Building the set was really interesting, and a massive learning experience as well as being exhausting and time consuming to say the very least. We had very little time to put the set up for starters, just three days to do it and we ran into a few complications along the way.
On the first day we put up all the walls and put down the floor. The floor, which was one bought in the studio by another group, was slanted where it had been cut for a slanted set at one point, which made it very difficult to fit to the shape of the set, so we had to build the set slightly differently in order to fit them in properly. It did not affect the amount of materials we needed, but it took a bit of time that we did not have. Towards the end of the day, we were rushing and I was pushing to get the walls wallpapered so that they would have time to dry overnight and we could paint them when we came in that morning.
The next morning, on set build day number 2, we started painting. I had to go over some bits of wallpaper with some more wallpaper paste just to set it a little bit on the edges, but in general I think everyone did a pretty good job. The main thing today was the feature wall. Laura had the idea of creating stencil just to print on the wall, however because we put the wallpaper on before we stenciled it, there wasn't enough pressure behind it to stencil it properly and they came out blotchy or patchy. In the end, we had to have some people go round making the stencils and people following them filling it in with paint. As you can imagine this took a really long time, and we didn't finish this until day three. I think it's safe to assume that everyone was exhausted by the end of day two.
On the last day, we got the wall done by the afternoon, which was good and I'm glad we got a massive chunk of it done during day two. The last day was mostly finishing off painting the rest of the walls and then putting all the decoration and props in. I had my housemate Jess come along to draw on the blackboard we had, which looked really nice! And which we later made a frame for. I was really impressed by how the set looked at this point and everyone who came in said it was looking really good. It was not how I imagined it, but both Laura and Shahid were happy with it and so was I.
During this last day, myself and Laura also had to organise some last minute things for the actors. James Winter, who was playing Pete had just told us he couldn't get a suit for himself so we had to rush and buy one, on top of this not long before we had also had the surprising organisational task and monetary issue of finding him a hotel to stay in as we weren't aware of his location in Peterborough. So it was safe to say we were already feeling the heat of the shoot and it wasn't even there yet!
By the end of the day, Tom and Shahid had started setting up the glide cam and we had got our kit from the stores ready for shooting the next day.
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