Laura Payne
Yesterday I put together the Special’s board for the pub set, it will be hung on a wallpapered ‘brick effect’ flat. I just made it from a scrap piece of MDF and some blackboard paint and chalk paint. Click HERE to view the finished prop.
Below you can see the prop in the finished pub set; ‘The Royal Oak’. The brick wallpaper looks very realistic on film with dim lighting.
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This week I completely finished the bookshop set ready for the film shoot in the TV studio. I’m so pleased with it! We decided to put the lamp and a bookcase in the foreground so we could get some interesting camera shots with the Jib camera. The layout of the flats has changed a little bit but not drastically, we now no longer have a gap where actors walk in as an entrance. Also in these pictures you’ll see that the lighting in the studio has been adjusted to make the bookshop look a little more realistic. It’s just wonderful to look at something that you’ve made entirely from scratch, all that D.I.Y!! The final cost came to around £300 which payed for wood for the flats, wallpaper, shelves and buying all the props in the set. A few bargains included; 60 children’s books from the 1970’s for £5 in a car boot sale. And another gem in the car boot sale was an antique self standing lamp (still works!) with lampshade and light bulb included for £20.
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Here is the bookshop set all put together in the TV rehearsal, we used this time to block through with the actors and block through with the different camera shots.
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We assembled and put up 10 bookshelves onto the flats, it was a mundane and boring job but after a few hours it was done! And once the blackboard and notice board was up things were starting to come together very nicely, ready for next weeks filming shoot 🙂
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As you can see we’ve started wallpapering the flats – first with a plain underlay and then the wood effect and detailed wallpaper over the top. Afterwards I thought it would be a great idea to coffee stain the wallpaper to make the Bookshop look older. I did this because the wallpaper looked too new as it had just been purchased from the shop.
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For this I simply got some scrap MDF left over from making the flats and then painted it with blackboard paint and started writing on it with liquid chalk. This will soon be attached to one of the bookshop flats.
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Here are some photos of me and the Set Team making our 8feet x 8 feet flats for the Set for our TV programme. £200 worth of MDF, plywood and screws, many hours of work with the screwdriver later we finished four 8×8 double sided MDF paneled flats.
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Set Model
Here is a VERY basic set model that I made out of bits and bobs, just so I could visualise exactly how I wanted the set to look and so I could show the rest of the team so that they don’t have to rely on my drawings too much.
Working Design – Basic
This drawing is a very basic outline drawing of how much wooden panelling I’d like to use on the flats. It also gives an idea of basic furniture needed without all the small props so that I know the essential items that I need. I’m extremely pleased with this design and hopefully the team and I will be creating this particular set design in Semester B.
Final Design – Detailed
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Here I have re-drawn the design but in a less technical and more artistic way to demonstrate how the set will be filled with different props. The set will come to life with the use of plentiful amounts of colourful old books. Ive also included props such as the large lamp which will be used to give the set a feel of 3D space that will be good for the cameras to work around. Ive also changed the arrangement of the flats in order to create a SNUG and authentic bookshop, but at the same time creating an open space that the actors can move around in freely.