#6 Pipeline Project - Snow White and Rose Red

Hello! 

We have officially finished shooting for Snow and Rose!  Working on the set, doing the set design and prop building has been such an eye opening experience. I can honestly say that this project has been the  most enjoyable project I've worked on thus far. It just reconfirmed the fact that I want to do this for a living. It's great!

We made a ton of paper roses for the opening scene of the trailer. It's a stop motion bit where the rose bushes grow. That in itself was challenging since it was winter and real rose bushes are practically dead. We were resourceful and gathered some sticks and tied them together. We used twine to attach the roses. Alex did the animation part with the videographers. 

Here are the shots of the props that I made with the Set Design Crew, Alex Kim and Emily Masley. 

Here is the interior of the cottage. Since I'm the Head of Set Design, I  rearranged the living spaces, redecorating as needed. The props on the table and in the kitchen were all brought and collected from members of the group.

I really enjoyed setting up everything and making it look like someone lived there. I also had to omit certain props that didn't seem to fit the look or things that the characters wouldn't have in their lives. Paying attention to detail was key!

The hardest part about doing this was making sure that no one moved or messed up anything. With a crew the size of ours it wasn't always easy.

Environment Concept Art!

Howdy!

For the past few weeks in my Digital Design class we've been working on environmental concept art. We initially looked at nature for our inspiration and the shapes that are commonly found in nature. We had to think in shapes for this project.

I decided to break out my watercolors (something I rarely do for my digital classes) and I scanned in the patterns I made. I then vectorized the shapes and rearranged them to suit my fancy. I really was trying to get a sense of atmosphere and depth. I made grey scale versions of my black and white images. Then I did numerous color studies (here I've only shown a few.) Then I threw it into Photoshop and started to  paint on it. I also have been noticing that I sometimes have value issues so I was very conscious of that.

I did some variations on the final:

The process:

#5 Pipeline Project - Snow White and Rose Red

The day of shooting was fantastic! I loved working on the set behind the scenes! It was quite the learning process. Since I didn't have a camera, I was there to fix props, assist the director, help apply fake blood and hair! It was great. We had some kinks, but I think that's pretty normal for such a large project. We worked them out pretty nicely. I'm very pleased with the results. 

I'm the smart lady who didn't bring a camera for the day! So I've chosen photographs that show off the props and things that the set design crew made!

Sarah Brevick took these photos: 

Here are some of the photos that Palmer Pattison took:

In these photos you can see some of the props better! Great job everyone! Our hardwork is starting to pay off. And a big thanks to the wonderful actors and actresses! 

#4 Pipeline Project - Snow White and Rose Red

As head of Set Design, I met with my crew Alex K. and Emily M. to make the props for this project. We needed 4 swords, 1 bear costume, 3 crowns, a bag of jewels, and sword scabbards. In less than 24 hours. We don't have photographs of the final products because we're waiting to use a more professional studio like area for the props.

We hadn’t originally planned on making the swords, but due to some miscommunication issues we made swords. Thanks to some brilliant people, we figured out how to make these swords fast and cheap.  Yard sticks! And then when we rushed to woodshop, we didn’t even need a ruler. Alex was a wiz at designing and creating these. He used hot glue to make the details on the blades. We wrapped fabric and wire on the hilts for more authentic look. We used metallic spray paint to finish it off!

The bear head was constructed out of 16 gauge wire and fur. I love working with wire and I finally bought myself some nice needle nose pliers! That was exciting. Hot glue was my best friend when attaching the fur. I purchased the fur from JoAnn's. I made the eyes and nose out of Sculpey and spray painted it black. 

Emily sewed up the awesome Dwarf bag o' gems! I know sewing up burlap is a pain in the booty. She also made the Prince's crown! That was made out of wire and gems.  

Here are some photos that Alex took: 

I also made the crowns for the girls out of wire and flowers. Here are some photos of that in progress. 

#3 Pipeline Project- Snow White and Rose Red

So as you know, I'm part of a pipeline project in my Design for Media class. We're making a book trailer for Grimm's Fairytale Snow White and Rose Red.

This week as we're moving along with the project we needed to finalize the story. Beth D. (Director), Emily M.(Head of Story), Matt S.(Co-Art Director), and I sat down together to finalize the story. We were later joined by Sakhile V., Yazmin R. and Palmer P. It's always fun to work with other people on a common goal and also very challenging. Especially when we all had different visions for the story. We were all very professional and eventually sealed the deal!

I also went location scouting with Beth twice during the week. She took photos of the sites we visited to I have a link to her blog to see the photos. Some of the sites were perfect for their exteriors, like the woods, but didn't have a good cottage and vice versa.

 We also went thrifting to find costumes for the characters. We were lucky to find the prefect fur coat for the Bear/Prince. It was a very rewarding day. Having tangible items makes the project feel like it's coming along nicely.

Makaylee W. also created the final character designs for the production. Here is a link to her blog. I also had Sarah B. making paper roses for some of the shots in the production. I'll be building the crowns for the models as well as the Bear head.

I've compiled the Master Prop List for the production. This is an easy way to see what people on the production already have as well as keep everything organized.

CHARACTER ACCESSORIES AND COSTUME BASICS

Swords (2 large, 2 smaller)

Bag of gold (canvas bag, grungy)

Crowns (2 rose crowns, 1 crown for prince)

Leather belts and sword scabbards (as many as possible)

Light jewelry for the girls, preferably with rose decorations

2 dresses (one white, one red)

2 capes for the girls

Fur coat/cape

Worn jacket

2 pairs of knickers for the gents (some sort of  canvas material)

2 Slippers or ballet flats for the girls

2 Boots for the gents

Pouches and bags for small decorations on the gents ( attach to belts)

Earth tone socks for the gents

Vest and cotton shirt long sleeve for Dwarf

Grungy cotton long sleeve shirt for Bear

INSIDE THE COTTAGE

Containers of flour, sugar

Rolling pin

Vegetables

Kitchen knife

Cutting board

Tea set

Kettle

Stove

Pots and pans

Wooden spoon

Bowls

Other silverware

Basket of yarn with knitting needles or sewing items

Woven baskets for collecting flowers and berries

Wooden tables (dining table and end tables or coffee tables)

Broom

Rugs

Pillows

Blankets (throws)

Vases

Flowers

Books

Picture frames (photos of RR and SW)

Chairs

Fire place

Wood for fire

Fireplace poker

OUTSIDE THE COTTAGE

Paper rose bushes (tissue paper)

Other sticks and twigs to build frame of bush

Paper leaves if there are no real leaves

Berry bush

We’ll have to do the best of what we can with the location we have.

I'll be posting the art department schedule later to keep us all on track. I'll say being an Art Director forces you to get organized!