#unit 79

i used this while i was ordering and costing for fabric when i was ordering red crepe fabric for the swags in the dance show, i also used this for costing the gold larma for the curtains.

during the get in we were in charge on making sure the construction team were building the set correctly. while we did this we had to weather the beams down and stain them. i was part of the team weathering all the beams while instructing the crew on how to build the band platform and the beams coming out of the walls. i also instructed the rigging team that came in to put up all the ropes safely. they also had to be instructed on how the cladding was going on because they were trying to put in straight hand rails but because the barn was meant to be abandoned i had tell them to put them on a strange angle. after that i went and helped them with the wall cladding we ended up doing them the other way round so it would fit it was a shame cause we didn't get the effect we wanted but it was still good.

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.