Video store set

The interior shots of the video store were done on a 'set', not inside the actual model. I did it this way so that it was possible to take unencumbered eye-level photos of scenes inside the store. I wasn't too sure how this would work, so I built a set of the easiest and most important section of the store, the main video wall that contains new movie releases as well as new American and British tv shows and a section dedicated to movies from the Criterion collection. The wall was photographed in sections: one photo for each rack and a few others for the posters at the top. These photos were then rescaled and pieced together - no doubt there is an app out there to do the hard work, but it turned out to be not too difficult. Set scene photos were shot with an LED light block held over the set to provide fairly uniform illumination. Is it cheating to use photos for the racks and models for the figures? Probably, but I find the contrast between the two elements interesting, and it's getting closer to producing the kind of feeling I'm looking for.