DRESSING THE SET

The day before our shoot we went into the studio and dressed the set. We had all of our props that we have bought from home and else where the imperial war museum blitz exhibition pack (http://www.iwmshop.org.uk/category/204/Facsimiles) and many more things that we show in our tracking shot, for example a type writer. Old teddies, old books, old food packaging, posters etc. this was all very important on our shoot day because we had a long tracking shot that relied on our props.

 

We managed to get a brick wall set that was meant to show an underground bunker. This during filming was easier to show with our fist shot of the set coming in on a Crain shot. We got hold of a desk and small bed as well as a shelf. To help portray to the audience the time in which our thriller sequence was set we made sure that the old letters, newspapers, and leaflets showed the era (1940,s blitz) however in the second half of our thriller sequence we needed to dress it as if a lot of time had past, we used a dust like substance that we dressed the set with as well as bursting open the porridge and food packaging and spreading the set with a mess, turning over chairs and ripping up posters as if a bomb hit the bunker, The mystery of the first half.

Our set dressing turned out very well, as we were very organised with our props and set it worked well on camera and I think that our organisation skills when it came to preparation for our shoot day was one of our strongest areas.