This week my main job was to build the entire scene (including a bedroom workshop and a town) and to look develop all the assets to make sure they would be referenced in the scene without errors.
For this bedroom studio, I did a lot of reference works on Art Station and Pinterest. According to my script setting my character should be an artist, so his room should be stacked with all kinds of painting materials and various art books.
So I set up a set of electronic drawing boards and some painting reference models (a mannequin and a plaster head model) on the table, and I also set up a set of easels next to the table which can indicate the identity of the main character artist. In addition to that, more living details can be added in order to enrich the whole space. I added a lot more living ornaments, such as some stickers, through which the protagonist may want to remind himself to always keep smiling and other life chores. I also added some office supplies and a trash can full of garbage. All of these can suggest that my protagonist in daily life often study art and forget the time and so on.
Another small town scene, according to my initial description I looked for a lot of Gregory Crewdson’s work, he created a sense of atmosphere is exactly what I wanted, so I locked the camera in a street community, I want the protagonist standing in the middle of the road spotlight on him, surrounded by the eerie and quiet town environment.
So I looked for many neighborhood assets from the 80s and 90s (which included houses and cars on the road). I deliberately chose objects from the 80s and 90s because they represent the past, and people always selectively choose to remember the good and forget the painful, which I think has a strong sense of contrast.
These are the two main scenes in my film, and I have created separate folders for all the assets in them to look develop, which will ensure that I don’t make too many mistakes later in the operation.
Some whimsical ideas
Yes I was working on a scene and it occurred to me that I could add more surreal shots to enhance what I wanted to say about people being out of touch with their lives at work. So I decided to delete the previous shot of the bird flying over and use several hands to reach out from the main character’s chair and pull him down. In addition I might also do some pure fantasy scenes for the protagonist to walk in, such as a gorgeous world of only grasslands or let the protagonist fall in water all the time. In addition I want to rename the project Escape. That’s all 🙂