Week 4

The weekend before the fourth week into this unit Claire gave me helpful advice on the windows I was having trouble with and from this I was able to identify them as ‘dormer windows’ that are commonly built to project light into attics and sits vertically on a sloped roof. I had to observe a number of flat roof dormer references to understand where they would cave outwards in particular to this set.

I did however initially make the error of going back in and trying to reference the set construction images that had no indication of where the dormers sat on the incline of the roof and only confused me.

the flat roof dormer windows

the interiors of the depth of the ledge

trying to draw over the set build

For the next three days I worked my way around my new technical drawings for the final model, after making adjustments to the floor plan I drew digitally and increasing the heights of the roof between the window and ceiling and the four diagonal walls which needed to go up by another fifty millimetres in width to make room for where the set dressing elements such as the study table and corner sofa, would be placed in the film. After drawing up my floor plan on the updated measurements I found that it was now far more accurate to the bedroom built on set as it allowed for more movement in the space for the actors to interact with.

The complete finished technical drawing

After making my floor plans I worked my way around to the elevations and increased the width of the long window adjacent to the bed and found that this worked better as in the rough model it was far too narrow and it needed to be wider excluding the width of the frame and the space from the floor.

the new floor plan

small elevations for the windows and attic roof

The elevations that took me longer than I anticipated were the dormer windows as I drew them as a slant directly over the roof itself instead of realising they were meant to sit vertical upright at an angle and ended up spending time measuring the size of the window to get my ledge and side elevations.

process of sticking the main door

the final white card model before changing the elevations for the windows

After finishing up my technical drawings I began model making immediately as I wanted to spend my last week focusing on any iterations to the model and working on Sketchup so having the model assembled was priority by the weekend. I remembered the clear instruction of not sticking my walls down since I’ll need to photograph my model from all sides and compare them to the film stills which is why I only stuck the 550 and 900 mm walls down and the main one that contained the entrance to the attic with the sloped roof. I went ahead and secured the rest with masking tape to photograph them for the next week’s formative presentation before the deadline.

the floor plan on Sketchup

removing the faces for the windows

I began modelling on Sketchup over the weekend and kept it fairly simple by following the measurements on my floor plan and only lifting the surface of all my walls to get the outline of my bedroom and attic space ready to present images of.