Scene Arctitecture

Today we all went to the V&A gallery in London to try and get a better idea of the layout of gallery rooms and lighting. I took a whole bunch of photos, even though I probably wasn't allowed to in some areas of the gallery!

I like the lighting in the photograph above. The colour of the walls are good too, and the spot lights on each painting are nice touch too. Have to keep this in mind for our film.

These (above) are some very 'classical' gallery setups. By this I mean then are quite old looking, like large picture frames and swirly decor. It is very dark in these rooms with deep colours on the walls. The art in these types of rooms are very old.

Glass cabinets would be a nice touch too, maybe in front of some paintings or around some vase's or sculptures.

Whereas these (above) are much more modern in how they look, like light coloured walls and less detail in the room. everything is inline and neat. The art work in these rooms are modern and mostly photographs rather than paintings.

I took some photos of the more detailed areas in the rooms, such as the coving, barriers, benches, doors etc. These are all things we need to look at closely when designing and modeling them:

The white and dark colour on the walls works really well here and gives it a nice clean edge finish. We want our gallery to be nice and clean too so this is worth bearing in mind for when we come to texture.

Gold frames are a must in our painting. These fancy ones are exactly what i had in mind. Modeling references!

Bench ideas maybe? Might be a little simple as we are getting marked on the environment and level of modeling.

Nice touch would be to have a stand of writing about the paintings.

Door textures - dark wood, thats if we decide to have doors on our gallery...

This is what i was talking about earlier, having some glass in there around a vase or something. This would be such a cool little feature to our gallery!

We went into a certain room, and everything was perfect for what we had in mind for our film. We used a panorama camera to capture the whole room as one image so we could take it home and look at it in more detail. (click image to enlarge it)

Then later on in the gallery visit, we found another room where the lighting was more what we wanted in our film because it is set at night, after the gallery has shut. Here is another panoramic photograph of the second room. (click image to enlarge it)