Set Design Portfolio

EU- European Comission Erasmus+ 2023

This was a series of sets designed for a series of filming throughout 2023. The project consisted of the building of around a dozen sets. I was in charge of the building of five of the larger, more complex sets. These will be used throughout the year to film the full score of European languages for Erasmus students learning the local language. I will also be present for some of the shoots as the director's assistant.

Kitchen

Inspiration

This was the inspiration for the kitchen of my EU sets project. The client wanted neutral colors and a "clean" look.

Furnished

Usually, I either work with existing props and furniture, but this time my employer had ordered an array of unbuilt furniture, which I had to assemble and allocate to the sets. I also assisted in the sourcing of niche materials.

Final Product

With this project, I was given free rign to design to my liking, with periodic feedback from my employer. Fortunately, both my employer and the client were happy with all of the sets, which will be used for the year's filming.

Workshop

Medium Wide

This set was also an excuse for me to oragnise the client's array of tools and maintenence materials.

With Positioned Cameras

This set was intended for a wide shot with one closeup on the actor and another on the plane machine on camera right.

Cafe 2.0

Cafe Pre-Production

The client wanted a Starbucks inspired set, minus all of the large text and images. For this look, I created these chalk-board walls for the classic bistro look and drew on some healthy food options.

The design for this cafe was a bit difficult initially, as it required me to have no visible lettering. This is because the set was intended to be shot in all EU langages. For that reason, I designed multiple posters in a tactical font to allude to a menu.

Study Group

Wide

My client sent me a message the day before the shoot to throw together some sort of "study group" set. They needed the illusion of a small classroom/workgoup environment in a small area.

Close Up

This one was a fun shoot because I was an extra on set, despite not knowing Spanish in a Spanish video :) The blinds were also made in a previous project aimed at creating flats with light output (light not pictured here).

Italian Humenesis 2023

Below are three of a little over half a dozen sets built for this project. This was done in the span of a couple days, so me and two other designers worked overtime to complete them to the client's liking.

Living Room

Hotel Reception

Airport Waiting Area

Cafe Design 1.0

Build Projects

A Functioning Door Flat

A Practical Door

The building of this door was arranged by me on the request of a door that acors would be able to walk thorugh.

Delegation

I sourced the materials and the handyman for this project to saw the hole for the doorway in the 10mm MDF board and to counteract the weight of the swinging door.

And a Learning Experience

At the end, my client was happy and the door is functional, but I know what I can do better. The stability of the door relies on the flats on each end to hold it still. Therefore, The door wobbles when in use, unless stationary. This is in part due to the client wanting the door flat to be thin, so the handyman and I had some issues coming up with a solution without sacrifices, something we did not end up finding this time. I had a lot of fun applying the trim and finding the right materials to make the job convincing and the clint was blown away.

Horizontal Office Blinds

This blind and the following vertical blinds were among the blinds I sourced and binded to flat frames in order to allow for the crew to light the blinds from behind and emulate sunlight.

Window with Roller Curtain

As a company on a budget, my client wanted to find an affordable curtain style blind. I had sampled many fabrics in my price range, but it was difficult to find a suitible opacity. We wanted just enough light to come through to have an effect on the scene, but not enough that you could see any equipment through the fabric. I ended up finding this grey blind and another white one for around 15 euros, which turned out perfectly.

Vertical Office Blinds

The beauty of these blinds are that they are versatile, so that a scene can be changed quickly and have an entirely different feel to it. By changing the placement and style of the window and curtain, we're more easily able to transform the structure and atmosphere of the room.

Opaque Acrylic Flat

This was among the first of my build projects. My client asked me to utilise the materials they already had to manufacture semi-transparent dividers to create more visual depth and the illusion of space. The window foil worked wonderfully to emulate a populated airport behind the actors in the foreground. This feat was not done without errors, which mostly stemmed from the brittle acrylic. We ended up putting a hole through one of the completed flats. My solution was to cut the effected area off and use a portion of scrap acrylic and an additional cross beam. This can be seen in the left flat in the image.

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