Misc Set & Prop Placement

If you see the movie, you can see that we moved the Barber's chair from one side of the room to the other and down stage ... it took 3 seconds.

This strategy to developing a set is invaluable. DO IT. Require that your set company provide this and also take lots of pics with props in different locations, with and without people and even different lighting -- overhead, from stage right or left and straight on. It works.

As you can see, the scale of the set model is small and allows for very easy modifications.

3-D Foam Scale Model

This is a scale model of the set, designed to allow us to see what the drawings look like in 3-D. It facilitates a clearer vision of the vision. It accomplishes many savings going forward:

• determining distance between set pieces
• loosely blocking movement on set
• creating zones for furnishings, cast, crew, lights, cameras, etc.
  
• placement of set pieces -- moving a sofa takes only seconds
  
• allows us to see how master lights effect the set
• where additional movable walls could be placed
  

This is the phase after the drawings are approved and certain set furnishings determined. As a blank white palette, it is so much more easy to scan issues and make decisions without the distraction of exact color, exact styling of set pieces and distances. The foam set helps bring the set to life in ways that get us to the next level ... the build.