Start of the Production Process of The Wedding Singer

At the Start of term me and my class attended a Production Meeting with the Director and Musical Director who was also co-directing the show The Wedding Singer. In this meeting the director used his Script to help him visualize scenes that were included in the show and then explained his ideas and concept to us as a whole. This helped us to gain a detailed idea of what they wanted the final set to look like. The whole was through the meeting we would all jump in and add ideas and discuss how certain aspects could be brought to life etc...
A massive aspect of this Production Meeting was for us to make/take notes throughout and to also visualize the Scale of the Production/Project that we were taking on and to be able to understand exactly what has to happen in the period leading up to the 3 Shows.

Before the meeting and weeks before we were told that as part of the course we would be marked on Model Box Making and Scale Model Construction which ties in with Set Design. We knew the first one of these would be one for The Wedding Singer so it was essential we made notes about the set during the meeting.

Then for a couple of weeks as a class we all got on with the research, development and then the design for a Set for The Wedding Singer. One of the 5 Designs would then go onto be constructed and used as the Final Outcome.

These lesson which happened mainly on a Thursday from 2pm-6pm (also we then carried on the work at home on the days we were not in college and also at other points in the week) would be dedicated to individual work and not class work so that we could complete the task within the deadline because we wanted to get onto the practical/construction stage as fast as possible.
When the task deadline came to a end we had the Director (Ashley) and the Musical Director (Dave) come into one of our Lessons to be talked through our Set Designs and how concepts came together to form our Final Design.
After all the Sets had been viewed they went away and made a decision on which design they wanted to be used, and when they got back I found out that they wanted my set design to be built as long as some changes and alterations were able to be made to it.
The Alterations that needed to be made included:

• Band needed to be seen/visible to the Audience.
• More Space made for the Dance Numbers.
• also aspects and design concepts for my other classmates design needed to be merged into my design.

The biggest problem for my set design was figuring out where to put the band, because originally I had them backstage and not visible because I didn't realize it was essential for them to be seen. This I had to think about leading up to the next session in which the modifications to the set design would be made and hopefully we would then have a model to go by when it came to construction.