“Bridgerton Production Designer Alison Gartshore’s Goal for Season Three of the Netflix Romance Was to MainTain The Establissed Visual World of the Series Weline Pushing NEWEES. One of the Ways She and Her Team Did That Was with New, Elaborate Ballroom Sets Sprinkled Throughout the Season. She discusses with thr the botanical ball in”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
For the Love of Romance
Luke Newton As Colin Bridgerton and Nicola Cough Cup Bridgerton. Liam Daniel/Netflix
Season Three Revolves AROUNDELOPE Featherington (Nicola Coughlan) and Colin Bridgerton’s (Luke Newton) Love Story. Here, they dance in front of the operated flaral pop-up garden that the team only had these days to complete, resulting in a dance of their own between departments. “Every Time The Special Effects People Needed the Box Opening, We Couldn’T Work on the Outside to Get It Ready,” Gartshore Says of Its Construction. “We have to work with them and stand off WHEN wanted it Open, and THEN WHEN iting closed, we all jumped in with our paintbrushes and scalpels and glue, and ith. DONE. ”
High Society
From left: martins imhangbe as will mondrich and emma Naomi as alice in Bridgerton. Liam Daniel/Netflix
Here, we see the Closed CenterPiece Before It Opens, Surrounded by Walls of Paintings that Gartshore Commissioned from the In-House Illustrator. The Team Chose Florals Specifically From the 18th and 19th Centuries, Painted 12 Different Pieces and Tiled Them with Variation, Making Surey they Didn’t Distract from the actors’. The Botanical Ball Was Built on A Stage at A Film Studio on the Outskirts of London, While Other Balls This Season Were Shot on Location in and Armund the English Capital.
The switch-up
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From Start to Finish, Setting Up The Ballroom For The Botanical Ball Took 10 to 12 Weeks. Originally, It Was Supped to Be Called The Butterfly Ball, But ShowRunner Jess Brownell Realized She Had to Leave the butterfly Theme for Later in the Season. Explands Gartshore: “Itft US VERY LITTLE TIME, AND THEN She DROPPED A BOMBSHELL THAT She ALSO NEEDED A MOMENT OF SPECTACLE WHEN WHEN The QUEEN ARIVES.” ” And that’s what the Idea for the pop-up floral centerpiece was Born.
Finishing Touchs
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“We Shoot A Scene for Roughly a Week, SO Maintening Florals Over Period of Time In Hot Studio Conditions Woundn’ Bridgerton HAS PLENTY THAT Are Stoked for Reuse. Tucked Into the Corner of Every Ballroom Set Are The Show’s Home Economists Who Produce Cakes That Are, Unfortunately, Just Props.
Starting from Scratch
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The Unfolding Petal CenterPiece Was Supped to Be StraightForward, But “Of Course, The Simpelst Things Are Never Easy to Do,” Jokes Gartshore. The Structure, Which Took a Week to Assemble, Was Built Out of Painted Paper Petals that would unfold and reveal a whole garden Inside, and The SPECIAL EFFERTS TEAM ENGINEERED ALLNEREED ALL. OPENED AT SAME TIME. “There’s No Cgi. It’s All Practical Effects,“ She Says. “IT PUSHED EVERYONE TO THE LIMIT.”
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