Louis Laybourne Smith School of Architecture and Design
Bachelor of Interior Architecture
Bachelor of Interior Architecture
Renowned
art director and production designer Robert Webb presented a set
production and design masterclass that allowed students to interpret a
screenplay The 13th House and propose a location, art direction and
storyboard as well as set design for the production. The masterclass
culminated in an exhibition of the design work.
Robert Webb first worked in Art department on SERENADES (dir: Mojgan
Khadem) Robert’s second feature film (this time as Art Director) was ONE
NIGHT THE MOON (dir: Rachel Perkins). Robert worked in desert locations
with the extremities of winter and non-stop rain, but his team created a
beautiful settlers house (from an old disused station homestead) and
garden as well as a home for the aboriginal tracker in the film. ONE
NIGHT THE MOON won the AFC award for best cinematography in YEAR.
In 2001, Robert worked on RABBIT PROOF FENCE (dir: Philip Noyce) in Art
Department (as props buyer) and also on BLACK & WHITE as set decorator
(dir: Craig Lahiff). Robert also worked on the features A SHOT OF LOVE
(2003) and PEACHES (2004) as well as a number of other low budget
features in and around the Adelaide area.
His work on WOLF CREEK both as Art Director and Production Designer posed an entirely new set of challenges. Webb had gone from creating settlers’ houses at the turn of the century to designing the lair of a modern day serial killer set in the desert. Robert was nominated for a 2005 I.F. award for production design for his work on WOLF CREEK.
Most recently Robert has been production designer on THE CATERPILLAR WISH (dir: Sandra Sciberras), a low budget feature film that was one of the projects to go through the inaugural IndiVision Project Lab in 2005.
Robert has just completed work as production designer on Greg
MacLean’s second feature film ROGUE.
