ABSTRACT
If your setting is an important part of the story you will want to create the right atmosphere. For your own project, if it’s fantasy it’s up to you, but for any period or realistic locations do research the look. Get some location pictures of what it should look like: if it’s your granny’s sitting room, take a photo, decide what is the thing in that room that gives it atmosphere. An old 1950s radio? A pair of slippers? The cat asleep on the back of the sofa? A pile of magazines on the floor? It’s probably a combination of all these things. Do you need to be able to see down the street? Does the exterior match the interior? What period is her house?
For a street scene, try to make the angles interesting. Looking straight on from a middle of the road position to a row of terraced houses for a whole scene could be dull. Imagine the from an alleyway set
