Carrousel

Carrousel has to be one of the most stress free productions I have ever worked on. So hats of to my friend and head scenic artist of this production, Rosé Sims!

The designer went to Motley, this is a rather prestigious and well known designer course in London. The designers from Motley actually don't get a a degree but the quality of work they produce is amazing the course is highly thought of. His model box was pristine and beautiful but the direction he ended up giving us was to make all the set pieces look rather worn down. Ugh it can rather annoying when designers give you vague references. We ended up replicating his model piece to a tee and then had to get the carpenters to come in and bash it all up!

For carrousel we only had two paint calls, and they were on Saturday nights which was rather odd. During paint calls you have to work so quick as you only have that allocated time on stage to get all your touch ups and notes done. (Notes are either from stage management, the direction, the designer asking for things to be altered, added etc)
We didn't get many notes though, just that the actors snapped the benches in half (this was rather annoying as they where told not to dance on them as they weren't reinforced!) and the other main job was to touch up the floor.

The floor was one of the more challenging pieces of set in this production. It was RCS's first ever revolve, the actors had to dance on it with bare feet and it had to look like rubble.
In the end we used foam pieces, with a certain type of glue to stick them to the floor as PVA made the foam go all crunchy and we had to make sure the paint was really thin we painted them brown.