotter" as well as a trophy prop and a safety trophy made out of foam that was lobbed at the back of one of our characters in a dramatic scene.

Before: Peppy Spotter Office

We had our work cut out for us here. Almost all of this furniture had to be removed, save the furniture we wanted to use.

Before: Peppy Spotter Office, Office Pantry

We used this as our office pantry area. Again almost all of the furniture and cubicle walls you're seeing here had to be removed. We brought in a countertop and sink with cabinets that we installed into the wall along with a water cooler. We were lucky enough to have a surplus of tables and chairs to chose from...

Before: Peppy Spotter Office

Alcove full of furniture before we installed a plug with two doors: one acting as the bathroom door, and the other as the manager's office. Almost all of this furniture had to be moved.

Before: Peppy Spotter Office

Here's another view of our office. To cut off the excess area we used some of the location's many filing cabinets to not only create a temporary wall, but also act to block off an area to store the remaining furniture we were not going to use.

Before: Peppy Spotter Office

Here's another view of the alcove that we plugged.

After: Peppy Spotter Office

Here's the alcove wall with the plug in. Our carpenter and dresser did a great job- most people forgot it wasn't part of the location. The desks and chairs were the locations but most of the dressing was brought in.

After: Peppy Spotter Office

Here's our main character, Lee talking to his office crush with our alcove plug wall behind him.

After: Peppy Spotter Office

Another view of the office after it was dressed.

After: Peppy Spotter Office

Here's our giant filing cabinet wall. Aside from being a great place to hide unused furniture behind, it was also defined the entry way much more comfortably than having a blank open space.

Killer Salesman Award

This was a big prop of ours. This was an award the office bully had on his desk that eventually had to be heaved at said bully. To the left is the replica of the original award that we made out of foam that we used to throw at our actor.

Manager's Office

Here is Lee, our main character in the manager, Ned Lardpacker's office. We had the "Peppy Spotter" logo designed, printed an applied to the bottles you see here as well as on the door of the entrance and scattered throughout the office.

Manager's Office

Here's Ned, the Peppy Spotter office's malevolent overlord. Just like the office's main "bullpen" we had to clear this room of almost every piece of furniture. Everything in this photo is brought in from rental houses or other parts of the location.

Pampers

"Goodbye Saggy Bottom Blues" (Rip)

Production Designer

Director: Nate Taylor

Production Company: Kyle Edit

Kyle Edit was asked to make a rip for an upcoming pampers commercial. We were working with the production company's editing office as our space to shoot. We had three main setups: a nursery, a living room and a master bedroom. We weren't using the entire room for these so dressing was kept to about half of the room.

Before: Living Room

For this set, we cleared sofa, the coffee table and all the knick-knacks to create a cozy but clean environment.

Before: Living Room

Here's another shot of the area we converted to our living room set.

After: Living Room

We softened up the room with a large area rug and lots of soft pillows and throws. Pampers uses teal in their branding color pallet and wanted to tie that in as much as we could. We purchased several teal accents along with artwork that was soft and muted but still bold enough to make a stylish statement. The bear in the middle is our stand-in for our infant.

Before: Nursery

We used another one of the smaller editing suites as our nursery. We mainly stuck to playing two walls. Again our goal was to soften the space as much as possible.

After: Nursery

The lavender was already a pretty bold statement so we wanted to lighten the room up as much as we could so we went with white furniture and frames. The pictures were made using a fabric background and wall figurines as a centerpiece. Like the living room we brought in a rug to really tie things together.

After: Nursery

Here's another view of the nursery. We added curtains to further create a softer look.

After: Master Bedroom

We had a close shot of toddlers playing on a large bed. The shots were all very close, only seeing part of the bed, the headboard and some of the artwork overhead. The headboard was made using a small foam mattress, reinforcing it with plywood and basically upholstering it with canvas drop cloth; a very simple and cost effective way to create a modern look.

After: Master Bedroom

A wider shot of our bedroom setup. The wall behind the bed before dressing it for the shoot had an entry table and a large mirror.

Black Forest

"Mama Bear"

Production Designer

Director: Dan Powell

Production Company: Click 3X

We shot 6 promos in two days. The spots were centered around a mother and her three very messy kids so we had a lot of very involved setups. We had picture cars overloaded with vacation gear and toys on the roof, food messes in a car, a princess/dragon cake that fell apart on cue and then got smashed on cue in a kitchen, a glitter fight, and a continuous steady-cam shot throughout the entire ground floor level of the house at the top of the first day of shooting. We had a lot on our plate, but we got through it and everything looked great.

Princess Castle/Dragon Cake

The cake was script-specific and had to be made. This was a spread in practical magazine prop we made. I created a styrofoam base and covered the cake in fondant. The dragon's base is made out of newspaper and masking tape and then decorated with fondant, icing and gumdrops. We tried to incorporate as many candies in the Ferrara Candy family, Black Forest's umbrella company.

Road Trip

Here's the minivan we overloaded with vacation items. The picture car had a "naked roof," which means it was without any factory roof mounts. It was crucial that the roof remained undamaged. We were able to secure our items without any damage to the vehicle. We had the license plate made, and printed custom bumper stickers.

LAUREN BURGE