TSM Project 2008 - Raked Revolve

First Ideas.

I have only seen a few plays and two musicals in my whole life, so the ideas ill be coming up with are just going to be completly from my imagination. With this disadvantage I have still been able to come up with a few ideas and a final project that I want to do.

The first thing I wanted to try and create in the Ath was a flying person for the performance "Peter Pan". Not just one that flies from one side of the stage to the other, but when the actor actually flies out to the audience and is able to control the height they are flying at themselves. The health and safety issues and risk assesments would in my eyes be alot of trouble when it is just easier to make the person fly across the stage. The main pieces of equipment needed for this would be a channel track, hanging clamps, 1/8" aircraft cable, 1" rope, a special head block, tram and traveling blocks, a floating block, aircraft cable, a cable end stop, 3/8" cord, a floor pulley, a live-end pulley and a dead-end pulley. I was really wanting to do this but felt that other peoples ideas were a bit more challenging, so I decided to keep my options open and keep thinking about things.

I then thought of "The Wizard Of Oz" and its yellow brick road. For this I was thinking of having a spiral staircase going from centre stage round to one of the fly floors a that also dissapeared when the actors would walk up it. For this the staircase would have been built with metal and no welding atal. The main equipment i would have needed here would be a pipe coupling, washers, newel post section of PVC, 3/4" plywood tread, 3/4" pipe bluster, 2" pipe nd 2 1/2" PVC column, 3/4" plywood bracket and a pipe flange. To help with the stairs actually disappearing with the actor I would use something similar to a chain hoist. However, I felt like this idea was far too complex for me and quite a few other people are wanting to do their projects using staircases.

Finally I was in one of my Lighting Design classes and my teacher mentioned something about a revolve stage. After that, I soon realised what my project was going to be. Enjoy the making of a revolve on a raked stage.