Building the Set

 We started building the set, we decided we wanted it to be three flats x three flats , including one window flat and one door flat with one flat missing. We are shooting in the black studio first so we secured the flats in there and then began wallpapering them. This took quite a while as we couldn't paste directly onto the flats and had to use double sided sticky tape, it was very difficult to mask the gaps in between pieces of wallpaper. After we finished this we put up a curtain rail made out of an old broom handle and put up curtains that Jade had bought in from her grandma's house. We then painted the door, I made some shelves out of old wood and screwed them onto one of the flats. We also painted the floor dark brown and began moving in the props we had collected; these are things like a record player with records, two lamps for practical lighting, a rug to break up the floor, a chair, a beuro and a lot of ornaments and picture frames that an old woman would be likely to have in her house.  Finally, we went around and added details such as a light switch, an ash tray with cigarette butts and ash and a plate with crumbs as well as a half full fish tank with grimy water giving the impression that the previous tenant had died. We also created the effect of damp on the wallpaper using Vaseline, to suggest a neglected house perhaps because the woman was too old to care for it properly.