Overall across this unit I am very very pleased with the outcome of creating a set design from my concept art and the development through each task.

For this unit I had to create a set design based on my concept art piece I had created in the last unit. The concept art I chose to create was a spaceship inspired from guardians of the galaxy to make it have a futuristic look. The concept for the film is the lonely space traveller Matilda has to leave earth before of the dangerous threat that is happening and steals this ultra high tech spaceship from NASA. This ship is designed for interstellar travel however Matilda only goes to the moon as she is only young. When designing this ship I wanted it to be very capacious and large to make it seem huge to Matilda and overwhelming. This is so we can display her emotions of being sad, lost and alone through the camera more. My set design started on sketchup which took numerous days to create and make perfect as I wanted to include a lot of details like texture as well as 3d elements to the set to make it more interring for the audience as well as a more realistic look. I started with the main frame of the ship that would fit inside of the boomsatuma main studio. To do this we created a floor plan using measurements and creating a scale model of a factor of 1:50. By creating the walls in sketch first it really helped me to allocate the space of the design especially with the balconies and the stairs leading to the airlock. After creating my sketch model I was tasked to create my 3D White card model which allowed for a lot of creative freedom when making the design. Unlike when making my sketch model, for my 3D white card I pulled all of my focus to one wall at a time and adding as much texture with pencil as well as 3D elements to the wall such as control panels or piping work before sticking it down with the glue gun. By adding all the detail before gluing meant that it was much easier to keep adding rather than having to glue on the side or trying to add further texture at a later date. I found with my white card model it was very tricky to create the stairs and the chairs because using the card and a pencil it was very fiddly to get it the right size and still look realistic. I decided when making my model that I wanted to keep my original plan to have a removal wall on one of the sides as well as a fully removal roof. This allows me more camera access to greater areas that would have been too tight if not. Also by having a removal roof not only is that we can get stunning overhead shots for when Matilda would be walking in and out, it also allows us to light the set in a much more creative manner as there is a greater space to do so. 

When working on sketchup towards the end of making my model I was having some issues where we discovered my set design was too small by a factor of roughly 3. Thos presented a problem initially as trying to work out the scale for the white card model was very tricky so the only solution I had was resizing the whole model and adapting certain items such as chairs and other 3D elements that would of been too big for the wall sizing on the 3D white card model. I had issues when making my white card model especially around the point of creating the removal wall. For this there was a lot of elements that needed to be added to it which once I started I did realise some of the items were not going to be possible. For this I edited the model after my peer feedback to adapt this further to allow for all of the details to be correct and accurate. Another issue that was presented once I started the task was the budget for the set was going to be tight. After spending a lot of hours searching through a lot of D.I.Y sites and including calling individual places to give me quotes I managed to get the whole set build into the allocated budget of £1500 by just £7! 

I am very happy with the final result of this set design unit and the way the white card model and sketcup model not only both matched each other but kept really similar to the concept art I am super pleased. If I were to do this unit again I would spend more time on my white card model and less on the sketchup design as I feel I could of included only slightly more detail on the white card model. As well I would keep checking the measurements very often to make sure everything is to the correct sizing needed for the floor plan.