Moving onto the second week of interior styling, by creating our group mood board last week it allowed us to gather many ideas for the start of this week giving us time to make sure it fits into our Miami Blocking trend correctly. This was because our main focus for this week was to finalise the background wall of the set whilst also thinking about the layout of props in the space. This firstly led me to produce my own back wall designs to gather my own thoughts before giving my own opinion when discussing as a group. By doing this it also allowed myself to see how our colour palette would look like if we used all the colours for the set wall.
Following the experimenting, we then decided as a group to throw ideas out together this had led Yasmin who was in my group to use her Ipad to start drawing them out digitally as it would be a lot quicker. After a long discussion we decided on our first design where I took myself to use Photoshop to get a rough idea on how it would look like with the props we have decided to use. Due to Magda creating the pattern on the wall and emailing me them over I could create the final image.
However, once finishing the first design we gathered as a group with Sian where we gathered our own opinions on what we thought. This is where by listening to Sian’s opinion we decided to change the back wall again as it wasn’t quite fitting to our theme of Miami Blocking. Moving on to producing the second back wall design we decided to remove the stripes that we originally had and kept to the idea of colour blocking and see if we wanted black or white flooring, but this soon quickly got changed as it still didn’t fit to the theme design but also that there were too many props in the image which we also didn’t need as it was crowding the space.
By changing the back wall and coming up with the third design, we decided that the main colour which was white needed to be changed with another colour this was when we decided as a group to get many colour themes together which Magda had produced. It was all down to two types that we then liked which was either the teal as the main colour or yellow, overall we decided that the teal would be the best fit for the situation we were in.
Due to a lot of changes to the back wall design, one of the discussion mentioned by Sian was to produce a group board of work stations layouts to give a better idea on how we would like our own set to look. I feel by doing this as a group it helped out massively as we circled different areas on images that we liked and what would work out in our set, this then gave us all a rough view on how we would like our set to look like but also by not including so many props as the more simple the desk area is the better the overall set will look like as a final outcome.
Finally from all the editing to the first two back wall designs. As a group we listened to what we wanted in the space and what we didn’t want, this led me to go straight back onto Photoshop where we hopefully had our final design. However, by finishing the design we decided that it would be a good idea to speak to Sian and Anwen Peagrum (Interior Stylist) and get there feedback. After a few minutes of talking and making changes there and then with them we removed some of the props to make it clearer but we had also changed the formation of the colours around making on the back wall the teal the main colour instead of white. We also discussed that to make the theme more Miami Blocking style we would paint the floor yellow, to make the set more eye-catching.
During the second week we also decided to move straight onto the prop making, this is when a small group went to woodwork to cut out the support beams for the desk to rest on in our set so that it was stable enough when more props were put on top. To make the beams we had to use the band-saw but also gorilla glue to attach the three pieces together, once the attachments were all dry we then painted them red ready for when they could be drilled onto the back wall. During this week we gathered a range of recycled fabrics from Orangebox which fitted into our colour theme, this was where we then cut a massive amounts of fabric together out in strips ready for when it gets attached to the stool and light to create the fringing effect.
Rebecca Chick 