The Consulting Room
This set was designed for an online video tutorial for the School of Health Sciences at RMIT University. The consulting room provides a space for actors/chiropractors to demonstrate techniques and approaches for consultative and examination procedures used in the education of undergraduate students.
There are four main components of the set: a series of walls and screening devices, joinery items including a desk and shelves, props including the consulting bench and painted out floor areas. The long section of wall provides a backdrop to a part of the footage that captures a patient’s walking style. The wall has a slit window opening that allows light into the space suggesting an external context. The other walls are used as background screening devices to assist in directing the viewer’s focus towards the patient and practitioner. The joinery items, the consulting bench and associated props provide cues as an office/medical practitioners consulting room. The painted floor sections articulate a change in zone between the more administrative function of the desk and the more procedural space of the chiropractic table.