Set Design Creation Blog Post

    As I mentioned in my previous blog post on our shooting process, we had filmed in two major locations, the park and my house. In order to accurately capture our story, we had to perfectly set up our settings in order to reflect the emotion felt in that scene.

    For our initial park scene, we had set up our pencil pouch and school supplies in an organized format. This was to reflect Asher's organized personality and how he had tried to reflect it in an area different to his house. This setup of equipment would eventually become a bit more disorganized due to Asher's confrontation with Austin, but still remained in its proper places overall. I believe that with these subtle factors, our film increased in quality and in continuity, not only mentioning Asher's obsession with organization when it is essential to the plot.

    The main area that needed focus was at my house. With this being Asher's main area and not an outdoor setting, we would have to heavily focus on the setting elements of the tracking sequence. We managed this through moving my original items on my desk and placing a few school supplies onto it. In this way, the area overall looked more professional and organized, which would reflect Asher's personality.

    However, as I mentioned in my previous blog post, because of Vanessa's observations, we agreed that after Asher enters the room and gets settled, there should be a dedicated series of closeups with Asher pulling out his school equipment. This would create substance for our opening that would not only act as a transition to the end of our project, but also help to set up a narrative that would be built up later in the story.

    Through the careful manipulation of the environments we were filming, the film looked higher in quality as a result, maintaining continuity as well as reoccurring themes. With this, we managed to achieve our main objectives with the project as well as make something that we are proud of because of our effort with it.