Cambridge Portfolio Week 5 3/13, Set Design

Hello, welcome to week 5 of my Cambridge portfolio project. I have previously finished my storyboard and have started production. I started with the first scene, in which the character wakes up in an unknown place. This is probably the hardest set to build because I needed to deliberately trash the room. Here are some examples of the process for creating my set.

This is how the room initially looked like.

 

This is the finished product.

 

Original concept for reference

I took apart the couch and threw the pillows around. Then, I gently put down the chairs but positioned them to look like they were thrown.

 

 I got some foam rods that were lying around and strewed them around.

 

I gingerly put down my computer monitor and leave the mouse and keyboard hanging off the table.

 

 

I got a nearby plastic plant and dropped it near the corner.

 

After looking farther away, these parts were not visible due to the plant and you could see an empty spot in the corner, so I pushed them a bit farther away.

For the more delicate parts of the set or things that could damage the floor, such as the computer, I unfortunately decided to play it safe and just put it down gently. I could understand a bigger company probably being more reckless because they have a budget or even having the resources to build their own broken monitor prop, but I decided to just to keep it simple, as it didn't really damage the fidelity of the set anyways. Lighting was also a bit of a problem since the daylight was getting darker, but I opted to let editing to do some of the lighting work; the only light I needed was a clear light source and enough to be able to see the character. This is the set that I'll be doing my filming on, which I will post soon once I am finished filming.