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The Grapes of Wrath 3
Published: 2007-12-27 17:55:57 +0000 UTC; Views: 21476; Favourites: 339; Downloads: 0
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My finished set design for SDSU's production of "The Grapes of Wrath." The concept was a depression era collage of textures and images to create an evocative environment for the production. The truck was a built piece, the fender wells and front grille were the only two elements that we ordered.Related content
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really cool work you might like some of my starting designs looking for builbers
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Wow your an awesome designer. Where did you go to school
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This is beautiful! Reminds me of a scene from Mulholland Drive!
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beautiful! i'm currently reading the Grapes of Wrath in class, classic, indeed
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This is really amazing!!! I act and love working on beautiful sets like this! Without designers like you the theatre world wouldn't be anywhere near as wonderful. I love it!
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W.o.w... now that is impressive- you really brought out the emotion in that set- you don't even have to watch the production to know what it is all about! Amazing piece of work
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Wow!! That's great! I'd like to work on theatre or films... but as director. I think it really rules. Go on and never give up!! >w<
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ugh horrible memories of the book at school, beautifully set stage.
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Reading books at school seems to ruin things for everyone, doesn't it? Ditto with Shakespeare.
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haha most definitely! Although Shakespeare's pretty good on your own time
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Beautiful design, it really gets your concept across. Keep up the good work!
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Thank you for that comment
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It looks interesting, but the pic is so small, I can't make out any details...
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Try clicking on it for a larger view?
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I load every pic by default@full size...
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Oh wow did you take part in making the set?? I used to do theatre design I'm kind of understand the concept , but due to the lack of time, money and resource we did the best we could xD I wish I took some pictures now
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Yup it was a pretty hands-on project. In addition to designing it, I was by day, a peon assisting the scenic artist in the shop. Ah graduate school.
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Oh you did get some help somebody from some shop with the making then? That must have been costly? 
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Well, it was a university production, so it's somewhat exempt from that rule. The show was mostly built by graduate students working as assistants in the shop. The safety of educational theatre is that productions are not often bound by commercial viability, giving the students room for growth and learning.
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Oh thats nice
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Wow its very powerful. Set design deserves more credit than its given, this just sets the GoW mood so well. Love this alot.
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Thanks! Got so tired of the same set with a cyc or sky... seemed more appropriate to just obliterate it completely.
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1930's dust bowl era... the signs are all cultural references to the Great Depression, sort of like highway billboards on the way to California.
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By any chance was the original novel by Steinbeck? It rings a bell.. We studied Of Mice and Men for English Lit and it was set around the same period.
I love everything about this set. Makes me wish that I could have seen the show! I think you captured everything here perfectly. Very well done. I can only imagine how much work this must have taken
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Interesting.
What does the stage structure look like?
It almost looks like the stage has a wire grid although the exposed electrics could just be standard lighting battens.
Is the piece flown or a permanent install to the deck?
I build theaters rigging systems by trade so it is always interesting to see how they are used.
And of course:
Excellent work.
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This is a university proscenium theatre with a standard fly system. The back wall of the set is 3 walls with openings and doors, built of structural steel with wood frames and signs attached over the surface, and is tied both to the platforms and deck, and spotted to the gridiron above to pull it rigid. The exposed electrics are simply electrics pipes flown in very close to the set, using the full stage blackout upstage of the electric and pulling the borders to mask just the battens cause it to feel like a wire grid. Thank you for the insightful comment!
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beautiful job! i love the lack of color in the background. good texture.
my school did this show a couple of years ago and i loved it. our show was a lot simpler.
and congragts on the daily deviation. it's good to see theatre work get the recognition it deserves.
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Thank you so much! It seemed an appropriate approach, the single set actually minimized having to deal with the multiple locations.
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i can see that. good work. how did you make the car?
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There's the truck close-up
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that's really cool. you obviously have a bigger budget than we do! although i liked ours too. we made our truck out of random bits of stuff that also got used as props for the rest of the show- like an apple basket, a stool, etc. the real pain about it, though, was that we had to have people push it around stage.
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