# Blade Runner: settings, sketches, models etc.

Blade Runner has been filmed in the very early 80's and was therefore registered in the tradition of giant models and settings in order to achieve a science-fiction scenery.
I particularly invite you to watch this short documentary about the construction of the first scene of the movie offering a view on a dark Los Angeles which main light comes from the various oil rigs' fires. One get to learn in this documentary that those fire spills were originally shot for Michelangelo Antonioni's Zabriskie Point (see previous post) !
The following images are excerpted from a book entitled Film Architecture edited by Dietrich Neumann about which I should soon write another article...