Set Maquettes and Testing
The original idea for the story was for it to be set in a residential area, with a row of houses as the back drop. So to begin with Elise and Bec took photographs in Bristol of the potential look for the houses and elements that could be translated into the set.
However, along with the story changes and the scene being re-thought, the set would now be based on a old style, 1950's Bristol high-street. So we did more research into 1950's post war Bristol and created another mood board to get the sense of what we were going for across. |
So after deciding on the setting of our film we then figured out that we needed to be working with two main aspects of the set. After discussing our starting point with Mary, she explained to us about using a forced perspective set to create depth in the scene and then we figured we would need a set for front on shots for the fruit stand and shop fronts. So we initially started working on the perspective set as this would be the most challenging out of the two different sets.
We began by making a very crude miniature maquette set out of cardboard in different lengths as seen in the photos above. We changed the lengths around to see which created the most successful sense of false perspective and then using this as our starting point we went on to look the different elements that needed to be included within the set.
Forced Perspective Shot
Shop Fronts and Fruit Stand Shots
We then went through the same process for the shop fronts and fruit stand set. This time we worked on a slightly larger scale, making the maquette out of paper and card. We used cut out scale sizes of Nigel and Mabel to help us with the scale and whether or not the size worked with the models. It was during this process that we had to problem solve with the set and make changes to some of our original ideas so that we'd be more able to create the set.
An original idea was the have an alley way where Nigel had his fruit stand, however this wasn't going to work as we would have to create another forced perspective area of the set which would make it too large for our shooting station and as it is set during the day we would not be able to trick the viewer by making the lighting dark. So the decision was made to change it from an alley way to a recess instead.
An original idea was the have an alley way where Nigel had his fruit stand, however this wasn't going to work as we would have to create another forced perspective area of the set which would make it too large for our shooting station and as it is set during the day we would not be able to trick the viewer by making the lighting dark. So the decision was made to change it from an alley way to a recess instead.
Once we were happy with our finalized maquette sets and that our scale and measurements were all correct it was time to go ahead with getting the real set made. It was from here that we were ready to have our base for the sets cut out of MDF wood. So we went to buy wood from the uni but this is where we ran into trouble. Unfortunately the woodwork area was not in use because of a new extractor fan being put in. But we were incredibly lucky that we then managed to get our sets laser cut.
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