Convener: Nick Moran
Participants: Sarah, Simon, Peter, (mid career designers) young designers, including Sarah & Ellan, including recent graduates, and a producer
Summary of discussion, conclusions and/or recommendations:
If we stretch the definition of Budget to include other constraints, including venue size, labour costs, truck space etc. then the answer is probably NO.
• Allow your inspiration to grow first, before thinking about budget too much
• Keep your collaborations pure and as honest as possible, with the director, other designers, and the producer – who mostly does want to help get your vision on stage
• And, make good use of every model showing, to sell your ideas to creative, producers and technical teams
• Find a good, creative production manager, who will be honest with you
And we talked about students in training to be designers – should students be taught to design to a budget? – probably not, but we think its useful for them to be taught to budget their designs.
• Too many un-realized projects results in to un-realizable real projects on graduation! (especially for students of lighting design – apparently)
• Practical projects with low budgets are good learning
• Finding out where to get stuff for free of very little also very good
Not very profound I know, but we had a good chat, shared some “war stories”, and decided that designers need to talk to each other more about budgets … and other stuff.
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Thursday, 4 February 2010
020 where do all good theatre sets go to die
Convener: Gary Campbell
Participants: Jenniffer Lunn, Naomi Kelly, David, Rajha Shakiri, Kate Lane, Samal Blak, Myro Wolff, Amy, Antonia, Andy
Summary of discussion, conclusions and/or recommendations:
The question was posed more as a catalyst for discussing sustainability in through design than a quest for the answer, however an answer was found within the first 5 minutes
Jennifer told us about salvage scenery in Amersham who will collect your set for a fee [ based on it’s weight and location ] and the recycle, reuse and re sell the items props and furniture usually at a low cost.
It was agreed that this is a valuable resource for any designer and that we’d all wished we knew about it before our last show.
But that in order to address the issue of sustainability – both economic and environmental something else was needed.
The suggestion of a shared storage space was made, however with this comes the administration of a building which is a strain on resources in it’s self.
The creation of a network of designers and producers that shares information about the stock they have and is willing to let others use it was suggested as a direction to explore.
Various formats for this have been discussed ranging from a theatre specific freecycle to setting up a dedicated ning, or just using existing networks like facebook.
There is a possibility of using google docs/maps to share inventories and locate a network of stores.
Also a messageboard was suggested run my vanilla
Email addresses were exchanged and I will be posting a message in the newroom for anyone else interested to sign up.
I will contact all of those who signed up and keep everyone up to date – my email is francisbarking at gmail.com
Participants: Jenniffer Lunn, Naomi Kelly, David, Rajha Shakiri, Kate Lane, Samal Blak, Myro Wolff, Amy, Antonia, Andy
Summary of discussion, conclusions and/or recommendations:
The question was posed more as a catalyst for discussing sustainability in through design than a quest for the answer, however an answer was found within the first 5 minutes
Jennifer told us about salvage scenery in Amersham who will collect your set for a fee [ based on it’s weight and location ] and the recycle, reuse and re sell the items props and furniture usually at a low cost.
It was agreed that this is a valuable resource for any designer and that we’d all wished we knew about it before our last show.
But that in order to address the issue of sustainability – both economic and environmental something else was needed.
The suggestion of a shared storage space was made, however with this comes the administration of a building which is a strain on resources in it’s self.
The creation of a network of designers and producers that shares information about the stock they have and is willing to let others use it was suggested as a direction to explore.
Various formats for this have been discussed ranging from a theatre specific freecycle to setting up a dedicated ning, or just using existing networks like facebook.
There is a possibility of using google docs/maps to share inventories and locate a network of stores.
Also a messageboard was suggested run my vanilla
Email addresses were exchanged and I will be posting a message in the newroom for anyone else interested to sign up.
I will contact all of those who signed up and keep everyone up to date – my email is francisbarking at gmail.com
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