Transforming visions

It starts with an idea.

It is always said that the art of movie making starts with us telling the visual story. That visual story, is menagerie of talented people coming together, in a multitude of disciplines, to weave together an idea. It is never just one department that makes a show, no matter what someone may tell you.

A camera crew would just be shooting an outdoor scene, or a black box, without the talents of many others, a lighting or rigging crew the same, the art dept would be doing sets for a live performance, without the talent of that said same camera department, and it would be in the dark, if not for grips and lighting, and all of it unachievable, without a production office, or transpo to get us all there. We are a cohesive team, a living breathing entity, that can only function as a whole. Everything though – starts with that ‘idea’ – and a design.

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Bringing scripts to life with visual storytelling

Setting the stage

Doug Teather came to film production, as many typically do, by accident. After pursuing a degree in psychology and english literature, with an eye for a master’s degree from Simon Fraser University, he took the kind of hiatus, that makes your parents stop asking when you might return to your studies. In that time of work, travel, self-reflection, and sometimes, self-destruction, he found his path and returned to his studies full time. With a plan.

After graduating, with honours, in music business management, he completed a degree in theatre design and production, with a minor in art history, graduating again with honours, his goal was a career in live music touring. He spent the better part of the next decade or more, working both locally, and internationally in touring, theatre and special events. Time with Nettwerk Music Groups in-house artists, from Sarah MacLachlan and Avril Lavigne, to Billy Talent and Butterfly Boucher, and various theatre and special event companies, from Brandlive to DAEP, and corporate entities from Ford to the 2010 Olympics he honed his skill set. But – It was on a touring break, that he fell into film, and turned that live visual storytelling, into a love for making film and television. From stage to screen.

Gone

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Imagination meets craftsmanship

With an eventual full circle return to film, and now years of buying, onset work, decorating, and designing when he could, came the desire to take up what he initially trained for, design, and the implementation of the ‘idea’, from manifestation and birth to finished product.

With some victories in between, including a top 10 finalist at Cannes, for art direction, on the short ‘Auto Erotica’, stints on a few critically acclaimed projects, to most recently, finishing a feature project that has been selected for multiple festival slots, Doug is keen to bring his vision in décor and design to not always bigger, but better projects, and work with people who share the passion that sees a project through, not just with speed and efficiency, but with a more compassionate esthetic, and not just with the subject matter, but with the team you work with.

Auto Erotica

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