Dan Hennah- one of the supervisors of ‘The Two Towers’art department- was raised on a farm in New Zealand. He left home when he was just 17 to study architecture at Wellington Polytechnic and Victoria University, but he dropped out when the mood struck him. Dan had been interested in art all his life, spending much of his time drawing and painting, but his parents encouraged him to get a “real job,” driven by the perception that you could never make a living as an artist. In 1981 a friend asked Hennah if he would like a job driving Tatum O’Neill around on the set of ‘Prisoner.’ After six weeks on set watching films being made, Hennah realized how much he liked film. This started his 30 year career in the art department, where he went on to work on ‘The Lord of the Rings’ trilogy as well as ‘King Kong.’
“As an art director, it's all about making it happen, you know, it’s not so much about doing the drawings, it's about picking the drawings up and saying we’re going to do it this way, we’re going to make it happen in this much time for this much money. It's a really disciplined role.”
-Dan Hennah
During the production of ‘The Two Towers,’ Hennah broke down the script with a great deal of discussion about what could be real and what would have to be computer generated. After that, he flew from location to location in New Zealand looking for places that would give the perception of Middle-earth. However, Hennah said much of his job required the reporting of facts back to the director and the production designer so they knew what they were going to get regarding how much money had been spent, what the timeline was, etc. It was critical to have clear communication.
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