Production Musings

Irrational Series Stage Design

// September 16th, 2009 // Stage Design

Ok, back to stage designs.  I’m not going to lie, this design wasn’t a big hit.  It definitely wasn’t a big hit for the poor couple that chose to get married on the stage with giant question marks in the background.  (But hey, I like to think that we helped strengthen their marriage – what better day to really question everything.  Right?) On a serious note, to that couple and all who get married at Blue Ridge, we do apologize that we are unable to change the stage to be more wedding friendly and elegant. There are just not enough hours in a Saturday!

The week of stage change, the whole team was in Chicago for Willow Creek’s Art Conference.  There wasn’t much we could do but we gave it our best shot.  Two of the stage design volunteers, Sawyer and Sue Scott, took it upon themselves to make several giant question marks matching the series graphic above.  Styrofoam insulation is the stuff.  It’s cheap.  It’s light.  It’s easy to work with.  After some tracing and many many hours of cutting 3 different sized question marks they were done.  Prior to leaving for Chicago, I changed a few colors and aimed the Color Splits where the question marks would appear.  When we returned to Lynchburg on Saturday, Todd and I spent several hours getting them hung, stood back, and said, “It is good.”  It was our best.  This was our last design with the giant riser built on stage.  I’d say it was split 50/50 of those where were sad/happy to see it go.

In the upcoming designs, we’ll be using Google Sketchup more.  I’m excited about the potential for designing virtually.