Progress

Put in a really late night and we have a functional frame.

03/25/13

So set has not been moved. I don't know why. It's still sitting right where I left it. I am not amused. Now I really have my work cut out for me.

03/22/13

We move the set Sunday. We built the last of the stairs, minus one bracket. We were only one short. Car's tire went flat today. Big pain.

Progress

03/21/13

We are at a stand still right now. We need more wood and We can't move forward with the project till we get it. The janitorial staff was suppose to move our set to UES today but they never knew of this. Now it's up to us to do it on the weekend. I'm not free Saturday. So much to do, so little time.

03/19/13

Today we build stairs for the set. It was alot of figuring to get the math right. Hopefully everything goes swimmingly.

03/18/13

I'm going to make a post that is unrelated to my project. I performed in the coffee house this weekend and I thought to myself all the things I'll do next time to make it even better but then I relized that was my last coffee house.

In the coffee house I figured out how to reflect a show with a set and how to make a set for a budget by putting on "The Phantom of the Opera" for forty of my own dollars. I had dry ice and chains and candles and of course a boat.

             Building from 2D to 3D

Most of my week was spent making the boat which was a combonation of the slay from The Christmas Carol, Garbage bags, cardboard and wood scraps I found throughout the school.

              To answer how to reflect a show

You have to actually see Phantom to understand but basically it is a mysterious and dark story.

Every performance I've ever seen has been accented by blue light. This is what I used. I also made use of the skeletol structure of our Anything Goes set as a base for the underground river in the desired scene from Phantom. I also used fog to set the mood

                Building for a budget

I used Kitty litter buckets that I cut down to 9 inches and put a garbage bag in for my smoke to come out of. I also put a candle on top to hide it.

I bought about 15 candles (battery powered)

2 cans of flat black spray paint
17 pounds of dry ice

total being roughly $40

A Magician never reveles his secrets so before I give everything away I'll upload the video later this week.

3/14/13

I'm working on a slight side project for the coffee house. There will be lights, fog, and a boat. I'm sure all will go as planned. Now I need to find dry ice.

Progress

03/12/13

Staying till 8 to work on the set!

03/11/13

I have to make a new first question for my project because 'how to build a weight bereing set is narrow and has already been answered. Unfortunately I don't have many ideas at the moment but we'll see when I have some time to ponder. Today my father is calling about the sailor suits and hats. We are hoping to rent these costums but if we need to buy we will do that too but for the right price. We are not going to get officer caps because they are way too expensive for what we're doing. AND ANTONIA MADE A PERFECT CUT ON THE SET! We are not working on the set today.

The picture on the top of this is the idea. The middle uniform is a vietnam era naval sailor uniform. They are just like the ones from WW2 but made from a heavier material. That's what we're going to be wearing.

I just found some pretty sweet lights online. Hopefully they will work with our set. Push-on lights are good too.

03/07/13

Work schedual has just been put together. We have set deadlines for everthing. We want the general frame all put together by next sunday.

03/06/13

Yesterday, we built the platform frames. They were pretty easy to put together. We are done for this week now. I have grey cast rehearsal now and the Band concert is tomorrow night and this weekend it thes-fest. We will begin construction again next week.

03/05/13

I've got some stats that I have to upload. Hirsch and I found then lowest price for wood and it's being delivered to the school this afternoon. It's going to be a late night building this thing. We hope to cut the wood for the main frame of the second story today. We'll see how far we get in one week because we have alot to do in alittle time. The band concert is this thurseday and I'm commited to thes-fest this weekend so Saturday is off the table. It's tough. Unfortunately there really isn't any good time to do this thing.