Stage Floor

I wanted an outdoor texture for the floor, so I used Ballast medium cinders and fine turf earth. I didn't want to use grass as it would be too bright, and I wanted the dancing area to stand out. I think the floor looks okay, but it could have been more effective, a stone floor might have looked nicer.

Adding the boxes to the model.

The first photo shows the model almost complete. The second photo shows the construction. The boxes are not accurate, therfore the sightlines are affected. I should have worked more acurately to esure the sightlines were correct.

The Theatre Model Box.

These images show the base and proscenium arch. This was my starting point. I did not realise that the boxes should be included, but now I realise they effect sightlines, so they need to be included. Missing these parts out caused me a lot of problems. In hindsight I would have added on the width of the wings to these pieces, as it would improve the structure, and would have looked nicer. Also the foam board I used for the proscenium arch was bowed, but it was the only foamboard available. Using it caused a lot of problems when I did add the boxes.

The model of the dancing area.

The third photo shows the base. It is made of foam board and 6mm doweling. As the picture shows there are two holes in the sides of the elipse. Originally I wanted to have poles here, but I decided that they would limit the audiences view.

The second photo shows the front part of the banner. The relief effect was created using polyfiller (the texture of joghurt), piped through a syringe. I got this idea from David Neat's book. In my sketch model the banner was made with one single sheet of paper. However, even after scoring into the mount board, it would not bend into place. So I had to cut it into sections, this was difficult to put together.

The fifth photo shows the steps. To build them I used David Neat's book, they are made from mount board and are a 1:25 scale of the stairs in my house. The rise is 6mm, the tread is 10mm.

The final photo is a sketch model of the theatre.

The first photo is the model complete. I'm happy with the bottom of it. However the banner could have been made better. For the real thing I would want bright lights around the banner, to make it more fairground like. The colours I used were: Bright red, Royal blue, Bright yellow, Light Green, Gold, White, Black and Burnt Umber.

The model of the dancing area.

Sketch Model Continued

These images are my 1:25 sketch model with 1:25 scale people, roughly 5ft 5'' and 5ft 11''. They contain a kind of band stand where Ashputtel and the Prince dance, some have the helter skelter in. I think the helter skelter would have to be a flat. I have removed the two front stalls from my original sketch, as there isn't a lot of room.

I think this design looked good on paper, but it doesn't work well on the model. I think the weakest aspect is the backdrop, as most of it is hidden, and there is a huge gap at the top. Also I dont like the trees, they don't look very strong, so I am going to refer back to Arthur Rackham's work to improve the backdrop.

Sketch Model

This is the backdrop roughly to scale, from two different angles.