The document lists materials needed to paint a flat door for a set, including plywood, cocoa bean colored paint, grey paint, and black paint. It then describes how the person drew a rectangular door shape on the flat based on research of Manhattan door styles. They painted the flat and door to match the surrounding flats, making the door grey to coordinate with another door on stage but more basic by adding painted rectangles and leaving off decorations to make that other door look more important. Black paint was used for the number and handle to avoid reflections and create an aged look.

1. Materials list
Plywood
Cocoa bean coloured
paint
Grey paint
Black paint
Firstly I drew the shape of a door on my flat. I chose to do a
rectangular door because from my research I found that
most doors in Manhattan were square. I measured myself
against the flat to make sure that my door was a realistic
size. I painted the flat cocoa bean colour to represent the
wall and to match the flats around mine and on the
opposite side of the set. I decided to paint the door grey to
correspond with the Abuela Claudias door on stage right. I
had to make sure that my door didn’t look exactly the
same as the other door, so I made it look more basic by
painting rectangles on the door to give the door a more 3D
effect and left it without the letter box and flowers so
Abuela Claudias door looked more important. I added a
black number and a black handle to make it look like a real
door. I chose a black number and handle because I didn’t
want it to reflect the light and I thought my original idea of
having a brass handle wouldn’t have been as effective
because it would have looked too new and I wanted to
create the illusion that it had been there for a while and I
didn’t want light to reflect off it.