Construction
For the creation of my set, I needed a large variety of things:
•Three standardized (2.44x1.22m) boards of ply
•Some scrap plywood
•Masking tape
•Stencils and tools (pencils, rulers, impact drivers, drills)
•Paint and paintbrushes
•Steel decking
•Bracing
•Stage weights
•Props (monitor, phone, desk, chair, etc.)
To start the project, I made a rough scale drawing of the set, to understand the size of the office I was creating, where the door and window needed to be and where the patterned checkered lines were to see if it was knee high or higher. I based my scale drawing off the size of the table I was going to be using in the office, to give the room as much as an enclosed and claustrophobic feel as possible. I also had to decide if I was using two or three walls; originally, I had planned to have three walls, but when I had discovered my showcase was going to be in the back corner of the room, I decided on two to make it a corner piece instead, which I was certainly happy I did later down the line. After the scale drawing was completed, I took the three boards of ply I needed and gave them a white base coat.
After the walls were painted white, I mixed up a light grey, and painted the walls entirely grey. After they had dried, I measured 60cm up from the board, my steel decking was going to be 30cm off the ground, so the bottom of my patterned line was going to be 60cm off the floor, and 30cm from the deck itself. I marked four lines across the boards, with 6cm gaps between each line, and then marked the two interior gaps with boxes each being cm also. Forging the foundation for the red outlined black and white checkered patterns across the wall. First, I painted the red outliner before painting both the black and white boxes, touching each corner up where needed at a later stage. I did this using masking tape to ensure I would not overextend the paint onto other paint, and to keep all the patterns neat and tidy.
While the paint for walls dried, I took some door frame carved timber and cut of the edges, forming a thinner window frame and using the cut pieces for the door frame, I painted all these frames black and left them to dry with the boards over a night. The following day I used some scrap ply boards to cover over the patterns I had made and mixed a darker grey, then I began to scoop large amounts of the paint onto a brush and flicked it at the board, creating a very splattered and pattern less look to the grey of the wall, really giving the walls the 80's pizzeria look.
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​With all the patterns and paint flicking done, I moved onto the door and window creation. For the window, I cut a 50x80cm hole in my one corner side wall. I then cut some (window) just a few centimetres over that size and screwed it to the back of the board. I then cut my black window frames to size, angling the corners to rest against each other, then I used wood glue to sick them to the board. Leaving it to set over a night.
And finally for the door. I used a silver metalic spray paint and painted a large rectangular box 30cm form the bottom of the floor, then outlined it with the door frames I had painted from before, once again angling the corners to rest against each other to give it the nice door frame corner pattern. While that dried, I painted the steel deck to have white squares on it each 30cm big, to give the floor a chequered look. Once the door was dry, I painted slanted black and yellow caution lines in line with the red outline black and white chequered pattern on the rest of the wall. Then I painted a small black rectangle next to the door and screwed two small squares to the wall making the door and light "buttons" for the door
