Designing Harry's Home

Design sketches for what I had wanted Harry's home to be, after the initial location recce. images-below are of the original location (sorry no colors) where the setting was bare-minimum, with stark milky-white walls - but was an interesting challenge, as all most designers may relish the opportunity to start with a blank-slate (i know i did :p)


The only daunting part of this endeavour was to (logistically) carry all the items I wanted to this location. It was a flight of narrow staircases 5 stories up. No lift. And in lieu of budgetary constraints of hiring movers, we (ie: Art Department) literally moved every single item up at varying times before the actual shoot. In-between shoots, prior or after other location shoots, we would inevitably end up moving things here, Every single shoot and rest day, without fail for the month leading up to location shoot. We made it a livable home, with working tv and powered-fans. I would've loved to literally "live" there, to be in the mind of Harry, but alas practicality showed me the way ... and it would've been hard to let go of this set, come striking day. A month to set-up and three days to strike.

In the end, this would be my personal most proud setting, as it came as ever close to my designs and mood which I had set forth for myself, and within the budget. (We even came in slightly under-budget)

SCALED-SKETCHES:


FIRST INITIAL SKETCH (you can see it's out of scale and the space looks bigger than it actually is):

Above-right is the night where Harry did his drunken parajump, the living room bathed entirely in red, with the exception of his fish-tank, which i figured is the only "living" company he had after his wife had left him (except for when "Faithful" the dog enters his life) - for which he promptly deep-fried and had the fish for breakfast the next morning (if you can remember the scene from the movie :p).