Deviset set model

My second A-Level exam piece was a devised piece which was bases on a chosen picture. The under-lying story was based on a violinist killed his wife and child in a car accident whilst drink driving. This piece had to be the opposite of The Crucible (naturalistic) so my set had to be very minimalistic and symbolic. I looked at various Antonin Artaud techniques and chose  traverse stage to allow a sensory experience for our audience.

I looked at having a smashed up car bumper and front of a car at one end of the stage but decided that this was too obvious and only wanted to give the audience subtle suggestions of the accident.

I decided that skid marks were much more subtle and could be quite striking as they could also look like a pattern. I also thought they would be perfect for the masking in the room, as I chose a traverse stage and the audience were facing two bare walls.

I made some simple drawings of the stage on Google sketch up to start to put my ideas together. I originally decided of a clinical theme which would connote a hospital so bright white with splashes of hospital green. I was going to have a green carpet down the center of the traverse stage which would eventually be lifted up to reveal a road and the scene of the car crash. I changed my mind after deciding that I wanted a more striking colour scheme of Black white and grey with splashes of red. The red would suggest blood.

 

 

I Then created lots of sketches and ground plans and played around with my ideas before creating a scaled model.