Influences
Lucy wanted to create a timeless kind of feel to the film, a space that you couldn't place the location or time setting. This was to demonstrate how addiction is something that happens to any one at any time. To do this i decided to mix match items for serval different time periods so it wasn't distinctive where it was set.
my main influences for the cafe itself was the 1970s, i choose the 1970s as there cafes look quite grungy and run down and minimal which would heighten the feeling meant to be created in the film. I wanted it to be grungy as it brings out more of jarvis character as he wouldnt choose somewhere nice to eat
The bold patterns and run down furniture seen in 1970s cafes/ homes fit the mood of the film well.
For jarvis costume as his character is a little bit scetchy, run down and worn out but he was still a nice guy at heart i wanted to base him on 1980s /90s skin heads. as jarvis needed to look smart like he had been at work but also as he was un reliable the fred pery shirt with braces and a bomber jaket seemed to fit well. The shows he put a shirt on to try look smart but didnt really follow through with the rest. The skin heads attitude and characteristics also suit his character.
How ever due to budget and clashing of pattens with the cafe i dedided to mornernism him a little bit, this also meant people could still relate to him and not jsut see him as a scruffy person.
There for jarvis is still wearing a bomber jacket but with chinos and a white shirt instead.
Pete had to contrast jarvis, he needed to be serious, smart and traditional therefor when coming up with plans i wanted him to be in a 1950s tweed suit. This would show he had all the serious traditional mannerisms that were around in the 1950s but lost in current culture.
I wanted pete to wear navy as navy is a darker cooler colour and shows him as strict person
How ever again due to buget and time frame to buy a suit i was left to just get one deviverd from asda, it still shows that pete is contrasting to jarvis.... but not as much as if it was 50s.
- Carrying the blue symbolism associated with the darker shades of blue, navy conveys importance, confidence, power, and authority as well as intelligence, stability, unity, and conservatism. Like black, it carries a sense of elegance, sophistication. It's associated with police and military.
like pete debbie is meant to be a strong convident character contrasting jarvis there for i also placed her in navy. i wanted debbie to be in a 1950s lace tea dress. All thought once these dresses symbolised dainty women they have now been taken on my the rock and roll subculture and wore be rebellious characters. Teamed with a leather jaket this would sympolis debbies power and rebelious nature.... how ever like the running theme of this project we didnt have the money or time for that so i got one as similar as ai could from asos.
for debbies make up i wanted to keep it quite natural, she is meant to be wild and in your face but going ott with make up with the way she acts the character would be too over dramatic and powerfull.
Ideas
after talking through the colour scheme with shaid and sending ideas and concepts over to him and lucy i mostly just got on with creating the idea myself.
( images of planning ideas with group )
details i went into
I went into LOTS of detail when it came to planning the props, which most of it in the end went un notice of not filmed.
As the cafe was themed in a train station as an inside joke from our class i made the waitress out fits/ menues/ photoframes everything all center around this.
Over all i spent ALOT of time paying stupid attention to detail of the props most of which didnt end up being filmed :(
( images of planning ideas with group )
I tried to go into as much detail as i could for the production design as that is allways the thing that grabs my attention the most when wtaching film as i just find the who concept of who little things like the colour of the clothes can influence and change a characters meaning. I have always been really interested in production design but never had the opportunity to do it.
For the lay out of the room itself i drew up several detailed floor plans, for every kind of budget we might have, i then created mood boards and description and measurement plans which were given to shahid to draw into nicer concept art.
details i went into
I went into LOTS of detail when it came to planning the props, which most of it in the end went un notice of not filmed.
As the cafe was themed in a train station as an inside joke from our class i made the waitress out fits/ menues/ photoframes everything all center around this.
Even little things like the rubber band ball on petes desk matched the theme as all the elastic bands were blue and yellow .
I HAND MADE ALL THE CHAIRS!! I litterally spent days re covering and painting the colours of the chairs so they fit with the theme!!!
I think the most detail and attention i paid was to the drugs themself which we do not have a shot of in the end.
As jarvis is an abused of drugs not jsut recrational i gave him a tin of a veriety of drugs. In there i made a little bag of fake cocaine, had a few random pills and some fake MDMA bombs.
The main detail to the drugs though was the DEBBIE drug. I decided that this drugs should be a hilusicinigenic based drug to get the effect we wanted on the wall. So i made the drugs myself out of sugar paper so the looked like a tab of lsd. On them i got printed the words d-eb31e... this was choosen as the name, as reaserch chemicals are normally printed on to the pills them so we made our own fake drug that vaugly looked like the name debbie. I printed it on to the drug themselfs so a shot could be seen against the other recognisable drugs and people would go OH LOOK HES TAKE A DRUG, ITS NAMED DEBBIE SHE IS THE DRUG NO WAY. Rathen than have to be told in the diolouge.
Managing lots of props
As we had alot of props and costumes, everything was stored at my house. I labed and took photographs of what all the props looked like so they could be easily found by other people and loged them into a inventory, on set i kept everything in its on section so it could be easily found.
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