Tuesday 29th March with Henry Jones

The lesson with Henry Jones was very informative and was really useful to us as a group.

He told us when designing to keep close to the text and to use it to create an image in your mind and work from that to interpret it into a set. The picture below is our very first drawing of the layout of our sets. After some discussion I came up with this which seemed to fit the bill.

He told us that light was a really important part of a set and that correctly lighting it would bring it to life. He mentioned the art of chiaroscuro, which i have blogged about below. Lighting can create a three dimensional look very easily to even a flat surface. By lighting it at a 90 degree angle you can pick up the slightest surface textures and bring them into relief.

He mentioned the carpets and helped us a lot in thinking about what we should be incorporating into the set.

He touched apon forced perspective, as we have made the room seem to shrink smaller at one end by changing the measurements.

He also mentioned the Marie Celeste, a ghost ship which was found completely empty but still as though it was still being used. The feeling of as if you have just walked into a room that someone else has just left. This would be a good idea to incorporate into our set, if we could find a way of doing so. By having burning candles and food of some sort on the table with cutlery and a tea set could help.

• When scaling film sets you always worked to a 1':1'' scale.
• A piece of furniture that is used within the set including doors or working loos is called a Practical piece
• A non-Practical piece within the set is anything which is not used. A chair could be in there for the look but not actually able to take the weight of a person.

I got some ideas from Henry for my chair design. I have decided to use foam to create a dent in the fathers chair and I have also decided that i am going to build Mrs Samsas chair and buy Mr Samsa's chair and adapt it accordingly.

We also made a small scale version of our set out of foam board. Working to the scale mentioned previously.