DONE! Cottage Interior Ready to Shoot Scenes

Using the new camera/lens setup and getting used to framing the scenes around the furnishing gives a nice preview of how the film is ideally supposed to look. 

 This is a wide-angle phone snap of the empty "before" shot of the bare cottage set interior with its fly-away walls removed. The 360º Main Set comprises several smaller sets within and around it. The windowed wall left of the open front door is also removable, leaving the tree trunk and kitchen (behind the red curtain) attached like a fixed backdrop for several cottage scenes.

And another phone snap after a weekend of dressing the interior set(s). Everything got hot glued down in the background as that never needed to move. I left the bedroom and living room removable, as they'll need to move out for certain interior shooting access. The most awkward shooting will be getting shots from the doors and windows into the bay window (not shown here) and back at the bedbirth when the walls and curtains are around it. Basically, any reverse shot will require some intense camera positioning.

It's m*a*g*i*c*a*l to see it fully realized after so long. Illegally Fun.

Here's the cozy bed next to its moonlight-lit rose-covered window. Please notice the Caterpillow puppet with its soft features sculptured by Crick! How great it looks, illuminated by the warm lantern light. Yaz sent the wool applique slipper from Turkey!

Notice, too, the Knitting Beetles busy on the nightstand.

Camera where the removable bay window walls stand, we see the living room near the warmth of the hearth. Here Rana sews every evening from her big chair across the table from the half-charitable. Pretty flowers in a slow water-filled crystal vase, a bowl of soup, and a cup of tea atop the stained tablecloth.

We look toward the kitchen from the bed area behind a berry bramble-tangled curtain.  We see the prep table filled with baskets of produce and cook's tools. Shelves behind overflow with jams and oils, while drawers are filled with onion and potatoes, pots and pans. The table skirt is lifted to reveal the collected stacks of dirty dishes. Dust bunnies form themselves in the corners.

A built-in cabinet in the tree holds spices in little bottles. Honey flows from the natural hive into the honey dish just under the roots. The candlelier is successfully solidly installed after all, but the glow will have to be added in post as done in the other stills above.