Oscar-Winning Costume Designer Jenny Beaven On Her Career, Working on Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, Cruella, & More
In this episode, we welcome three-time Oscar-Winning Costume Designer Jenny Beaven. Jenny has brought her talents to films including A Room with a View, Howards End, Swing Kids, The Remains of the Day, Sense and Sensibility, Jane Eyre, Gosford Park, The Gathering Storm, Alexander, Defiance, Sherlock Holmes, The King’s Speech, Mad Max: Fury Road, Cruella, and Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga. In our chat, she shares about her upbringing, path into costume design, and her experiences working on a variety of award-winning films. In addition, Jenny reveals many of her influences — and offers advice for up-and-coming Costume Designers today. “The Making Of” is presented by AJA:How Cromorama solves HDR production challenges with AJA ColorBoxCromorama is transforming HDR workflows for live production across the globe, using AJA ColorBox and its integrated ORION-CONVERT pipeline to power SDR/HDR transforms, quality control checks, and more for high-stakes productions like the UEFA EURO 2024 Championship. Find out how in this interview with Cromorama CEO and CTO Pablo Garcia hereIgelkott Studios: Redefining Driving PlatesSay goodbye to the limitations of array rig plates. Igelkott’s precision-crafted single-lens driving plates deliver perfect parallax, seamless stitching, and true-to-life depth—no mismatched angles or post headaches. The choice of top filmmakers for flawless in-camera realism. Experience the future of driving plates at www.igelkottplates.comExplore the OWC Jellyfish Nomad:Discover how the OWC Jellyfish Nomad turned a desolate location in the Utah Salt Flats into a fully equipped, mobile production studio. This compact, powerful device allows video professionals to manage, share, and collaborate on high-resolution projects in remote environments. Click through to see how you can streamline your workflow, no matter where your next shoot takes you! Read hereIntroducing Atomos Sun Dragon: A Rope Light Made for Filmmakers.The world's first full sun-spectrum rope light, Sun Dragon offers creatives more options. It’s uniquely flexible, so it fits into places other lights can’t. You can wrap it around objects for creative highlighting and special, colour-controllable effects including dramatic underlighting. The world’s first sun spectrum, HDR, waterproof, DMX controlled, 2000 lumen 5-color LED, mount-anywhere, lightweight flexible production and cinema rope light.Learn more hereCSS Music Presents Your 1-Stop Source for Royalty Free Music:Unlimited Uses In Unlimited Productions — 8 Power Searches including 2 AI applications, Pay As You Go pricing or choose from 2 subscription plans with rollover feature, a Playlist Tool, and E-Z Cue Sheet App.Browse here or call 1.800.468.6874ZEISS Introduces the Otus ML:The ZEISS Otus ML lenses are crafted for photographers who live to tell stories. Inspired by the legendary ZEISS Otus family, the new lenses bring ZEISS’ renowned optical excellence combined with precise mechanics to mirrorless system cameras. Thanks to the distinctive ZEISS Look of true color, outstanding sharpness and the iconic “3D-Pop” of micro-contrast, your story will come to life exactly like you envisioned. A wide f1.4 aperture provides outstanding depth of field directing attention to your focus area, providing a soft bokeh that elegantly separates subjects from the background. The aspherical design effectively minimizes distortion and chromatic aberrations. Coupled with ZEISS T* coating that reduce reflections within a lens, minimizing lens flare and enhancing image contrast, and color fidelity.Learn more herePodcast Rewind:March 2025 - Ep. 70…“The Making Of” is published by Michael Valinsky.To advertise your products or services to 130K filmmakers, video pros, TV, broadcast, live event production pros, & photographers reading this newsletter, email us at
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