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Mad Men's final episode aired on May 1. Mad Men is set primarily in the 1. Watch Plastic Paradise: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Online Moviesdbz.

Sterling Cooper advertising agency on Madison Avenue in New York City, and later at the newly created firm, Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce (later Sterling Cooper & Partners), located nearby in the Time- Life Building, at 1. Sixth Avenue. According to the show's pilot, the phrase "Mad men" was a slang term coined in the 1. Madison Avenue to refer to themselves, a claim that has since been disputed.[2]Don Draper (Jon Hamm) is featured in the series, initially as the talented creative director at Sterling Cooper and later a founding partner at Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce, and the people in his personal and professional lives. The plot focuses on the business of the agencies as well as the personal lives of the characters, regularly depicting the changing moods and social mores of the United States through the 1. The series begins with season one in March 1. November 1. 97. 0 by the conclusion of season seven. Throughout its run, Mad Men received widespread critical acclaim for its writing, acting, and historical authenticity; it has won many awards, including 1.

Emmys and five Golden Globes. The show was also the first basic cable series to receive the Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series, winning in each of its first four seasons.[3] It is widely regarded as one of the greatest television series of all time.[4][5][6][7][8][9]Production[edit]Conception[edit]In 2. Becker, Matthew Weiner wrote the first draft as a spec script for the pilot of what would later be called Mad Men.[1.

Television producer David Chase recruited Weiner to work as a writer on his HBO series The Sopranos after reading the pilot script in 2. It was lively, and it had something new to say," Chase said. Here was someone [Weiner] who had written a story about advertising in the 1. American history through that prism."[1. Weiner and his representatives at Industry Entertainment and ICM tried to sell the pilot script to HBO and Showtime, both of which passed. Lacking a suitable network buyer, they tabled sales efforts until years later when a talent manager on Weiner's team, Ira Liss, pitched the series to AMC's Vice President of Development, Christina Wayne.[1. The Sopranos was completing its final season then, and the cable network happened to be getting into the market for new series programming.[1.

The network was looking for distinction in launching its first original series," according to AMC Networks president Ed Carroll, "and we took a bet that quality would win out over formulaic mass appeal."[1. Influences[edit]Weiner listed Alfred Hitchcock as a major influence on the visual style of the series, especially the film North by Northwest.[1. He also was influenced by director Wong Kar- wai in the music, mise en scène, and editorial style. Weiner noted in an interview that M*A*S*H and Happy Days, two television shows produced in the 1. He also says that "Mad Men would have been some sort of crisp, soapy version of The West Wing if not for The Sopranos."[1.

Pre- production[edit]Tim Hunter, the director of a half- dozen episodes from the show's first two seasons, called Mad Men a "very well- run show". He said: [1. 8]They have a lot of production meetings during pre- production.

The day the script comes in we all meet for a first page turn, and Matt starts telling us how he envisions it. Then there's a "tone" meeting a few days later where Matt tells us how he envisions it. And then there's a final full crew production meeting where Matt again tells us how he envisions it.. Filming and production design[edit]The pilot episode was shot at Silvercup Studios and various locations around New York City; subsequent episodes were filmed at Los Angeles Center Studios.[1. It is available in high definition for showing on AMC HD and on video- on- demand services available from various cable affiliates.[2. The writers, including Weiner, amassed volumes of research on the period in which Mad Men takes place so as to make most aspects of the series—including detailed set design, costume design, and props—historically accurate,[1. Each episode had a budget between US$2–2.

On the scenes featuring smoking, Weiner stated: "Doing this show without smoking would've been a joke. It would've been sanitary and it would've been phony."[1. Robert Morse was cast in the role of senior partner Bertram Cooper; Morse starred in two 1. A Guide for the Married Man (1. Weiner,[1. 2] and How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying (1. Morse recreated his role from the 1. Broadway play of the same name (and which was itself based on a satiric novel by a former executive at the now- defunct New York ad agency, Benton & Bowles, Inc.).[2.

Weiner collaborated with cinematographer Phil Abraham and production designers Robert Shaw (who worked on the pilot only) and Dan Bishop to develop a visual style that was "influenced more by cinema than television".[2. Alan Taylor, a veteran director of The Sopranos, directed the pilot and also helped establish the series' visual tone.[2. To convey an "air of mystery" around Don Draper, Taylor tended to shoot from behind him or would frame him partially obscured. Many scenes set at Sterling Cooper were shot lower- than- eyeline to incorporate the ceilings into the composition of frame; this reflects the photography, graphic design and architecture of the period. Alan felt that neither steadicam nor handheld camera work would be appropriate to the "visual grammar of that time, and that aesthetic didn’t mesh with [their] classic approach"—accordingly, the sets were designed to be practical for dolly work.[2. Finances[edit]According to a 2.

Miller Tabak + Company estimate published in Barron's, Lions Gate Entertainment received an estimated $2. AMC for each episode, a little less than the $2. In March 2. 01. 1, after negotiations between the network and the series' creator, AMC picked up Mad Men for a fifth season, which premiered on March 2. Weiner reportedly signed a $3. A couple of weeks later, a Marie Claire interview with January Jones was published, noting the limits to that financial success when it comes to the actors: "We don't get paid very much on the show and that’s well- documented.

On the other hand, when you do television you have a steady paycheck each week, so that's nice."[3. Miller Tabak analyst David Joyce wrote that sales from home video and i. Tunes could amount to $1.

That does not include the $7. Netflixstreaming video deal announced in April 2. Episode credit and title sequences[edit]The opening title sequence features credits superimposed over a graphic animation of a businessman falling from a height, surrounded by skyscrapers with reflections of period advertising posters and billboards, accompanied by a short edit of the instrumental "A Beautiful Mine" by RJD2. The businessman appears as a black- and- white silhouette. The titles, created by production house Imaginary Forces, pay homage to graphic designer Saul Bass's skyscraper- filled opening titles for Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest (1. Watch Nativity 3: Dude, Where`S My Donkey?! Streaming. Vertigo (1. 95. 8); Weiner has listed Hitchcock as a major influence on the visual style of the series.[1. David Carbonara composes the original score for the series.

Mad Men – Original Score Vol. January 1. 3, 2. 00. In a 2. 01. 0 issue of TV Guide, the show's opening title sequence ranked No. Watch Legally Blonde 2: Red, White &Amp; Blonde Online Free 2016. TV's top 1. 0 credits sequences, as selected by readers.[3. At the end of almost all episodes, the show either fades to black or smash cuts to black as period music, or a theme by series composer David Carbonara, plays during the ending credits; at least one episode ends with silence or ambient sounds.