Thursday, May 22, 2014

Tarzan the biggest set of all

Being one of two boys in our family (not counting our dad because he works) I am charged with the
job of creating and building the set for Tarzan. There is so much that goes into it so I'm gonna start at the top of the list. The design: We wanted to really immerse the audience into the jungle with this set and once we put our minds to it there  was no turning back. I'm was gonna try and explain the feeling we wanna get but instead I'm gonna show you this picture. Imagine that you split the stream in half and put the sides on each side of the stage. yeah if your thinking about it the right way this will be the coolest set ever. Its then gonna rap around the front of the stage about 8 feet high. We are then gonna have a  waterfall in the back right corner and the tree house that Tarzan's parents built in the audience a little on the stage right side. So that is our design. We drew it out to scale so we could really see what it would look like and I'm so happy with the outcome.  Next we need the wood for the whole thing. What we do is make a list of everything we would need from screws to latches to paint to anything you can imagine. Usually that would cost upwards of 20,000 dollars! We do not have this much money since we are a charity, so we go to Lowe's or Home Depot and they donate most of these products. This really means a lot to all to of us  - that people in our community are so kind to our troops.
        Since we have limited time in our  actual venue, we are forced to to start the set at home. We are planning on cutting all of our wood we need  so that when we get there we can just put it together and be done. That makes it sound easy, but it's really not - this is gonna be the hardest part all all. The building of the set is mainly just me and Jewel, and we get help here and there but the bulk of it falls on us. I'm  really fine with that because then  I can stand back and look at the set and say yeah I just built this whole set from scratch!   

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