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ED VERREAUX Production Designer verreauxfilmdesign.com PROJECTS DIRECTORS STUDIOS/PRODUCERS SKYSCRAPER Rawson Marshall Thurber LEGENDARY Consultant Beau Flynn, Wendy Jacobson BILLIONS Various Directors SHOWTIME Season 3 April Taylor, Brian Koppelman MEGAN LEAVEY Gabriela Cowperthwaite LD ENT. Feature Film Bob Huberman, Mickey Liddell MONSTER HIGH Ari Sandel MATTEL / UNIVERSAL Feature Film Lisbeth Rowinski, Josh Schwartz Consultant JURASSIC WORLD Colin Trevorrow UNIVERSAL PICTURES Feature Film Patrick Crowley, Frank Marshall Nominated, Best Fantasy Feature Film – ADG Awards THE GIVER Phillip Noyce THE WEINSTEIN COMPANY Feature Film Ralph Winter STAR-CROSSED Gary Fleder CBS Pilot Joseph Zolfo, Sean Furst Andre Nemec LOOPER Rian Johnson ENDGAME ENTERTAINMENT Feature Film Ram Bergman, Dave Pomier James Stern G.I. JOE: THE RISE OF COBRA Stephen Sommers PARAMOUNT Feature Film Lorenzo di Bonaventura Bob Ducsay, David Womark RUSH HOUR 3 Brett Ratner NEW LINE Feature Film Roger Birnbaum, Andy Davis Jonathan Glickman MONSTER HOUSE Gil Kenan SONY Feature Film Steven Spielberg, Steve Starkey X-MEN: THE LAST STAND Brett Ratner 20TH CENTURY FOX Feature Film Avi Arad, Lauren Shuler Donner Ralph Winter STARSKY & HUTCH Todd Phillips WARNER BROS. Feature Film Stuart Cornfeld, Akiva Goldsman Alan Riche THE SCORPION KING Chuck Russell UNIVERSAL PICTURES Feature Film Stephen Sommers, Kevin Misher James Jacks JURASSIC PARK III Joe Johnston UNIVERSAL PICTURES Feature Film David Womark, Kathleen Kennedy Steven Spielberg MISSION TO MARS Brian De Palma SPYGLASS ENTERTAINMENT Feature Film DISNEY Tom Jacobson, Sam Mercer CONTACT Robert Zemeckis WARNER BROS. Steve Starkey Mr. Verreaux was an Illustrator on several films including Empire of the Sun, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, Poltergeist and E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial. INNOVATIVE-PRODUCTION.COM | 310.656.5151 .

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Manufacturing Realisms
Manufacturing Realisms Product Placement in the Hollywood Film by Winnie Won Yin Wong Bachelor of Arts Dartmouth College 2000 Submitted to the Department of Architecture in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Architecture Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology June, 2002 MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY JUN 2 4 2002 Signature of Author 3, 2002 LIBRARIES Winnie Won Yin Wong, Depar nt of Architecture, May ROTCH Certified by Professor David Itriedman, Assobiate Professor of the History of Architecture, Thesis Supervisor Accepted by Professor Julian\8e,jiart, Professorlof1rchitecture, Chair, Committee on Graduate Students Copyright 2002 Winnie Won Yin Wong. All Rights Reserved. The author hereby grants to MIT permission to reproduce and to distribute publicly paper and electronic copies of this thesis document in whole or in part. 2 Readers Erika Naginski Assistant Professor of the History of Art Arindam Dutta Assistant Professor of the History of Architecture History, Theory and Criticism Department of Architecture 3 4 Manufacturing Realisms Product Placement in the Hollywood Film by Winnie Won Yin Wong Submitted to the Department of Architecture in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Architecture Studies Abstract Through an examination of filmic portrayals of the trademarked product as a signifier of real ownerships and meanings of commodities, this paper is concerned with the conjunction of aesthetic and economic issues of the Product Placement industry in the Hollywood film. It analyzes Product Placement as the embedding of an advertising message within a fictional one, as the insertion of a trademarked object into the realisms of filmic space, and as the incorporation of corporate remakings of the world with film fictions.
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ED VERREAUX Production Designer Verreauxfilmdesign.Com
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