Set Building- The Farm

To build my farm, I first got some mdf cut in the woodwork work shop, cut to 1m by 1m, and then used modrock to created some grass banks and soil banks to give my farm some texture and depth. 

I then covered all of the non-grassy elements of the set with sand, and then soil when I ran out of sand, to add texture. 

While the glue was drying, I made some fences out of popsicle sticks. I learnt that these worked best when I made each half of the fence seperately and attached them when they were dry. 

Once the pva was dried on the farm, I spraypainted the whole thing with a matt black undercoat.

Then I begun painting. I painted the grassy areas so that they were darker on the outside and then grew lighter in the middle. 

With the path, I painted the whole path brown and then went over it with the yellow ocre and naples yellow to give the road some depth. With the soil, I painted them all dark and then the raised parts I painted gradually lighter to exaggerate the depth. 

I recruited my friend Noel to dry the paint with a hair dryer while I painted the fences so that I could continue painting the set as quickly as possible. I painted the fences all dark brown and then drybrushed some pale yellow over the top to give them the appearance of wood.

After the farm was painted, Rosy and I built a farm house with more popsicle sticks to act as beams, and grout to give the walls a texture and then spray painted them black. 

I then painted these, cut out a door and assembled them on the set. The house is a little small but it fits with the set and the amount of it that will be in the shot gives the appearance of a house well enough.