Set Building Week 1

During the first set building session we had the chance to get the walls up, clamped together and hopefully all wallpapered. We had to use 3 walls and one of them had a piece cut out of it big enough to act as a window which is necessary to our film. To allow more space for us to move the camera around we clamped two wall together at a 90 degree angle and the third wall at a 45 degree angle so that it wan't too boxed off but still will look like the inside of a shed or house. In the 3 hour session we had to get these things done, the part that took up the most time was ripping/scraping as much of the previous wallpaper off the walls. To save time we worked as a team and each of us has a wall between two of us, then when one wall was finished, myself, Billy and Ryan started on the wallpaper while the rest continued with there walls. The wallpapering was more difficult than first expected because you need to watch the consistency of the paste, otherwise it will leave lumps on the wallpaper which is what happened to us on our first sheet. However the process was simple once we got the hang of it. In this session we managed to get all walls stripped of wallpaper (as much as was possible without a steamer) and half of the whole set wallpapered. 

On Thursday, myself, Hannah, Billy and Ryan booked out the key to the studio to continue with the set so that the walls will be dry in time for set dressing the following week. Hannah and I began messily painting the walls that were already wallpapered a brown colour. We want it to be messy instead of perfectly because we believe that if there were a wooden shack in the middle of the forest it wouldn't be too neat inside, and because we can't fully replicate that we decided on the brown paint, with sticks scattered over the top of it. While we were doing this Billy and Ryan continued with the rest of the wallpapering.

Yesterday myself and Hannah went back into the studio to paint the rest of the walls which we couldn't do on Thursday as we needed the wallpaper to dry, and begin to stick on sticks and twigs. After I finished painting the rest of the walls I began helping Hannah with the sticks as they are taking a lot longer than we thought to get done. We know that this is because we bought pva glue to use which wasn't doing a good job at keeping the sticks on the wall, which resulted in the two of us sitting there for a few hours and only finishing a row of sticks as we had to keep holding them to the wall ourselves. We decided the best thing to do was leave it until Monday and email Susannah to ask if there is anything stronger we could use.