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Sketches and Drawings

When we first started designing our sections, we started out with sketches on paper. We created three designs to show the directors. After we showed these to the directors, we started sketching out the plan of the auditorium on the table, drawing things to scale. This helped us to work out how much of the floor space we are taking up and how we can arrange things better. We also used this method to help us work out the number of seats we can fit in each section and to make sure the emergency exits had the required room.

After making these plans, we started learning how to do 3D drawings. We were given a previous model box to practice our 3D skills. We first started by drawing a massive cube and then splitting it up into 1m by 1m squares. This require a lot of thinking as the closer a square is, the bigger it is. We solved this by making the back wall as perfect squares, then using diagonal lines on the floor to create squares that will scale at the correct rate. We then used the back wall, and the ground to work out the walls. After this, we used the scale on the back wall and the vanishing point to scale everything up when it is brought forward.

After creating the model, the final drawing I had to do was a 2D drawing, also called a technical drawing. This drawing consists of drawing the model from 3 specific different angles: one from above, one from the front and one from the side. The drawing is made to scale and has to include all measurements on it. There are also specific notations used in the drawing. For instance, any staging has a cross on it to symbolise that it is staging. Another notation needed for technical drawings is the height of any set off the floor. There is also a box with information in it that we had to put on it. The box had to have the play’s name, the theatres name, the Director’s names, the thing being drawn, who designed and drew it, the date and the scale.

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Research

For this project, I was assigned the forest section. This seemed like an easy section to start with, but I still did research on forests and witching circles.

The first research was the forests. From these pictures I could see that most forests have very straight up trunks, which can be various widths. They also don’t have as many branches on the lower regions of the trunks. I used these ideas, along with the concept of stylised and symbolic meanings to create my own designs. I decided to use vertical uniformed tubes as the trunk to exaggerate the upright trunks in the real world. I also put the stylised trunks much higher up in the designs and also made them much more stylised to make them look more like beams in a building at the same time. I also noticed the grey and brown colours from the trunks and used that when colouring the trunks in my design, but making it a lot more stylised instead of naturalistic, but clearly showing the lines of the trunks by using the different colours. 

The second research I did was for the witching circles. During my research I came across these two main photos. They both show the witching circles in two totally different ways. The greener photo has a much more subtle witching circle that has been made into the grass using light. Whereas, the other picture is a clearly seen circle using twigs and branches to make the circle. Even though they are both radically different, they both have the culminating idea of a circle that is seen in the ground and is somehow shown, whether it is subtle or not. I took this idea and decided to have my own way of showing the circle. My idea was the have the circle raised above the ground and surrounded by trees.  This helped to create the circle whilst sticking with the ideas I got from the research.

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Paints Glorious Paints

Emulsion

Emulsion paints is a paint that is water based. The paint material is mixed with a mostly water liquid to create the paint. This has many advantages, which include: fast drying, cheap, easy to apply, easy to clean off tools and not much toxicity. 

Pigment

Pigments are solids that are broken down into grains. They are incorporated into the paint to create the colour. These can be dangerous, depending on the pigments used, as some are toxic. They are also normally considerably more expensive. 

Glaze

Glaze is added to paint to help change the chroma, value, hue or texture of a surface. When using glaze, the drying time can vary depending on the amount of paint medium added. The paint medium is the liquid added to the pigment. As paint is opaque, many different mediums are added to make it more translucent. Most mediums are liquid, but some are even solid or semi-solid. 

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Idiot's guide to model making: Process

http://youtu.be/17yEnX0U5zE

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research into pencil types and best uses

Typically what was used on set design would be HB and 2B pencils.

HB stands for "hardness" and "Blackness" so having the same amount imbedded into the lead means its typically used for generic usage, the best way to describe it is that its got normally has a yellow and black paint  coating with gold or white writing in it with a rubber on top.

A 2B pencil is more common in sketching as the blackness is much greater and easier to use for shadowing purposes and for generic sketching typically used for fine art, on set design it can be used to mark out any markings on floors, walls and even on small scale sets themselves.

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tags/set design

unit 78 design method 

unit 79 stage design for performance

unit 76 design drawing development

unit 80 stage model making

unit 73 scenic painting

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10/03/2014

Today we continued to look at the set for The Beano. At the end if the presentation to the actors on Thursday Robbie had told us that he wanted the cliff structures to be painted the same colour as the walls, and any thing that touched the floor should be the same colour as the floor. Evie and I were set the task of doing this to the set.

We began by giving all of the cliff structures a white base coat so that we could go over the cliffs in the blue colour more easily. Once we had given them a white base coat, ensuring that we left a bit of green at the front to keep then still resembling cliffs, we moved on to recreate the blue colour that was in the wall. To do this we mixed cerulean blue with some white. We had to ensure the paint we were using was watered down, because it was a pigment paint. When we had the blue colour made we stated to paint it ensuring that we used long strokes to make it neat. Once we had done one coat we put it against the wall to ensure that it was a similar colour if it was not we painted in more blue in order to make it match.

Here are all of the platforms painted blue;

Once we had painted the top of the platforms I sprayed the legs yellow with a black line on the bottom, so that it matched the bottom of the wall and blended in. Again to ensure that it was the same colour as the wall. Evie and I then moved in to paint the paths leading up to the platforms a similar colour to the floor. To do this we used a base colour of yellow ochre, which was really wet, and then we stippled in a small amount of van dyke and some light grey. This made a similar colour to the floor. After we had done this Alan sent us home.

Strengths

Today I think my strength has been the fact that I was able to select the correct colours to use when painting the platforms and the paths. I also feel that another strength has been the use if the painting skills I learnt last week to effectively paint the platforms.

Weaknesses

I still feel I rely on Alan to guide me in the correct direction sometimes and I feel I need to become more autonomous in my work.

Plan of Action 

Completely finish the set and give it some TLC and get the tech drawings finished so that construction can start building the set.

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Set design day 18

Today I caught up with what the others had been doing whilst I had missed a day for my guildhall interview. Before leaving on Thursday I came up with a design of what we could have put on one of the walls and made a model of it.

When I came in today it had been tweaked a bit but was being used for the design in the model box. Robbie was planning to have a meeting with Alan after we'd all left so we will find out his thoughts tomorrow.