Building Week!
This week I spent at the ECA in the TV Studio with Jalila, my fellow set design assistant, and Roisin, Head of Set Design on A Silent Dance. We built Darcy’s Room and constructed the walls for June’s room, as well as decorating Darcy’s room and other miscellaneous jobs.
The first day, Jalila and I painted the wooden boards that would be used for Darcy’s Room. This seems easy, but was actually so much harder than expected, as the paint was hard to spread around and it dried unevenly so we had to do multiple coats.
(In the 3rd photo, you can see the difference between 1 coat of paint and 2 – the board on the left only had 1 coat, whiile the right board had 2 and was much smoother)
Painting was the bulk of the job during construction week. Due to an obligation, I missed when the boards were put up together to create Darcy’s room. But, after they were put up, we measured and layed down flooring that resembled wood in Darcy’s room, as well as wall decor, a rug, a bed, the clock, and other items. We also hung up many paintings, film negatives, photos, and other decor on Darcy’s walls.
We also painted 3 blue boards for June’s room, and measured and glued wooden frames to the walls as a design aspect. There was a lot of moving the boards involved, within the TV Studio and around the ECA, as due to incorrect measurements, we had to take one of the boards to the woodshop to get it cut smaller.
Additionally, every day after working on the set, we would clean up and organize the TV Studio, which meant moving the props and painting equipment to a corner of the room, stacking the wooden boards, and scrubbing the floors in case we got any paint on them.
We were not able to paint the exterior walls, so we will be painting these during filming.
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