Fiction Adaptation Unit- Choosing a Kitchen Set.

Today I decided to investigate whether or not my kitchen would be a suitable area to film the indoor scenes for my adaptation of "An Anthem for a Doomed Youth". I did this simply by taking  afew photos with my phone camera and visualizing whether or not it looked good or not.

Obviously this isn't the best kind of way I could have tested this idea, as a phone camera is quite poor quality and will never emulate the quality of the DSLR I plan to use, but I feel that the snaps I took gave me a good idea of what I want the room to look like.

Here are the photos I took:

I actually really like the way the room looks, and the fact that only one of the kitchen lights were on creates a very dingy look, which is what I am going for with my film. The table also makes the scene look almost like an interrogation room.

Once I had the photos of the room, I decided to do a quick photoshop edit to lower the saturation and add a colour filter, which I plan to do with the final film. This would allow me to visualize the finished film even further. The edited photo is here:

As you can see, the edit is very subtle, but it adds a certain something. The colours look quite washed-out, but this is a result of the image being taken on a phone camera. 

As for the set itself, I am happy with the way it looks. The tiling above the cooker and the walls and flooring in particular look quite unkept- something I visualized when deciding on what kind of set I wanted.

One problem I discovered with this set however is that there are irremovable fire hazard signs in the kitchen which are written in English. If you remember, my character is Russian- living in Russia. Therefore it will be necessary for me to either cover this sign somehow, or do my best to not have it in shot when I film.