CONCEPTUAL FILM AND TELEVISION DESIGN

you Can't Take it

With You

Play by George S.Kaufman and Moss Hart

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Production Designer: Michael Ruiz-del-Vizo

The assignment was to take the original You Can't Take It With You script and interrupt it as a film set, built on the sound stage of the Savannah Film Studio

3:10

TO

YUMA

Directed by James Mangold

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Screenplay by Halsted Welles, Michael Brandt, Derek Haas

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Production Designer: Michael Ruiz-del-Vizo

The assignment was to redesign two locations for the 2007 film version of 3:10 to Yuma.

I choose the Contention City Hotel Front exterior and Lobby, as well as the Hollander's Saloon exterior and interior.

Cohen & Cohen co.

Architectural Firm

Conceptual Single Camera Film set

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Production Designer: Michael Ruiz-del-Vizo

The assignment was to take room 316 in Crites Hall and design a fictional office; rendered in Photoshop and V-Ray for SketchUp.

The

TWILIGHT 

ZONE

"The Obsolete Man"

Written and Created by Rod Serling

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Production Designer: Michael Ruiz-del-Vizo

The assignment was to create a set for the episode "The Obsolete Man"on The Twilight Zone. The design was based on the Arts and Craft movement.

San Jose

University

San Jose State University, Wasburn Hall 1967

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Production Designer: Michael Ruiz-del-Vizo

Washburn Hall

The assignment was to model an existing dorm during a time of civil unrest. I chose San Jose University in 1967 during the Delano Grape riots; one year before alumni Tommie Smith and John Carlos protest at the Mexico City Olympics.