My Projects
This is my project page where you can see some of my most recent projects. You can take a look at the description to get a walkthrough of what I worked on. You can also click on the images to enlarge it and get a closer look!
Ordinary Days
For the production of Ordinary Days, I helped with taping out the stage layout in Saddleback College's Studio Theatre. This gave the production team an idea where platforms and steps would be placed at once we started Load-In. I was responsible for building a pair of steps which involved measuring and cutting down lumber, and assembling the lumber together with bolts, nuts, and washers to make the set of steps. Once the steps were loaded into the Studio Theatre and assembled along with the steel pipes (scaffolding) and flats, painted, I was then a part of a team to spackle paint some of the steel pipes to put the finishing touches to the stage for the performers to rehearse on and perform for an audience.
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Brick Wall painting
For this assignment, I learned with my Stagecraft class on color theory and how to use paint colors such as orange, red, and brown to create brick colors. Before the painting process, I used a flat piece of wood to paint it gray. From there I used a small, rectangular piece of wood to hit my brush against it which had dark gray paint to give the gray some air bubble texture from the gray cement. Once that was dried I used painters tape horizontally and vertically to create the rectangular shape of bricks. Once the layout was done, I began spackling orange, red, and brown together on a piece of flat wood with a sponge, repeating the process until I was content with the how my design and color looked. From there, I carefully removed the painter's tape and left my painting to dry before added shadow tinting and light texture on the bricks. This assignment taught me about color theory, and scenic painting design that is commonly used on stage.
She Kills Monsters
For the play She Kills Monsters, I was responsible to paper mache a foam head with an empty Pringles can hot glued to it to make a bong prop for one of the character's. The process was mixing water and glue together to make the sticky-like material that was used for soaking torn pieces of lunch bag paper onto the foam head and horns made of painter's tape. Once pieces were applied onto the prop and left to dried, it was then handed over to another team for painting.
Tibs
"Tibs" was the first assignment I did in my Stagecraft class and began my technical theatre journey! Tibs taught me how to use power tools such as a Compound Miter Saw (or commonly known as a "chop saw"), an impact driver, a drill, and a pneumatic staple gun to put together a mouse like item made from a piece of scrap wood. Using the Compound Miter Saw to cut the wood straight down and an angled cut, I got the body and head made. At the edge of where the pointed end was, I used a handheld staple gun to make Tibs' whiskers. From there, I used a Speed Square to measure and find the placement for Tibs' eye which was a bolt, a nut, and a washer. To make a hole for the bolt, I used an impact driver to get a clean drive through the wood. From there, I inserted the bolt from the opposite side and on the other side I placed a washer through the center of the bolt and added the hex nut which I screwed on with a C-wrench. The next step I used a drill the end of the scrap wood to drill in a screw and then add a piece of nylon rope to make a tail. The final part was using a band saw to cut a piece of Masonite to make an ear for Tibs' and staple it down with a pneumatic staple gun. This then concluded making Tibs!
