Major Final Project 4

Concept art can be found here https://www.pinterest.ie/deedee202009/ 

and in folder.

Props are on the table 

Storyboard can be found in folder

Mood board:

Example shorts: 

Colours: Primary Colour scheme as specified by the director 

Theme: Understanding one another 

Emotions: Anxiety and joy 

Costume: A school PE uniform. Navey blue and maroon. I asked the child actor to bring his own uniform, as it would naturally aged. 

Modern Young boy, age ten, navy blue and maroon, no aging of the costume required, I asked the child actor to bring his own school PE uniform as it would have been naturally aged. 

Location

              

               Measurements – 3370mm x 2210mm

               Problems: Tight space to work with, try to make the room not look like a student accommodation. Tight hall outside for the crew to squeezes through. Bathroom was right beside the room. I fed the actors, the crew fed themselves.   

               Map:

Budget

          120 euro, most of the budget went to obtaining a helium tank for the balloons, the rest went to getting school supplies for the boy's room, the balloons and colour coordinating pieces of household items for the set.

Synopsis:Hard copy available in folder 

 Production Design: Final Year Film

Up, Up and Away- Director Elena Feeney Belluschi

My experience on the film was a fifty fifty slit of organisation and chaos. I had read the script, organised costumes for the leads, the colour pallet of primary colours, organised every balloon that was need, the helium and colour of the helium can etc. a week prior the paintings on the walls etc. But because we were to shoot in the middle of March but due to the child actor pulling out it was pushed a week forward. But then my Grandad was dying so for the first day of shooting, I was not present as the lead production designer and the secondary production designer was not their either. Plus I could not contact anyone due to hospital regulations with phones and by the time I would get home, it was too late for me to call, text or email.

But the following week, I had draw out plans, went home to Mayo to get a literal suitcase full of props for the little boy’s bedroom, and painted, constructed and dressed up a headboard for the bed. The boy’s room was to use the same colour pallet with an animal theme. This time I was much more prepared.

On set, for the first location, which was a school, I dressed the set with supplies and items that were available at the school as per the directors’ request. I did the makeup of the female actor, to be subtle as to contrast with the bright primary colours of the primary school.

I had dressed the boy’s room the previous night. Everything had to be dressed from the top down. The bed, the sheets, curtains I had to bring in, desk, toys, books, the colour coded copy books etc. Only one major issue occurred on set. The sheets that were used for the notes that were attached to the balloons were smaller and they needed a replica. I was able to find an A4 sheet and trimmed it down to the size of the copy book and shaped its edges and cut off extra bits. The director was delighted.

After the shoot, in the edit suite, the director asked me to go some drawings for the credits. So, I used stills of the actors as reference so we could continue the story after the film was finished, in the credits. I sketched them out originally and scanned them in and digitally painted them with my Wacom.

Overall, bar the time where I didn’t have control over the set due to circumstances out of my control, I had an enjoyable experience on set. I had worked with this director and most of the crew many times before, so it was a nice work environment. If I were to do anything differently, I would want to have a third assistant on call for the set just to cover all my bases and forward on my plans for the set.