Production Design for Film & Television

PRODUCTION DESIGN

BIO / CREDITS / PRESS

PRODUCTION DESIGN

MARK'S SKETCH BOOK

Production Design for Film & Television

PRODUCTION DESIGN

BIO / CREDITS / PRESS

PRODUCTION DESIGN

MARK'S SKETCH BOOK

Teen Beach Movie

Teen Beach Movie

Disney Channel / Director: Jeffrey Hornaday

Teen Beach Movie is a film within a film, in which two contemporary kids (Ross Lynch and Maia Mitchell) are sucked through a wormhole into a Frankie and Annette-style beach musical set in 1962. Here in the 1962 period is the "cast" of the film withi

Rival gangs of surfers and bikers compete for control of Big Momma's snack shack. We built this Polynesian-inspired beach hut on a gorgeous cove in eastern Puerto Rico.

A shot of Big Momma's exterior from the opposing angle.

A detail shot of Big Momma's exterior.

Big Moma's interior. This stage set was built, painted, and dressed in nine days. It is in the same studio space as the lighthouse/weather machine (see following pictures). There is only one space large enough to accommodate both sets (one at a time

A detail of the dining area and stage in Big Momma's interior with the house band called, naturally, The Momma's Boys.

Another detail shot of Big Momma's interior, showing the multiple levels and the bright, Polynesian sea-scape murals we created to bring a sense of light and air into the space.

A detail shot of the kooky lava lunch counter and kitchen/pass-through in Big Momma's interior.

A detail shot of the booths and tropical murals in Big Momma's interior.

The surfers and the bikers square-off West Side Story-style in Big Momma’s Snack Shack.

Big Momma (LaVon Fisher-Wilson) welcomes the gang to her beach-side Snack Shack

Brady (Ross Lynch) jams out “Cruisin’ for a Bruisin’ ” In Big Momma’s Snack Shack.

Part of the plot of the movie within the movie in Teen Beach Movie revolves around an eccentric developer (Steve Valentine) and a mad scientist (Kevin Chamberlin) who are conspiring to destroy the beach and Big Mommas. I built this abandoned lightho

A detail shot of the mad scientist's (Kevin Chamberlin) weather control machine. It was built with moving parts that spin in opposite directions, a telescoping center, etc.

A detail shot of the mad scientist's (Kevin Chamberlin) control unit for his weather machine.

A detail shot of the massive "power towers" that feed the weather control machine in the mad scientist's (Kevin Chamberlin) spooky old lighthouse. As is often the case in designing for choreography, a designer must anticipate dancers using every sur

An outside view of the lighthouse set nearing completion helps illustrate its volume and shape.

The dastardly land-developer Les Camembert (Steve Valentine) and mad-scientist Dr. Fusion (Kevin Chamberlin) conspire to dominate the world in front of their weather control machine.

The beginning and end scenes in Teen Beach Movie take place on the same beach as the 1962 period scenes but in modern times. This is Big Poppa's (Barry Bostwick) surf shop, a home, and workshop he shares with his granddaughter McKenzie (Maia Mitchel

A detail shot of Big Poppa's (Barry Bostwick) surf shop. We built this interior/exterior set right at the high-tide line on a cove in eastern Puerto Rico. This way our kids could run out the front door, grab their boards and jump right into the sur

An interior shot of the breezy, open kitchen and dining room in Big Poppa's surf shop/house.

A reverse shot showing the casual living room in Big Poppa's surf shop/house.

The workshop in Big Poppa's (Barry Bostwick) surf shop.

A detail shot of the workbench in the workshop of Big Poppa's (Barry Bostwick) surf shop.

McKenzie's (Maia Mitchell) bedroom in Big Poppa's surf shop/house.

Biker girl Lela's (Grace Phipps) over the top, early 1960's bedroom. This was the setting of one half of the musical number "Like Me".

The folding screen becomes a stage in the song “Like Me”.

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