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Alejandra Valera: Writer + Occasional Filmmaker

The Teenage Bedroom

5/13/2016

 
As a production design enthusiast, Ferris Bueller’s bedroom still continues to give me life. It was effortlessly cool -- although clearly obvious that a lot of planning was attention to detail was given to it.  ​This was my dream bedroom when I was teen, mainly because I believed it was a teen's room.  It spoke of Ferris' character and what he wanted to surround himself with.
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One of the films I worked on featured a teen girl’s bedroom, and my approach to it was somewhat influenced by Ferris’ room.  ​
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Of course, one must also take into consideration the story, the characters, the look of the entire film -- what is it trying to say?  
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A teen bedroom can be tricky because while it is a teen's room it is ultimately the parents who are paying for the furniture, who are painting the walls, buying the bedding, etc.  So certain expectations are still to be met.
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The lived in details are often the hardest to achieve without having it look too staged.   
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 It’s a process… ​​
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