Ptk - Studio shoot - build work shops

Build schedule -

As group A have their set up first there wasn't really much we could do until we could put ours up so we decided to make the most of the time we had to plan everything and do as many tests as we could to make sure everything runs smoothly on the limited time we have to put our set up.

After the camera workshop on the 13/11/14  we decided that the creative world needed to change, the green screen boxes were to complicated and if not done correctly would look tacky. The painted wall we originally wanted at the back made the room look more like a kids play room rather than a futuristic place so we decided to get rid of it and cover the wall in televisions. This way it would look like a control room like someone has been monitoring the creativity in the prison which we could do some cinematic shots with and show more lots of show reel on.

Me and josh tried to contact the local tip  to get a lot of old tvs we could stack, how ever this came to a dead end as they kept sending us round and round in circles

Kat looked on line for tvs how ever free cycle and gum tree had very little crts and flat screens were too expensive

Chloe looked around different recycling websites  and found a place willing to give us tvs how ever it was in london and we had no way to transport them

We decided that it was best to stop wasting time on this idea and just use the tvs we all own and ones we could get out from stores to build a stack of them in the middle of the creative room, this isnt as visually as interesting as it would be alot smaller and have less of an impact on the viewer  but is a alot safer as we do not have to worry so much that they might fall over or break the wall if we tried to attach it to them.

We decided it would be best to test this out before the shoot to make sure it would work, that way if it didnt we had time to change the idea to our back up plan.

As we couldnt use our set to test this out we decided to book out an extra studio to host a Pre vis in.

On the 14/11/14    we decided to go out and start buying props for the set like books for wall paper and vhs tapes.

19/11/14 - Pre vis

We stacked the tvs we had to get them to stand up safely this is the best way we could do it.

We then did a lighting test, how ever as we didnt have the lights we would be using on the day we could only do this roughly.

We decided we could film in the black screen curtains in g12  rather than painting the set black. But we would need to find something to put on the floor to turn it black too. We worked out we need on light behind the tvs to give a glow from between the cracks, all the tvs on to light up nick from the from and a soft light from behind so nick wasnt so silhouetted

20/11/14 - Testing the break out

Chloe had spent the past week working out who to make the whole in the wall look realistic, yet be easy to break out of.

She came up with florist bricks, covered in clay and painted red to look like realistic bricks.
She thought wall filler would be the best way to create a layer over the bricks the actor could crumble away and  hit down. How ever this took 24 hours to dry so we decided on styrofoam.

Charlie managed to find a roll of styrofoam in home base which was thin enough to fit in the wall and crumble away easily all this needed doing was painting grey.

How ever when it came to assembling the wall it was very hard to wallpaper as there wasnt a solid back to it.  We worked out we have  to glue some of the bricks to wall to keep a stable base then  cut a large sheet of card board the size of the whole and paint them black and glue this to the bricks glued to the wall.  This will give us a stable base to wall paper over we can cut holes in it for the light to get through and make it easy to smash down. on the front we will have a sheets of card board with a large whole in the middle, then a layer of styro foam stuck to them, then a layer of wallpaper over the top. these pre cut sheets can slide straight over the bricks and be stable enough to wallpaper the sheets of books over for the actor to rip down.

21/11/14- wallpapering the walls 

After some debate to weither we should start on the wall or if we do it and it cracks when we move it will we have to do it all again and wed just be wasting time we decided to wallpaper over the wall but leave a gap over the cracks so when we mov it if it bends we just have to wall paper over the cracks not do the whole wall again