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Monday, February 8, 2010

Planning and Designing a Set

The first thing that you need to know when designing a set is that what you are designing is going to appear on screen and so the look of it is vital.

  • When starting to make the set you need to keep ideas loose and makes sure you don't stick to one idea, keep you ideas loose.
  • You also need to consider the tonal pallet. This is the over all color of the show for example sepia, aqua.....
  • You may also want to consider the thought of a Visual Motif or a logo. This usually makes the audience feel something, for example the Nike logo or Adidas.
  • You almost definitely want a back drop for you show as this will give the camera something to focus on. You will need to develop your idea of the backdrop to match recording colours.
  • The next stage is the lock down, by lock down i mean that the idea cannot be changed and that this is the final idea.
  • Getting action props to be part of the show. The dressing of the show to get all props ready
  • The final build is getting the whole show together.
Below are some pictures of our set which we made:

This was the main piece of our set, this is situated just below the table and shows what the show is about and the name of the show. This was a team effort and as you can see it has turned out rather well.


This is a shot of our right hand side flats. Again as you can see we have stuck to the theme of blue as this shows up on camera really well and we have also used darker colours as lighter colours when a tungsten light is shined onto will make the colour very bright.


We choose the night time scene because we could get a better grade of colour plus we also choose it because it suited are audience which in this case is teenagers. As you can see the bottoms of the flats are just black and this is because these are not going to be in shot when we record the show.


This is our final set piece which has dark colours which mean it will be picked up on light easily. We also decided to be a bit different from the other group and have a trapezium shaped table as this made the contestants a bit more close togther.

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