Week 2
- Alisha Gupta
- Oct 20, 2022
- 2 min read
That morning we completed our technical drawings on the hallway, and I went over fixing my two doorways that I had mistakenly opened inwards when they were meant to face the other way around. That afternoon I proceeded to gather references for my film set to work out a rough floor plan for Inga’s bedroom. I had an idea of the placement of the key objects in the space and worked my way around sketching the layout of the three windows and door from that, with the bed being the central point, and kept in mind that I’ll be making a miniature of it from white card to give better perspective to viewers of the scene.
I did however, find the curved walls that were very much rounded edges seen in the behind-the-scenes images a bit tricky to work around in my plans. But Claire gave me helpful advice to keep in mind the curves were only visible on plan at the edges and not in elevation where they appeared flat straight on. It was a bit of an optical illusion to get around, since the width of the wall panelling followed that curve from the floor.
The following day we were given a briefing on model making, which was very useful to get a clear understanding of this process as a communicative tool to the crew on set, especially towards the directors and actors so they know how much space they exactly have to work with on camera. The tools needed were fairly simple, with the most important being a scalpel with a 10A surgical blade that is fairly sharp since its used by medical and meant we needed to be really careful while cutting through fine detailing such as a window pane.
I was a bit nervous, admittedly, since I only had experience with a larger Stanley blade or standard paper cutters that had the added advantage of a gripped handle because of this I worked slower than the others on a practice model and had a hard time cutting the tiny window panes.
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