Dance Show : building and sourcing the music disks. A big piece of the set, was the inclusion of 2 heaps of music disks, hung at the back of the stage. These disks had the ability to move in and out of the stage should it be necessary. Before we started building, we had to discus how we were going to cover the disks. From previous discussions with directors, we knew that they wanted the disks to be covered in a shinny cover. Our first idea was sticky back plastic. As we could lay it over each disk and stuck it down easily. One of the images above shows some research into this. Once these were ordered we could begin on the frames. For the frames we used some 1x1 and 2x1 pieces of steal beams. We cut and grinned each piece to the correct length, and used used the 1x1s round the edge, and the 2x1 to allow, any joints between two prices of wood to be stuck down. Every 4 ft of a frame intended to be classed, there must be a metal beam in the frame, as without this, the wood can become bendy and much weaker than it should be. All that was need now, was for the frame to be welded. As we are young and 'unskilled' we were unable to used the welder ourselves, instead our tutor did it for us. When using a welder however, one must wear and welders helmet, this covered the entire face to prevent any sparks from making contact, but also has a special visor, which darkens automatically when one welds. This is important as the light produced from the welder is so bright that it can blind someone. Therefore, the person welding should always shout 'eyes' before welding to allow those within the vicinity to change there field of view. Once welded, the areas welding are extremely hot and should be left for a good while before contact is made. Now that the frame was cooling we began on the woodwork. On each frame there were 3 disk, with diameters of 8ft, 6ft and 4ft. We began with the 8ft's, as the were the biggest, for these we used some 0.5 thick 8x4 sheets of wood. We used this as we didn't want to use anything too thick as it would weigh down the disks and make then extremely heavy, and if they were too think the would flop everywhere. We then measured a centre line in the middle of each sheet of wood. Using a giant compass, which was set at 4ft as that was the radius of the circle, we created two semi circles of either piece of wood. Then to finish off each half, we used a jigsaw to cut the curve of the circle. We then repeated this process for the 4ft and 6ft circles. Once cut, we first positioned each the 8ft pieces on the frame. Once happy with the positioning, we clamped the wood down ensuring that it didn't move out of place. Then we used a 0.2 cm drill, to drill some holes though the wood and into the frame itself. We then screwed these down, making sure that the screw was flush up against the wood, this ensured that there were no bumps in the plastic when it was applied. This process was repeat for all 6 disks on both frames. We then used some wet tape to cover the any seals left in the wood. This tape works by sticking when it introduced to water. Therefore being very flush against the given surface. Now we could apply the plastic. We cut this into squares which we applied and then used a scalpel to cut round the edges of the wood. On major issue we had that was dust and dirt was caught under the plastic therefore creating bumps, this was something that we couldn't avoid and had to deal with. Another issue we had was that the biggest disk slightly flapped meaning we had to apply yet another beam of metal behind to prevent this. We then cut some smaller plastic Black circles which we applied to the middle of each circle to give it more of disk look.











