#unit 78

we started discussing ideas once we had read the scripts and got the concept of the directors. the scripts gave us the idea of building a tower that could be interchanged into houses village and a castles so we could incorporate all 3 shows in one. but once we where given the concept that was 'children in a 1930's barn acting out the plays as if they were playing'. so once we found that out, that kind of destroyed our ideas. so we knew we had to build a barn and our idea was to have a raised platform all along the back which in the end never changed. but i wanted to have the band pit in the stables under the raised platform but we realised it wouldn't of looked right and it would of been dark and difficult to light so under the platform ended up being all open for the cast to run around. other designers wanted to have cart wheels and tools all around the place. in the end we had loads of tools but the cart wheel never made it in. the other designer deigned barn doors to go over our fire exits to make it look more like a barn. the rest of it ended up being struts and beams that we sourced from our research. we also designed hay bails and bought bridles and saddles in to dress the set. a lot of this we spoke about for ages and a lot of all the changes took place between when we read the scripts and till we finished the model box. most the ideas that were scrapped was because in the production meetings the directors didn't like our plans.

When cutting you put very little pressure on the blade and using a steel ruler you cut into the card/foam board/ balsa wood by repeateadly going over the first cut until the blade goes through the material you are cutting. This way you are more likely to get a straight eage. For saftey you should always cut away from youself and concentrate on the task in hand because if you don’t you can cause injury. 

when we started on ubu and we were given the concept, we decided scafle boards look a lot like the beams and joists in all the barns we had seen in our research, so we decided to use them as the main material to use in our barn. in the research we collected we took ideas from them all. after we decided on the barn we needed to pick what kind of barn we want we ended up with a 1930's style barn that had been abandoned, so we have put in all the joists and weathered them down to look old. we also had a barn door that the directors wanted. because part of the concept was children playing we have put in a tire swing that can double up as a horse, we have a cargo net on one side of the theatre, there is also a load of climbing ropes to get up and down off the barn and a trapeze also dead centre just in-front of the crash matt descised in hay.

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I  had planned to makes this my re-spawn area. I was going to animated the mushroom going into the pipe like Mario games. However, the picture doesn't really fit the art style so I opted out of it.