Set Design Creation

 Week 5! 

Last discussion for this week will be the creation of the sets and how we stayed within a budget for filming, while still being creative!

Goals/Budget:

With our expertise being amateur and budget on tight due to financial circumstances, my group and thought of ways to stay innovative without breaking the bank. For equipment luckily our team member Emma had camera already available for filming and tripod. Of course with our own cellular devices gave us access to film for behind the scenes and photography. For the Mise en Scene elements is where the money was allocated towards. Myself along with Emma combined our finances together to order a mental asylum gown, three backdrops, and props for officer costumer. Totaling up to around $100.00. Within staying our budget our goal was to use as many resources available in our location and think outside of the box to think create our set into life. 

Setting up and Experimenting:

We took one day to plan and set up our location. Our initial plan was to use Emma's garage since it had the ideal space and lightning we needed. Due to circumstances with backdrops not being able to stay up we choose to set up our main scene in Emma's studio. Ultimately choosing this location worked in our favor as we were able to still add the same effect with lightning and prison scene. So now with a steady wall for our background and lightning we needed to create that bars element to our prison cell. We used a dog cage and elevated it with a plain table to capture within filming behind the table that our character Avery would be captured "behind bars". 

This concept wasn't my own but such a creative and innovative touch to our project. We added an extra detail such as a bed, which we used a small day bed. For our following scenes did not require the same changes. For example our integration scene require table recycled from the prison scene and two bar stool tables. For our Officer Garcia's office scene we kept the same furniture and details in Emma's Dad's personal office space. The additional detail we added was the same table and bars for a special effect of Avery looking within Officer Garcia's office. Overall are innovation and teamwork definitely paid off and for our film and was fun and money saving process we used to create our scenes.