Fashion: Day 1: Construction & Decor

 The following points are the tasks the group managed to finish in the first day of our set build:

1. Put carpetting down- in rolls which made it easier to manoeuvre & lay down.
2. Constructed the walls- used both constructed and manually constructed stands to build walls, screwing flats together after leveling them to enable us to accurately wallpaper the walls.
3. We firstly attached the skirting, pannelling and dado railing to the walls.

4. Then we attached the wallpaper which we were very fortunate to have Martin's friend Murray available to help us with.
5. Meanwhile the space light was put up on the goal posts to give us an idea of the overall lighting and atmosphere created by the combination of our decor, props and lighting.

6. Martin & Murray then hinged the door to another flat which was attached on the end of the right wall to create a small corner behind the open door. A frame was also attached above the door to create the look of a surrounding wall which was edged by cream painted architrave.

7. Sacha and I then continued to attached the door handles and number '65'on the front. 
8. Sacha and I then began to move the props in to the set joined by others later. By using the hasselblad in the correct position to capture images we position the props in the right places. 
9. By using the live view in the programme phocus, we worked out where the painting should be positioned and continued to hang it.

10. After constructing all of our set we finally created a frame around our window using MDF to attach our brick wallpaper to, to create the look of an outer wall and obscuring the view around the window frame.

Day 1 Final Image

We also went to Wickes to buy perspex for our window which we took down to lower 4th to be cut to the correct size of 980 x 710mm to fit our window frame. 
We felt today was very successful and went a lot more smoothly than I imagined and planned to due unforseen issues; however we didn't have many problems at all throughout the day and if any they were easily solved. I also feel we are much further ahead than we thought we would be as the constructing of walls and decor was planned for today and other decor and props tomorrow; however due to quick construction we will now be experimenting with the lighting tomorrow.

Firstly to decide on the correct level of light being produced by the space light over the whole scene and then other lights such as the hall light and specific lights to highlight areas of the scene such as the figures and the desk.

I would also like to eliminate any reflections we do not want in our set particularly in the glass of the picture, the side table mirror,the TV screen and the window, which I imagine we will reduce through use of angles and dark surfaces. If we have time I would like to experiment with the idea of rain drops on the perspex which although we have already look into had not conclusively decided against or for it. I feel due to the shallow depth of field the use of rain would create an interesting texture and add pathetic fallacy to our image as we want to promote a dramatic, tense scene.