Sarah Mursal

ART DIRECTOR

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Production Designer and Art director working within Film, TV, Commercials & Events.

Experienced in: Design, Art direction, Set Decoration, Styling and Buying. Able to provide dressing and setting up for sets in Studio or Locations.

Can facilitate and manage: Teams up to 50+ people, construction and project builds. Produce Art department budgets, breakdown scripts and research visual references for preliminary ideas for projects.

Skilled at style suggestions in accordance with client briefs and projecting estimations.

Is a design historian and interested in cultural hybrids in design. Recently completed a Masters at the RCA / V&A.

Has mentored in the UK and Middle East.
Teaching at Ravensbourne since Jan ’19.

SKILLS:
  • Sketching
  • Project management
  • Photoshop & Illustrator
  • Sketch-up
  • Model making
  • Prop making
  • Graphics
  • Sewing
  • Working with SFX
  • Use of generators
  • Snow machines & Confetti canons
  • Draughting
  • Puppeteering
  • Sourcing/Fixing, Furniture assembly
  • Floristry
  • Food styling
  • Driving van
  • Basic rigging
  • Cataloging
  • Use of power tools
  • Basic knowledge of carpentry
  • Painting & Illustration
  • Cultural sensitivity and Mentoring
LOCATIONS WORKED IN:
  • Qatar
  • Barcelona
  • Valencia
  • France
  • Brazil
  • Australia
  • New Zealand
LANGUAGES:
  • English
  • Arabic
  • Portuguese
  • French
EQUIPMENT:
  • Small kit
  • Driving licence
REPRESENTED BY:
  • Art Department
    +44 (0) 207 428 0500
    info@art-department.co.uk

Commercials

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Menopause Awareness Melo The Edge Pictures

 

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Hotels.com Bradford Young Somesuch

Akin McKenzie

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Samsung   Radical Media

Oian Arteta

Art Director
Badoo   Untold Fables

 

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Puma   Revolution

 

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Multi-Gyn Charlie Watts  Reblis Films

 

Production Designer
PWC Ruth Sewel Novel Thoughts

 

Production Designer
Tati VK Jay Armitage (US)

Chaika

 

Production Designer
Puma ‘She Moves Us’ Yaara Sumeruk (US)

Sweet Ricky / Falca / Revolution

 

Art Director
Stills Shoot (model was Tatiana Korsakova)

 

Chaika Events

Production Designer
John Lewis Christmas Mark Molloy Smuggler Nathan Parker Art Director
LNER-Bounce Rodrigo Vauldez Birth London Jakob Gierse Art Director
Sky Max Neil Gorrindge Sky Creative Oian Arteta Art Director
Google Cloud   Just So Ben Smith Stylist
BT Tom Ainton Pretzel Films   Production Designer
Deloitte Tom Ainton Pretzel Films   Production Designer
JBL Chris Ranson Pretzel Films   Production Designer
LNER Ben Archard Vanity Brothers   Production Designer
Carsberg “tweets” 2 Richard Pengelley Dirty Films   Production Designer

Film & Drama

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The Bad Girl Alejandro Bazzano Salt Films

Lorenza Manrique

 Supervising Art Director
Hurst: The One and Only Ron Scalpello Matthew Lorenzo Productions / Sky Documentaries   Art Director
The Bay of Silence   TBOS Films Harry Amerallaan Set Decorator
Married to a Peado   Brinkworth / Channel 4 Harry Chapman Art Director
Fashion   BBC / Carnival Films James Lewis Asst Art Director
Moses Jones   BBC Drama Simon Elliot Asst Art Director

Music Videos

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Mimi Webb  “Halfway”

Malia James

Stink Rising

  

Production Designer
Mimi Webb Malia James Sony Music / Stink   Production Designer
Duran Duran ‘Girl Panic’ Jonus Akerlund RSA / Black Dog Joseph Bennet Column 5 Value 2
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