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Mini-Istanbul – a metropolis in one room

Posted on February 5, 2013 by admin

The set building process:
First, there was an inspirational. Then (and those photos I spare you) I started to do a small plastillin blocking and drew rough groundplans of the buildings visible in the inspirational.
Then Eugen Kelle started blocking in 3-D until we had a set big enough for the camera move and sent out floor plans – basically the measurements of the set itself and the different heights of ground.
Pablo in Ruit built a wooden construction which was covered in styrofoam by Jörg. While Pablo started working on construction of the houses which include the practicals, Jörg started to saw back, middle – and later foreground houses from styrofoam – and would continue to do so for  several days, as there were many!
In the meantime the detailed “light-street-foreground” houses got into shape mainly on Nina´s and Susanna´s desks. More streets, groundplans, foreground houses, facade smoothing and filling, adjustment of all houses, fixing them to the set and finally the paint work – everybody working hard.
You guys in Ruit did an amazing job!

The inspirational
Wooden construction

The “light street” in the middle of nowhere
underneath the facade

the city growing…

Pablo working on the practicals
Where are we??

city growing…
and growing…

still growing
finally: dawn by Susanna

And more colours.

Posted in Inspirational Artwork, Kara the film, Set building | Tags: Inspirational Artwork, Istanbul, miniature set, Set building |
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