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Create a Health and Safety breakdown of all materials techniques and processes. Use materials, techniques and processes with a good understanding of Heath and Safety.

Safety with design has to be thought about when designing the set. Here are some hazards below.

These include, but are not limited to:

■ unsafe structures resulting from poor design; ■ use of poor quality or unsuitable materials (sharp or

unfinished edges, protruding nails etc); ■ poor construction;

■ increased fire risk from the use of unsuitable materials;

■ hazardous substances;

■ manual handling difficulties caused by heavy and bulky scenery items etc;

■ trips and slips on uneven or unsuitable floor surfaces, uneven steps or stair treads;

■ inadequate edge protection and/or handrails on open edges;

■ failure to provide handrails;

■ falling objects (eg scenery or lamps inappropriately suspended or poorly rigged);

■ electrical shock or burns from unsafe electrical equipment, or inadequate earthing;

■ entrapment and entanglement in unguarded or unprotected mechanical devices;

■ visual and/or special effects;

■ use of glass on or in the set;

■ use of scaffold structures;

■ hazards associated with seating provision. 

People in charge for the safety of a production set or scenery are the producers and the designers as well as the construction team.

Use your knowledge gained in your research to create design elements for the stage.

Attend Production Meetings and inter departmental meetings making clear contributions.

Notes from concept meeting.

Today we were introduced to the director and other key members of the theatre who are involved with the Christmas Show this year, the production this year for the christmas show is Alice and Wonderland with a twist. This was our first production meeting for the production. Below are my notes from the meeting. 

Production meeting - Alice and Wonderland

- In the round, three sides of the auditorium 

- Frame classic text, Adrian Mitchell’s version. Modern version.

- Jabberwokey is technical

- White rabbit running around auditorium

- Morden Alice, going into family and family are on technology, been bullied lost a shoe and being ignored. She then has her own convosation.

 - Cables, monitors, set comes together to make the Jw she breaks through by pulling the plug.

- Look of the show, Sense of wonder as soon as audience in theatre. Silks and trapeze, red queen based on lady gaga. 

- Basic script used as a starting point.

- Set style - TBC

- Elongated and long big hats, stripy over the top. 

- Use big puppet or big structures that can be used by actors like the cat. 

- JW - wow moment must be dealt with at the end like a villan made up of parts of the set. 

- Natural like wood then things that invade the space. Tech vs organic. 

- Multiple use of sets and structures.

- Wonky chess board as floor?

- Physical show

- Key elements, hanging, moveable set, flown sets

- Casting by the end of next week.

- 5 + magical for 5 years and up

- Budget - £7800

- Tuesday 9th December - 14th, two Saturday 2:00 & 19:30, Sunday 5:00pm, 16th - 21st second week

Tickets 

Con 7.50

Adults 10

Fam 25 - 2 adults 2 children

Group discount - £5pp

Tickets on sale beginning of November, week after half term

Research the characteristics of design materials, techniques and processes.

This is a list of how the design process works. I have also listed some materials used to the jobs.

Read script - to know the story

Read script again - details, places, mood

Read script again - more detail and real verses implied (what’s real or not)

Directors concept

Research - visual

Research - text

Research - real life

Tangent research

Mind-maps/sketches

Initial ideas

Director feedback - if they ok it fine, if not back to research

Rough card model - not to scale

Director feedback - if they ok it fine, if not back to initial ideas

Scale model - 100% accurate - White card model

Director feedback - if they ok it fine, if not back to rough card model

Full colour scale model - fully detailed

Director feedback - if they ok it fine, if not back to initial ideas

Production meeting - show the rest of the production team

Technical drawings - ground plan, each item top, front then side elevations

Construction given drawings

Material orders

Build the set

Paint the set

Model presentation to the cast

Set introduction - Health and Safety

Finishing touches

Tech rehearsals - take notes, fix and snag

Dress rehearsals - fix and snag, photographs

Opening night - production week

Fix and snag

Materials Include:

Paper of any size

Pencils

Pens

Filmo

Rubber

Set Square

Cutting Matt

Knife

Poster Paints

Paint Brushes

Rosco Paint Sample Packs

Wood

Card

Adhesives including contact glue, activators, super glues and PVA

Today we had a late call of 4 pm so that we could get in a prep all of the paint that would be required for the painting tonight. Today we had planed to spray all of the platforms to their final colour, paint the pier in its final colour and then base the floor ready for the over night paint call. 

I started of the night by painting the pavilion, whilst the rest of the group either sprayed the platforms or started work on painting the ramp. To paint the pavilion I used two different shades of brown which I applied to the metal and them blended together to give a wood look. I felt this was an effective technique because it not only gave it the look of wood, but it also helped to make it look old and ruined. Doing the blending was mostly easy, however in the tight corners it was hard to get the correct blend, but that won't be a problem because in theory the audience will not be able to see that. 

Here is a picture of the pavilion painted brown; 

After I had finished the pavilion Alan then asked me to paint the stairs from the pier onto the pavilion in a similar way blending both the browns together. I started doing it on top of the pier, but then realised that it would be easier to remove them from the pier to stop myself from getting brown paint on the already painted pier. I felt that again painting the stairs in this way was good because it gave the set a flow and it also helped them to fit on top of the pier, because it look wood like. 

Here is a picture of the stairs; 

Once I had completed the stairs I then helped the sprayers finish of spraying by raging off on the side structure legs in order to stop them from having a running paint look. Once all of the side structures and the ramp were painted we moved on to start basing the floor. To base the floor we used a mixture of three grey emulsions that had been mixed in the prepping session earlier. To make it easier for ourselves we used rollers. We started at the back of the auditorium and worked our way back towards the seating bank. In about an hour we had based the entire floor in grey ready for its final paint job tomorrow. 

Here is the set in its current state with all of the structures painted and the floor primed; 

Strengths 

Today I feel my team work skill have been a strength because I have been able to work within the design team happily with no dispute to successfully complete all of the jobs we had set out to complete. I also feel my knowledge of paint techniques has helped when I have been independently painting parts of the set. 

Weaknesses 

The one weakness I feel I had was the speed at which I painted the pavilion. I feel I could have done that a lot quicker and I could have then gone on to assist other people in the team with jobs that required more people. 

Plan of Action 

Today we were called in at 3 pm to continue work on The Beano set. When we got in we were asked to draw up another list of things that needed to be completed before Friday. Once we had drawn up the list we went and started to prep for the night. We had decided that tonight would be spent priming the metal and basing the wood of the side structures as well as priming the pavilion ready for there final paint job tomorrow evening. 

After the actors had left we moved into the auditorium and started work. Myself and Harry degreased all of the metal on the side structure, with the Meth Spirit ensuring that for safety reasons we wore masks to stop the toxic fumes getting into are body. Once we had degreased all of the side structures we started priming them with the white primer. We started on the stage right side and worked are way around all of the structures priming the metal. Whilst we were doing this Jake and the Fermors were basing the wood and the scrim on the structures with the white emulsion and Tom and Luke were working on priming and basing the ramp and the stairs. 

Once all of the metal on the side structures had been primed I moved on to prime the pavilion. Before I primed it I had to degrease it because it had not yet been degresed. Whilst I was degreasing Alan started priming so that it would get done quicker. After the pavilion was completed and went and assisted the basing of the ramp. Once the ramp was completed and all of the paint brushes were washed we were finished for the day. 

Strengths 

I feel I have been able to use my painting skills learnt when we the did the scenic paint theory to help base and prime the set. 

Weaknesses

I don't feel I have had any weaknesses today. 

Plan of Action