Week 3
- Alisha Gupta
- Oct 20, 2022
- 4 min read
Updated: Oct 20, 2022
Before I went in for this week I worked over the weekend to figure out the measurements of my space since I had to start on my plan and elevations as soon as possible. Since this was a space I couldn’t physically go into and survey, I made sure to compile a number of screenshots from every scene the actors were in this room and this proved as a useful tool to figure out the height and width of the space. Bu observing scenes with Jojo standing by the door frame, I was able to deconstruct the distance from the door to the corner wall and that to the bed. Since the actor who portrayed him was only 1350 in mm and conveniently the same width as the double bed, I duplicated him in photoshop to get the rough length of the whole room.
With a wide angle shot of the scene with Elsa and Jojo in the room, I was able to get an idea of the height of the door and frame and the space between that to the ceiling. The window facing the bed on the opposite wall was wider in comparison to the dormer windows on the slanted roof, but left enough space in the corner for the dresser and changing screen beside it. I calculated estimate widths for the four supposedly curved panels that stood on each corner up to 500 mm. The method I used to draw over the screenshots was very useful to get all the information directly over the source by working on Procreate.
To work out the heights of the dormer windows I observed screenshots of the actor Thomasin McKenzie and found she came up to exactly the height of the inner curtain lining and was able to assess a midpoint and work out the panes from there including the width and length of the repeated wall panels and the width of the thick wooden frames on every wall.
To physically check these measurements, I used my 5 meter measuring tape and basically went whipping it around my room and assessing the width of my wardrobe and frame, the distance of it from my bed and comparing these to the film set. For the length and width of the room I placed the tape on my hallway floor from where my front door closed all the way down to the back wall of my room, and noted a rough estimate. By doing this I had a clear understanding of the kind of space left for the actors to work with and set dressers to fill up.
The first back in studio was hectic to stay the least hectic since we had to all have our rough white card models ready for our presentation the next day itself and I had to put my plans down on paper. I immediately started drawing out the floor plan after correcting a few from my previous one I did the night before because when I added up the space between the wall panels on the opposite wall with the window from the one with the bed they were different sizes and I realized it was because of the space between the wall and where the bed stood in the middle. After this process I dived into my technical drawing that I was able to work around quickly thanks to the previous hallway task that made me ease into using a scale ruler. The elevations took a bit more time since I included the width of each side of the frame on the wall panels, which were in 1:25 scale only about a 100 mm and that meant a repetitive action of drawing 16 lines for each of the four 500 mm walls. The added detailing slowed me down, but it proved very useful, deconstructing what was now needed to build over this.
I didn’t have enough time to properly work around the dormer windows since those needed additional depth as they caved outwards and that meant I needed to work them out on a plan first, then figure out the placement of them against the slanted roof.
I left my two doors open, which included the one for the attic since these were working doors on set, and also helped me take good photographs of the model later that evening when I completed it and for the wall I didn’t stick in I chose the one facing the attic with the main door to get a view of my model looking in and placed my camera inside it after I temporarily taped the wall back in to get that side of the room in.
Thankfully my presentation went really well and came across thorough to everyone in terms of showing my creative process and the way I did this was by providing side by side comparisons to the screenshots I was working beside the part of the set it is based on. During my presentation I pointed out a few errors I had to fix which included the slant of the roof on my attic that was meant to be held higher by a brick wall before sloping and the heights of my walls needed adjustments to match the remaining elevations including working around the space between the bed and the adjacent wall.
The next day we had a presentation a bit about the history of Hollywood and where film itself originated. It was important to understand where the medium dated back and what audiences responded to well even though it was not directly related to our course, nonetheless it was an interesting subject that I definitely would like to explore further by watching the films mentioned from previous generations that have withstood the test of time.
Following this my work from the previous assignment on Art Deco was reviewed. I got good feedback on the fact my drawing lacked perspective and that I needed to fix that in certain elements on the walls and furniture, and other than that my art style worked well.
The following thursday and friday I spent time researching into the windows and from the feedback I received on my presentation, I was able to follow up with more helpful advice on the structure of these windows in elevation, where the placement of them in the walls was clearly communicated by the fact they were 'dormer windows' that sat above the slant of the attic by avoiding referencing the construction of the set which Claire pointed out could just get me more confused.
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