Decorating Set

I painted the whole of my set because it was made from MDF board so it needed colour to disguise the wood look it had. Painting the outside walls and the inside walls were pretty straight forward as they were just one colour, and needed no added paint detail because it would have looked odd and flat. However it was hard trying to paint neatly along the edges because if I messed up or painted the wrong area I would have to repaint it again and also they needed multiple coats to hide the texture of the MDF board which was very time consuming.

I didn't want the shop floor to be a plain colour as it could have made the whole room look boring so I sketched out checker board style markings and filled them in with multiple layers of paint. This was the most difficult part of painting as it had to be very neat with no mistakes so it would look as consecutive as possible.

After painting around my set I made some bricks for the edges out of Sculpey so it wouldn't look too flat or empty, and I added the same moss for the pavements into the cracks between them so that they wouldn't look plain.

For the window I used acetate to simulate glass because I needed it to look as good as possible as there is a scene looking through it. As the window area looked a bit empty I added a window frame using card and painted over the edges where I had cut to hide the white of the card. I wanted to make a windowsill too for it but it ended up looking to flat and odd and would have also been in the way of my character so I removed it and left it without. I'm very happy with how it turned out as the acetate creates a reflection of Sam as he walks past and simulates glass well it also doesn't cloud or ruin the scene its used in when filming through it, which is something I was nervous about happening.

I used Sculpey to create a drain pipe for the middle of the street as I felt the wall looked too bare just been painted, at the bottom of the drain pipe I left a gap in the cobbles and filled it with moss to give the effect that it had been there a while. I used cardboard that i had found outside for the homeless man's seat as it was already weathered, I also left plasticine on it for a few days to leave grease marks on it.