Hey, check it out: I'm finally starting to build the set framework I planned back in November:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/inelegant/sets/72157604536830313/
I'll have fully half of the chunks built today, and the other half will get put in probably a couple/few weeks. The remarkable part of all this is that it looks like it might actually work, which is phenomenal.
Aside from the fact that I'm pretty happy with the way it's so far looking, I thought I'd pass along the photos in case it's useful to anyone else.
For sake of clarity:
The set framework is comprised of a series of 2' wide, 9' high segments, with a "wall" stretching from 4' - 9'. These segments are arrayed modularly depending on the need of the scene. My initial plan is to build 12 of them, plus a pair without backing (that can be windows or doorway segments). This number will let me have a variety of room sizes, as well as two rooms joined by a hallway or doorway, a closed-room of enough size to have puppeteer and camera operator, and a long-enough hallway (15 or more segments would work for a nice endless hallway) to have multiple twists and corners.
Each of these segments, when arranged, will have decorated set chunks clamped onto them, allowing the same piece of framework to be used as the backbone of every set that I'll want to use. Also, because I'll be able to make "long" hallways, with some careful editing I can make it look like I'm filming in a full-sized set, as though I've actually built an entire office-space (as this was originally conceived of for dotBoom), and am not filming in a 15x30 space.
Now, this may be the way everybody else does it, but it wasn't the first thing that occurred to me, and I'm pretty excited by the idea.
What do you think?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/inelegant/sets/72157604536830313/
I'll have fully half of the chunks built today, and the other half will get put in probably a couple/few weeks. The remarkable part of all this is that it looks like it might actually work, which is phenomenal.
Aside from the fact that I'm pretty happy with the way it's so far looking, I thought I'd pass along the photos in case it's useful to anyone else.
For sake of clarity:
The set framework is comprised of a series of 2' wide, 9' high segments, with a "wall" stretching from 4' - 9'. These segments are arrayed modularly depending on the need of the scene. My initial plan is to build 12 of them, plus a pair without backing (that can be windows or doorway segments). This number will let me have a variety of room sizes, as well as two rooms joined by a hallway or doorway, a closed-room of enough size to have puppeteer and camera operator, and a long-enough hallway (15 or more segments would work for a nice endless hallway) to have multiple twists and corners.
Each of these segments, when arranged, will have decorated set chunks clamped onto them, allowing the same piece of framework to be used as the backbone of every set that I'll want to use. Also, because I'll be able to make "long" hallways, with some careful editing I can make it look like I'm filming in a full-sized set, as though I've actually built an entire office-space (as this was originally conceived of for dotBoom), and am not filming in a 15x30 space.
Now, this may be the way everybody else does it, but it wasn't the first thing that occurred to me, and I'm pretty excited by the idea.
What do you think?