Sketches and Drawings
When we first started designing our sections, we started out with sketches on paper. We created three designs to show the directors. After we showed these to the directors, we started sketching out the plan of the auditorium on the table, drawing things to scale. This helped us to work out how much of the floor space we are taking up and how we can arrange things better. We also used this method to help us work out the number of seats we can fit in each section and to make sure the emergency exits had the required room.
After making these plans, we started learning how to do 3D drawings. We were given a previous model box to practice our 3D skills. We first started by drawing a massive cube and then splitting it up into 1m by 1m squares. This require a lot of thinking as the closer a square is, the bigger it is. We solved this by making the back wall as perfect squares, then using diagonal lines on the floor to create squares that will scale at the correct rate. We then used the back wall, and the ground to work out the walls. After this, we used the scale on the back wall and the vanishing point to scale everything up when it is brought forward.
After creating the model, the final drawing I had to do was a 2D drawing, also called a technical drawing. This drawing consists of drawing the model from 3 specific different angles: one from above, one from the front and one from the side. The drawing is made to scale and has to include all measurements on it. There are also specific notations used in the drawing. For instance, any staging has a cross on it to symbolise that it is staging. Another notation needed for technical drawings is the height of any set off the floor. There is also a box with information in it that we had to put on it. The box had to have the play’s name, the theatres name, the Director’s names, the thing being drawn, who designed and drew it, the date and the scale.
