Set Design

Today, we had a meeting with Scott, The set designer. We proposed our plans to him and showed him our set design drawings for him to tell us weather our ideas are possible to create, as well as getting some advice as to how we could make our designs better, and to here his opinions on our plans.

First we showed Scott the drawings we produced of the overall view of the dolls house (above) Which we created as it clearly shows us what the layout of the house looks like and what rooms are where During this meeting Scott suggested that instead of filming the band in the school basement/ hallway (that we originally intended) it would be better if we shot it in the studio and created a set for it. This is because the shape of the basement in my dolls house is quite wide whilst the corridor we were thinking of is very long and thin. Filming in the studio also allows us to control the lighting much easier.

The set designer also suggested that we put the sets of two rooms next to each other in the studio enable us to achieve the right perspective of a dolls house. as well as making it more practical and convenient as our plans are to film the actors in one room and then pan across horizontally to a different situation in another room. We are planning on filming in a similar style to one of the music videos created by Hurtwood last year called Anti love song, in this video they also show panning from one room to the next.



Scott  also suggested that we put both rooms on stilts so that we can pan downwards from the bathroom to the basement for the band performance.

Scott also suggested that we use dark lighting in the room, in order to juxtapose our idea or "the perfect world" to create a more moody almost gothic atmosphere, As it will make our finished product of the dolls house look more realistic, as well as linking with the household objects turning into cardboard and the couple fighting