Set Building. Finishing Touches

7/03/13
In todays session we were tasked with completing our set. At the moment the flats were up and made secure and they were all painted.
Once we arrived our tutor gave us a brief on what had to be completed next (or what she wanted to see happen with the set) as a group we discussed roughly what had to be completed and what we wanted to achieve by the end of the day. We then set off to complete the objectives.

A group of 4 decided to fix the picture frames and add un-canny pictures in to them. Some people cut them to size, others made sure the frames were fixed and safe. Two members of the group went off to print more images.

In the other corner of the room two members were creating a hand and arm for the first part of the sequence when the character scratches his arm and out comes a fly.

Two members of the group were adding curtains in the set and stapling them down. These members also hung the pictures and made sure they were straight.

I decided to assign myself as 'Prop Director', I wanted to find out what we had to use and if they were

suitable to go with the genre of our project. I picked out various items such as stuffed animals, old wooden furniture, dolls and candle holders. Some of these items were broken so I fixed them back together with the glue gun.  Other items I decided not to use as I thought they would look quite silly and I didn't want the set to be too cluttered to divert attention.
Among the props was a mannequin of a child, the mannequin had no head so I decided to be creative and use one of the stuffed animals heads as a replacement, I also gave it a dress to make it have character. I then did the same to an old doll, dressing it and adding fur to make it look creepy.

In the TV series Lost (Abrams. J J, 2004) in the end episodes a character starts to go crazy with the loss of her child, as a replacement she creates an 'animal baby' out of dead animal skin, loose material and leaves.  Even though we aren't paying particular homage to the props I thought these items would give a bit of freakiness to the main character. Why does this person have these things? Why did they create them? are they a replica of someone? did they create them?.






Aside from the props I also added finishing touches to the set, such as painting areas that were missed and adding a skirting board so the set didn't look sloppy.    I also cut and straightened out a piece of Lino to act as a half around the fireplace.

Todays session was much more coordinated and we managed to get a remarkable amount of work completed. Compared to last weeks set building session this session we all talked as a group and understood what had to be done. This benefited us and we set out to do them without one person taking over all the jobs. I think this is the reason we have completed so much and we are all happy with the outcome.















(Minus the Fireplace)