When I started thinking about what the set was going to be this fall, I had a certain criteria that I wanted to meet.
1 - The set needed to feel like it encompassed the whole stage. We have a 30' section of solid wall in the center of our stage. The sides of the stage is covered in windows 40' in each direction. This creates certain challenges when designing sets. We open the curtains at the end of each service and are sensitive to blocking the view.
2 - I wanted it to be versatile in it's looks. I wanted to be able to go from a polished saturated color look to a raw industrial look.
3 - It needs to be versatile in its location. This set will take us all the way to Christmas so I wanted something that can change from week to week if we want it to.
I knew from the beginning that I wanted 4 towers that would be constructed from steel studs and covered in Coroplast. The exact design of these towers was up in the air until the last minute. The design evolved from having multiple opacities of Coroplast to having a 58" plasma in each one. The structural design changed as well through several generations of drawings.
We landed on the simple cross beam design. This felt simple and elegant, although it was difficult to actually build. So we decided that two sides of the towers would have the cross beam pattern and the other two sides would have a simple horizontal beam pattern. This became the plan until we ran out of time. So the center two towers have 2 sides with the cross beam and 2 sides with the horizontal pattern and the two outside towers only have the horizontal pattern. They ended up being 16' X 4'.
In the end, I do wish they were all the same but they still look great. I am excited to see what we do the next couple months with these. We already have some really cool plans for the upcoming week, so be sure and check back for pictures and videos.
