Creation of Props

Wednesday 18th november

We are still creating props and having weekly meetings with mrs Kent the client in the music room. We have been making a puppet box for a small child that will be one of the actors to get in and out of easily and safely, I places think wood in the box to make it safer and wouldnt harm the child.
For the box we used it was an old box stored in the drama office, that wasnt needed but had currently been used in a school production a while back. When we recieved the box it was just a box with no lid. So We went to the tech department and cut the top of to make it a lid and sand it so it was smooth.
Though we couldnt just push the box on stage so we wanted wheels on the bottom of it so it was easy to move. But i came up with an idea that we could make a tray kind of thing with wheels on that so the box could just fit on it. Though we had problems so we had to come up with an idea with out it slipping it of. So i decided we could put corners up on the corners of the tray so the box would fit on nicely.

Though for another prop we need to make a laundry box, So talking to the client, the three of us came up with an idea of using the puppet box as the laundry box but just having it the opposite side. So what I did was Paint over the black strips on one side of the box so it was all 1 colour whilst Sian printed the logo and letters we designed.
By using the same box it ment we saved money, space and wood so it was a very good idea that i was proud of.
When the words and logo had been printed of and the paint had dried we glued the letters on and and painted them, sian and i did this together.

I feel as this is quite a hard job that has to be done in a time limit, i think its best you work as a team and me and sian are doing well working together, As we havnt be distracted yet and are getting everything done.

Another Prop we had to create was a dog cage, this was quite simple, all we had to do was make it out of wood and make it look old. So we cut out loads of wood in 2 differnt sizes and differnt amounts of each wood . We had to make a rectangler base at first so we could hammer the wood in to place. I found this easy because it didnt matter as much if it was jaggerd as it is suppose to look old and horrid.
When we had finished we Spray painted it a metal colour. I also came up with an idea as this has to be wheeled on stage we could just place it on the tray we used earlia. It was the same size as the box so it was replacable easily behind stage.

(The pictures at the top is the planning i did of the dog cage, puppet box and and laundry box.)