More Models

More examples of models built for various classes.

This castle was built for my model building class. We were learning how to use Photoshop to help us in model making. It's based on a sketch I had used the semester earlier when taking Photoshop.




Private Lives
by Noël Coward.
Act II. I do not have a model of Act I, as we only had to build a model for one of the acts and I wanted to try and build a stained glass window. We were assigned no specific theatre space.

Full set


Detail of window and stage left.

Closeup stage right.

Buried Child

by Sam Shepherd
As difficult as I discovered making a model look old and run down is, I really enjoyed it. One of the earlier models built for Scene Design II at SDSU. We were again assigned no specific theatre, just the generic one for our class.

Full set

Stage left

Stage right

Scissor Sisters Concert

This is a design for a concert tour for the group Scissor Sisters. For Collaborative Studies class, our group consisted of one scenic designer, one lighting designer, one costume designer and one technical director. It was an interesting process, especially as at this point I had never before been to a rock concert in my life. So, unlike my classmates, I had no idea what I was doing! Unfortunately, my technical director couldn't offer any advice as he'd never been to a rock concert either. Our group decided to go in the direction of an old, dilapidated theatre, with a Moulin Rouge type feel. It is a traveling show, it was the technical directors job to make sure the set and lighting could all be broken down to fit into the trucks for transport.

Full set

The 3 platforms in the back (with the lavender curtains beneath them) were audience seating areas--for very high priced tickets! These were to make up for some of the audience space being taken away by our stage jutting out into the audience as it does. The 2 screens on either side are for projections of close ups of the band members.

Floor detail

The platforms which form part of the scissors are for the band. There are footlights along the edge of the stage, as well as rope lighting in the floor which frame out the scissor shape.

The windmill

The windmill does actually spin throughout the concert, there are lights along each of the blades. The colored "shapes" on the proscenium are all painted in glow-in-the-dark paints.

Class Projects

The following are models that I built as class projects. Somewhere I have pictures of older models, eventually I'll get around to putting them up as well. There are several of them, so it'll take a few posts to put them all up.

Unfortunately, I did not take these pictures at the time of building the models, rather I took them much later. Depending on the model it was up to 5 years later. As a result, you can see that the models are looking rather worn from being in storage. In future I will know better and always take pictures upon immediate completion of building anything. They always look the way they are intended to then.

Art by Yasmina Reza

Created for my model building class, I have 3 models of this, as that was the assignment. It had to be all in white, just using different textures. We were not assigned a theatre space.

Art #1

Art #2

Art #3

Othello by William Shakespeare

We were assigned to design for the Globe Theatre in San Diego.

Front view:

Floor detail:

Arch & Rose windows detail:

A scene change:

Detail of gate:

Finding the Sun by Edward Albee

This was for juries at SDSU. I was in one of 3 groups to present for juries that year. I was the only one to keep the show set on a New England beach rather than change it to a West Coast one.