My Kiwi Bird Hot Air Balloon

It was rather hard to try choose something to make in props, as literally the world was my oyster and I was given the option to make anything I wanted. So i spent about half the day researching with Rose and she came across a really cool Art Director/Set Designer/Prop Stylist called Rhea Thierstein (click for her website) who has made prop and designed sets for one of my favourite photographers - Tim Walker. Whilst looking at her portfolio I came across a really cool hot air balloon bird, and I thought not I try make that!

Props

My time in props has been really good, I'm so happy I swapped my elective from design to props or i think i would be going out of my mind! There has been times in props though when I feel I'm just plodding along and this has shown me that I really like working in fast pace environment, but I guess it has also shown me that in the theatre business sometimes its all work, work, work or just plain sailing.

Tommy

Even though I have been in my elective props for the last 4 weeks,  I still have been venturing into my favourite place ... scenic! I was a bit gutted when I found out I wouldn't be working on Tommy as the way my timetable fell I was in props whilst the majority of the Musical Theatre prodctuion was being painted. However, the saying 'if you don't ask, you don't get' is so true as I asked Martin (head of props) if i could pop into scenic for some of the paint calls because I really wanted to use the spray gun on the back of the Atheneum stage wall.