davidd’s A DOLL A DAY 2022

[davidd]

8 September - A Doll A Day 2022:

This nightclub diorama room box originated back in mid-2018 as a temporary setting consisting to two short walls coming together to make a corner:



It was originally intended to be a temporary backdrop to be discarded, but the parts were still hanging around -- hard to imagine, I know -- in December 2020, so they were integrated in to a larger, more substantial diorama for a Christmas Party sequence:



Since December 2020 the box has been sitting in the storage shed, complete with Christmas tree, occasionally disappearing completely and at other times partially emerging from beneath the ebb and flow of clutter:



The 2020 version is rather odd shaped, narrower at the back than at the front. I do not recall now why I constructed it that way. I believe it had something to do with trying to create a sense of visual depth, and to allow for a variety of camera angles that would disguise how small the space actually is:



I recently decided to make another half-hearted attempt at salvaging this room box before deciding whether to discard it completely. This entailed reworking the walls (with scissors and hot melt glue) to create a rectangular space offering more usable floor area than did the previous tapering design:



It doesn't take much for the space to begin looking cluttered again. Doll and action figure room box spaces are usually much smaller than they should be to properly reflect true scale, but even a small 1:1 scale room takes up an enormous amount of table or shelf space in 1:6 scale, so for practical doll photography purposes, the scale spaces are usually condensed:



I have another section of wall somewhere, including a cut-out for a door, with which to fill in the missing left-side wall space. It's often helpful to either have a "short wall" on one side of a room box, or to have a section of wall that can be easily removed, to allow for easier camera and lighting access.

I hope I can find the missing wall section within the next few days. I'm already getting tired of working on this mess, and I'm thinking I should have just binned it before I started.

The original version had colored lights integrated in to the walls, I still need to replace the lights. As with so many other bits and pieces, I repurposed the lights for something else and now I'm not sure where I put them.