We build the world behind the scene.
Scenergia is the company behind Skenic, Chronotype and Mombie. It sells nothing of its own. It holds one idea and three tools that serve it.
A script invents a world, then asks an art department to supply it.
Found
Some of the world already exists and has to be found: a van, a desk, a street.
Made
Some of it has never existed and has to be made: the letterhead, the calendar, the label on the drawer.
On glass
And some of it now lives on glass: the message that arrives, the call that will not stop ringing.
Three kinds of work, done by different people, on different days, often in different cities. The audience sees them in one frame.
Why consistency is the point
An invented company is only believable if it is the same company everywhere. The name on the letter has to be the name on the van and the name in the phone, in the same spelling, with the same founding year, in a typeface that could have existed when the story is set.
On a shoot that agreement usually lives in one person's head and a folder of reference. It slips on the reset, on the second unit, on the pickup day six weeks after wrap. Nobody in the cinema can say what went wrong. They only stop believing the room.
So the three products read the same production file. The world is written down once, and each tool takes from it what its layer needs.
Where it comes from
The tools were made inside a working art department. Each one began as something needed on a job that could not be found.
They are built by a designer of 28 years who works as a set graphic designer on international film, television and commercial productions, making the paper, the packaging and the screens that actors hold.
Panagiotis Zachoulitis, Athens. panagiotiszachoulitis.com