Who lived here once…

PURPOSE: Subtle Set Enhancements to humanize the “set” and make it a “character” of the story. Give some idea of its back story. Who lived there? What was it used for? Take this awesome location from the student filmmaker level of “This would look really cool on camera” to “every frame we’ve chosen to shoot advances the plot and character”…

AVOID: Ideas that are too big. Don’t forget the time line and the budget. Remember that subtle and consistent is better than big ideas few and far between.

IDEAS and INSPIRATION:

The Manhattan Project – recruited a ton of brilliant minds from all over the world to come and make this project apart of their lives from inception to completion… this time limit meant many of them brought their families w/ them… You had a juxtaposition of this cookie cutter housing complex built to temporarily house dependents and then huge industrial facilitates where the atom bomb was being built… crazy.

A sign from one of the MP communities.... creepy right?

Evocative of the MP contrast prevelant in some of its compounds.

Juxtaposition: mundane next to otherworldly

OBJECTS LEFT OVER FROM THIS SCIENTIFIC UTOPIA:

A “music room”

an old "music classroom" with broken dusty instruments

“Run down and aged play ground”

what would a playground in a powerplant look like?

creeeppyyy but cool

Gross playground stuff

MURALS

Subtle propaganda murals for the “level down” shot

Obviously, to a much smaller scale.... but if we could pull of something like this for the level down area that would be so cool

RUG for the level down area… at one point it was attempted to make it look and feel like a “home”