Setting up for our Shoot day

The day before our shoot we set up the different parts of our set in the studio with Dan, the set designer, and collected up all of our props into a bag ready to use the next day. We started off by painting the set panels black and then setting them up using wooden props and stage weights, we then attached the panels of corrugated plastic to the black panels so we had three plastic panels with two black set panels. After we had prepared the plastic and panel set we set up the sofa with a fur rug cover. I felt confident and ready, the next morning, about our set and shot list but was a little bit nervous about the reliability of the cast and whether they would show up on time, whether they would do what we told them etc. We were well prepared the next morning with all the costumes and props that we needed and the majority of the cast showing up on time, the two boys in the morning and the dancers in the afternoon, however only one male member of the dancers turned up so we had to work around this. By the morning we decided that the fur rug and the colour of the sofa didn’t work for the kind of scene we were trying to create so we covered it in a black sheet of plastic and stapled that around it to keep the sofa covered and fit in with the style of the scene our video was about. The studio looked like a blacked out club with the only points of contrast being the corrugated plastic strips which was exactly what we had planned. These pictures show how our set looked by the time we had set up every element.