Set designs

Today, myself and my group met with a set designer called Scott who was brought in from outside of school. The aim was to pitch our set ideas to him and to help us do this we sketched out what the settings of the rooms were going to look like. The picture above shows the dolly house from outside of it and this allows us to see the layers of the house and the rooms which are next to eachother.

During the meeting we discussed how it would be better if we shot, the band performance scene in the studio instead of in the basement, this would make it easier to increase or decrease the lighting, and also in the basement it is a long corridor and if we need to film the scene by angling the camera to allow the walls to be in the correct place to make it look like it is part of the dolly house.

The set designer also discussed how to make sure we get the perspective of the dolls house, we would have 2 sets next to each other. This would then allow us to easily film our transitions to the next room through the pans across the walls horizontally, however, when banning downwards through the fall into the 'basement' we would have to raise up the floor onto stilts and then therefore this would make it easier for the panning downwards to take place.

We also decided that the rooms would have a dark feel to them and this conveys a moody feeling, which would contrast with the perfect dolls house, but would link with the fighting of the couple and the furniture turning into cardboard.