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This photograph was taken at about 5.30am in late summer. After having difficulty sleeping I decided to have an early start to the day and took my camera with me for a walk up South Common in Lincoln. There was a beautiful sunrise, and a nearby pony decided to pose gracefully infront of me with [...]

The following set design drawing was one that I drew recently to depict the differences between Working Class and Middle Class in Pre-1914 (1st world war) Britain. I used the inspiration from the BBC Drama: Upstairs Downstairs and the famous play: ‘An Inspector Calls’ which was set in a 1912 Middle Class drawing room.  By using [...]

This is the same Bookshop set, but this time we needed the shop to look as if Horace (the bookshop owner) had just had a new delivery of books. We managed to get a good deal and bought 14 boxes of old books for £10 from a man at a car boot sale who basically wanted [...]

Yesterday I put together the Special’s board for the pub set, it will be hung on a wallpapered ‘brick effect’ flat. I just made it from a scrap piece of MDF and some blackboard paint and chalk paint. Click HERE to view the finished prop. Below you can see the prop in the finished pub set; [...]

This week I completely finished the bookshop set ready for the film shoot in the TV studio. I’m so pleased with it! We decided to put the lamp and a bookcase in the foreground so we could get some interesting camera shots with the Jib camera. The layout of the flats has changed a little bit [...]

Here is the bookshop set all put together in the TV rehearsal, we used this time to block through with the actors and block through with the different camera shots.

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We assembled and put up 10 bookshelves onto the flats, it was a mundane and boring job but after a few hours it was done! And once the blackboard and notice board was up things were starting to come together very nicely, ready for next weeks filming shoot CLICK ON PHOTOS TO ENLARGE [...]

As you can see we’ve started wallpapering the flats – first with a plain underlay and then the wood effect and detailed wallpaper over the top. Afterwards I thought it would be a great idea to coffee stain the wallpaper to make the Bookshop look older. I did this because the wallpaper looked too new as [...]

For this I simply got some scrap MDF left over from making the flats and then painted it with blackboard paint and started writing on it with liquid chalk. This will soon be attached to one of the bookshop flats.

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Here are some photos of me and the Set Team making our 8feet x 8 feet flats for the Set for our TV programme. £200 worth of MDF, plywood and screws, many hours of work with the screwdriver later we finished four 8×8 double sided MDF paneled flats.

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Working Design – Basic This drawing is a very basic outline drawing of how much wooden panelling I’d like to use on the flats. It also gives an idea of basic furniture needed without all the small props so that I know the essential items that I need. I’m extremely pleased with this design and hopefully [...]

4 Studio Sets – Designed by Laura Payne

CSI Prop Room Set
CSI Crime investigation Room Set
Sophia Summers Dressing Room Set
Awards Ceremony Set

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