Modelling

Since we all now have our allocated tasks to complete before we can begin the first design stage, we need to have some rough idea of scale as this will allow everything to look the same size and this will also ensure everything will fit into the set itself. We met a professional set builder called Henry Jones who will be guiding us through the more challenging and technical processes of the project. He instructed us to create some rough foam-board Models to see how all of our different pieces of furniture and decor would look together. This of course had to be done to scale so measuring everything was necessary.

Using a ruler and pencil to mark out how big my doors were then using a sharp knife to cut the shapes out of the foam-board. We were also told by Henry that the Imperial system is mostly used in the industry and therefore is what we should use for this project.

These doors being all right angled doors will present little challenge to design

The door that will be the most challenging to make will be the door in Gregor's bedroom because as the whole wall slants, so will the door as well. We needed to calculate the size of this door early so we know how much of a gap to leave during the creation of the walls.

I had decided that the standard dimensions for my doors would be 28" by 78' except for Gregor's bedroom which would have to be measured according to the length of the room.

Since my doors were rather basic to create out of foam-board, I decided to crack on with the creation of the set model by making the base outline of the whole set.

We now had a good idea of what size everyone should be building to and we were quite happy with how the set was looking so we now must continue to the first design stage and also begin the basic construction of the set itself.