Nov 13

Today I started my set model. I wanted to start today because I’m leaving again tomorrow for a week, and the PP is due soon, and I still have to script all of my episodes, film them, edit them, finish my costume design, finish composing, and make my social media marketing materials. I took a video of me showing all of my materials to the camera and explaining them just in case I might want to use that footage for the web series. I also took a time lapse video of me making it, which I also thought might come in useful.

I am using a Large Model Base that I found at Hobby Lobby that was the exact dimension I needed, and it comes with a backdrop wall and sides. However, the plastic that contained the wall was hot glued to the base, so I had to spend a good amount of time scraping off the hot glue globs with an exact knife and a pair of scissors. The base needed to be flat so that I could lay things on it and the hot glue wasn’t just a small dollop, it was a thick glob about the size of a quarter, so I had not choice but to remove it.

After that, I surveyed all of my materials so decide what I wanted to use, and I ended up using all of the nature materials like false grass, small wood circles, miniature pinecones, and the like - I wanted to have a naturalistic setting to contrast the magic and majesty of the goddesses. I had some blue, pink, and gold cloth flowers that I was convinced that I was going to use because they would each represent a goddess, and I was envisioning them making a flower path for the goddesses to walk on (where they walk flowers sprout), but it ended up not working out like I thought. I did end up using some beautiful small metal flowers, though, because they lent an ethereal tone to the whole thing; in a realistic landscape the presence of the goddesses are causing magical things to happen. I haven’t glued anything down yet because I’m still not sure if I am 100% happy with it, and I don’t want to glue until I am sure that it is as good as it can be.

I still don’t know what I am going to do for the background, but I’ll figure that out eventually - I just need to think. I don’t want to do a mountain backdrop or blue sky or anything like that, I know that. I just don’t know exactly what it should be.

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