CCAD Production Design 2016 Degree Show

Welcome to the CCAD Production Design for Stage and Screen 2016 Degree Show. Here there will updates about the degree and work-in-progress by the undergraduates. We hope you will enjoy the upcoming. If you have any question feel free to message...

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Juliette Sky - Red Brick Road set concepts

A combination of digital, modeling and traditional drawing techniques make up the concept designs of Oz for red brick road.

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Emma Train - Plinth and Plaque for ‘Spectacle of Steel’

The plinth that the plaque will sit on has been cut and the plaque textured, now the main bones of the ‘spectacle of steel’ are completed the details can now be created. 

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Courtney Russell - Cogs for Blood castle

After painting foam cogs bright and attractive colours they are ready to be placed on the set, once the blue and green bricks have been painted to look textured.  

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Becky Nicholson - Marking out the set

Becky is marking out were her set pieces will need to be placed in Rodolfo’s laboratory. Soon it will be filled with varying set pieces. 

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Kirsty Marriott - Creating the walls of Krulshard’s cave

Using a combination of chicken wire, hessian, and plaster Kirsty is forming the sides of the cave to emulate naturally formed rock. 

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Jeanette McCaffery - Designs for attendees in Masquerade

Here Jeanette is colouring her costume designs for masquerade attendees in promarker. 

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Holly Philip - Dessert Parlour

Come in, sit down and relax in the a colourful yet classic dessert parlour. A Victorian styled parlour with added sweetness with candy motifs drizzled on top of the Victorian delight. Modern colours married together with the style and sophistication of the Victorian make a bright and fashionable space for the public to treat themselves in. Holly hopes to make a set model of the parlour room, fully coloured with some of the final designs on display.

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Emma Jones - Welcome to Night Vale Set designs

Emma is working on the world for her characters and is colouring some of these set designs.

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Sophie Harwood - Painting props

Sophie's construction is well under way and in this picture we see her painting a prop in her set.  Erzulie

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Juliette Sky - Red Brick Road

Continuing her the work at University on the Production Design for Stage & Screen BA(Hons) Degree. Juliette's work is an adaptation on The Wizard of Oz called Red Brick Road of Oz with a slightly darker twist.

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Dean Hammersley - Digital Modeling

Dean is experimenting with different compositions and textures in 3-D Studio Max for his ‘Witch and Wizard’ project. 

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Jessika Croft - Finishing designs

Jess is beginning to put the finishing touches to her designs for 'Return to Wonderland’ before starting the construction side of her project.  

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Emma Train - Spectacle of Steel

Being born and bred in Teesside, Emma is very involved in the local community and is passionate about her home town in Teeside. When the news of the Teesside Steel works shutting down was announced, Emma was devastated at the news and decided to turn her feelings of out rage into an expressive art piece. ‘Spectacle of Steel’ is a celebration of the Teeside Steel industry and the iconic structures it helped create. 

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Jemma Chisholm - Marking out canvas

Jemma’s work will include a large painted scenic backdrop, it will represent the emotions and distorted perception of someone with Dementia within a care facility. In this picture she is marking out where the frame will go around the canvas. 

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Courtney Russell - Escape from Blood Castle

It’s crazy, wacky, and fun for the family! Put your mind in a spin and test your skills as you try to escape from Blood Castle a place of backwards logic, bewildering colours, and tricky puzzles that will entertain and delight children above the ages of 5. Based around the concept of children’s puzzle books this large set will be the perfect stop off for any children coming to the show. 

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Jeanette McCaffery - Masquerade

Jeanette will conjure up a visual delight that all should see by taking the rich and sumptuous aesthetic of art nouveau with the venetian mastery of mask making to produce masks for the song ‘Masquerade’ from the critically acclaimed west end show ‘Phantom of the Opera’ from Musical royalty Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber. 

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Becky Nicholson - City of Masks

Stravaganza: City of Masks which is set in the alternative world of the city of Bellezza, strongly based off renaissance Venice. The set focused on will be Rodolfos laboratory which is described as a mix between a laboratory and library and a workshop where many strange and magical things happen in the name of science. Becky will create a large scale set based around this magical space.

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