Twelve years of designing sets for the screen.
Production designer, standby props and props buyer, Denoal Rouaud designs and builds sets for film, television, music videos and commercials, with a loyal crew of technicians.
Approach
How I work
I don’t just decorate; I make it feasible: scouting, design, build, budget and crew, all the way to the finished set.
My eye was shaped between Paris, New York and Montreal. Paris gave me a culture of cinema, New York the energy and inventiveness of independent production, Montreal a dialogue with the visual arts. From all three I keep one conviction: a set must serve the story above all, and be lived in as much as it is filmed.
A script sparks images, materials and colours. We meet and talk it through. I love discovering new worlds and turning a director’s vision into a set.
Give me the budget and the vision: every project gets my eye, an attention to detail that makes the difference, and a crew of outstanding technicians, as people and as artists.
Roles
Four ways to bring a set to life
Production design, film
From script to set: scouting, design, crew and budget. Shorts, features and series.
12 projectsMusic videos & commercials
Strong worlds built fast, for artists and brands.
9 projectsStandby props
Keeping the set alive through every take, right next to the actors.
10 projectsProps buyer
Finding, negotiating and delivering the right object for the set and the props team.
9 projectsBackground
From film archives to film sets
- 2009Training
Master’s degree in Film
Université Paris 8 Saint-Denis
- 2009Experience
Production assistant, Glass Eye Pix
New York
- 2010Experience
Programming coordinator, Silhouette Festival
Paris
- 2011Experience
Communications officer, Eastern Bloc art centre
Montreal
- 2011–13Experience
TV news editor, La Grande Édition, iTélé
Paris
- 2014Training
Prop-making techniques, C.F.P.T.S.
Bagnolet
- 2014On set
First sets as props buyer: Monsieur Cauchemar by Jean-Pierre Mocky, Metal Hurlant Chronicles
- 2015On set
First film as production designer: Envie de, by Catherine Verlaguet
- 2016On set
Production design on Magie noire by Fanny Ardant, standby props on C’est qui cette fille by Nathan Silver
- 2017On set
First commercials as production designer
- 2018Training
Organising the art department for film, Courts On
Paris
- 2020–24On set
Series: Mortel (Netflix), Parlement (France TV), Plus belle la vie, Demain nous appartient
- 2025On set
Montparnasse Aurevoir by Yuxuan Zhang, Du fioul dans les artères by Pierre Le Gall
Brands
Commercial clients
