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During the first week, I had no prior knowledge of what would happen this week. I have not worked with Vedad before and was curious to see what he was like.

With props and set design, the reason I chose this role was because of craft knowledge. I didn't know if we would need any makeshift props for our film but if we did I would know how I could go about making it and where I could do it. This is because I work in the fabrication lab in my spare time at Media City and enjoy working on projects.

so with this, I was ready to add my expertise to the mix.

Not much happened with set design this week as it was more of an introduction to the film and who I'm working with which luckily I already knew who they were which helped us bond as a team.

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Week 2's focus was mainly on casting roles for the film so set design wasn't at the forefront this week. Though we had created a mood board of what we wanted scenes/ sets to look like and what props we wanted.

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Week 3 we were starting to locate and discuss what props we'd need and how we would locate them. A big issue for us was that the script wasn't fully finished yet so it was hard to confirm if we needed something or whether a new scene would be added so we'd need to make a new list. However, with this, there were some scenes we could confirm were staying the same like how we needed a broken camera which was a challenge as the director wanted the camera to be able to flash and make a click noise. I suggested that some of these challenges could be overcome with editing like adding sound effects to make the clicking noises. This was agreed upon at the time but as luck will have it we found an old camera that clicks but unfortunately with no flash.

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We finally had a final draft of our script so we could now feel confident with our choices on what we needed. To try and not blow the budget we discussed what we owned and what the group owned that could aid us in this project. For example, we needed outfits/jackets for our photography scene I was able to supply a jacket that looked like it fit what the model was wearing (as we discussed this with costume) which was a fluffy white overcoat I owned for a fancy dress which suited the aesthetic of the photography shoot.

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As I was on holiday for part of these weeks and my other set designers were working it was hard to communicate and sort out what we were getting and what we still needed to find. But returning from holiday I was able to call up the set designers and get together what we still need to find.

A particularly hard piece to locate was an old TV. This was because the only place I could find them was eBay and most were up for auction which meant while they looked cheap they could steeply increase in price and ruin our budget. I sent some links to our producer to buy as they had the budget money hoping we could get one but as of the time of writing this, we still do not have the TV.

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This week only had two days of filming so organising props and set design wasn't too stressful.

On the first day of filming, I wasn't on set due to not being needed as there was only one prop needed and the set was just the interior of a car which we couldn't do much with anyway.

What I did do for that day was make a taxi sign prop for the car In which I took a driver's learning plate and a laminated taxi logo and stuck them together at the fabrication lab in Media City.

For the second day of filming before the shoot, I met with someone in the photography department to see what broken equipment they would allow us to have to decorate the set. With looking at props I found many stands and lights we could use for the day of filming.

Me and my set design crew made a messy-looking photography studio. We wanted it to be messy as we didn't see Grace as the organized type so we wanted to give personality to Grace through our set which I think we were successful in.

Over the weekend me and another person in set design went to Central Manchester to look around to see if we could find the set props we were missing. We succeeded in this as we found vintage books, vinyls, office equipment and other interesting stuff which we agreed would enhance the sets we used.

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During week 2 of filming, I had a doctor's appointment for my arm on Monday. Luckily this was early in the morning so I was able to finish up and arrive on set in good time. I had a hand in making sure the shots looked like the characters were in the hospital but as we were filming in a hospital it didn't need much work to get the desired outcome. I was also acting that day so I was rehearsing lines throughout the day. For our second scene, I was acting. But I got to use props me and Claudia had found over the weekend which when using I was very satisfied with what we found. Vedad was helpful in that he also brought some props like an old tape recorder which really added to the scene as it actually worked.

Day two we were in Bolton again. In our courtroom scene, we saw that not much set design was needed as it was obvious we were in a courtroom. Though what props were needed Vedad was able to supply. These props were mainly cameras which when acting I got to use.

Day three was my final day on set. This was because filming Thursday and Friday we wanted a smaller crew and as I was the one set designer who hadn't had a day off I was allocated to not go to set. But day three used a lot of props we had used before as day three was agent-focused scenes. Acting a lot that day stopped me from doing much set work but luckily we had locations that did a lot of the talk when showing where we were.

Though I wasn't there I did supply props for sets like envelopes, my mirror and more. These I gave to our assistant director as they were driving to the location.

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At the end of this module, I'm certain that I had an impact on this film. While I think I had input into the set design for places like the photography studio and the hospital I feel that my main strength in this role was acquiring and organising what we needed.

Me having an acting role I think did hinder me a bit when I could have done some set design as I had to be with the directors to show them what shot they wanted. But with this, I'm very looking forward to the end result and seeing my hard work on film.

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setting up this set was fairly easy as we already had a plan of action. But we really did want a box light in shot but as the photography equipment brought was broken the box light looked very poor when shown on camera.

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This scene was fairly empty except the desk which we filled with more old fashioned office equipment to give the agents office more aesthetic.

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This tv product was probably the hardest thing to acquire but unluckily we couldn't buy one online due to budget restrictions. But luckily we found someone who owned a box tv that was willing to lend it to us for filming.

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Most of the broken photography equipment i selected and brought out is in this image which helped fill the room and one shot our director really wanted.

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This taxi scene used the logo id made in media city.

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This scene we wanted a more serious tone from our previous scene. We have gone from whites and light blues to a more dark grey and black colour scheme to show a drastic change in mood.

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We wanted the agents office to feel old timey so we took inspiration from Victorian offices. The agents themselves are quite emotionless so we wanted their place of work to create that environment by using neutral colours and nothing that's bright or happy.

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Similar to the agents office with Neutral colours but we wanted a slight colour change to differentiate the two areas by adding colours of yellow and green to give a sickly feeling, a place that isn't well looked after like the prisoners.

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Blue and Yellow Travel Photo Collage Instagram Post 

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This was a simple idea for the courtroom as we took inspiration off an uk courtroom which all typically look similar with furniture and colour.

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Using the traditional uk hospital colours here to clearly demonstrate where we are. The colours also give a calming aura from the chosen colours of the room. This helps settle the audience from the shock/climax of the previous scene.

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We wanted to show grace as unorganised/messy. But as this scene entails more supernatural events we wanted the scenes to have washed out colours of dirty greens and yellow to make it unsettling for the audience.