Misc. 1 Hour:

I was asked to helped out with creating the logo for the shirts (described in an earlier blog). I went to two different printing companies and decided on one. There we discussed design and colors. The shirt colors we decided on were black, white, grey, red, pink and safety green. The logo was the picture I posted before but the lettering will be outlined in purple but the lettering will be the color of the shirt. I saw the screen and it looks fun and Wonka-ish. Everything was going good and it would take a week to a week and a half tops to get the shirts printed and handed out. But there was one dilemma. I got a phone call saying that black would not be good. The company nor me thought of the complication with black. Besides that, the shirts are on there way to being printed.

Tuesday June 12th, 7-9 p.m.

Sat and observed the cast practice. Watched how the scenes played and how everything was moved around. We have boxes that are used in every scene and I observed how they move and transform from one scene to another.

Wednesday June 13th, 6-11 p.m.

     I went to the theater to meet with Cathy to tell her the final news on the shirts for the show. I then go to Kate's house to work. We put paper mache in cake pans to make it look like candy. We would put it in the cake pans, then put it in the oven to harden. While that was in the oven, we took little wooden beads and put them on a cookie sheet and spray painted them. When the candy was done, we sprayed them white then hand painted them. This took up most of the night. We also discussed what else we could do in the smelting room and what type of tops to put on the trees, and how to make them.

Sunday June 10th, 2-4 p.m.

     I showed up to the theater and kept working on my gate. I cut all the metal to fit and set it up on the floor to see how it would look. I realized that the weight would be heavier on one side so that was a problem. I figured out how it could be reconstructed to work. But, Jamie decided to save time to scratch the idea and get ideas to use those parts and not waste them. And that he would build the gate himself. His idea was straight bars with an arch on top. One bar on the bottom and one on the top. In between the two bars, there will be  a thin metal that I will draw and carve out a W. This will be our new gate. Sadly, I have no pictures of this date.

Saturday June 9th, 12:30-5:30 p.m.

    I show up to the theater and am given the task of building the gate with very little to no help. I have metal pieces. 10 foot long, metal rods. I am also given a metal bender. I am instructed on how to use it. I start bending the metal to try to get use to this material. I have never worked with this material before, so it was a new experience for me. I was able to get the middle spiral and curves for the center of the gate. I worked on that all day. I started out with measurements and winging the bending. I soon found out that I needed to draw  an outline on paper for the metal to bend to what I drew. That worked easier. After I bent the to middle gate pieces, I drew up what I needed for the rest of the gate. That pretty much was what I did all day. (right pictures).

On the left, is the Bucket House being constructed. Jamie ended up taking one of my multiple designs to work off it to build it.

Thursday June 7th, Pure Imagination workshop: 5:30-8:30

I showed up to help Kate with this workshop. This workshop was meant to involve the kids who did not make the show. When they showed up, Kate led them to the stage for a tour of what has been created. After the tour, Kate asked them a question for them to draw. We asked them what they thought the candy shack and cart would look like. How the smelting room looks like. And how other stuff would look like. It was fun watching the kids draw their ideas. It was a fun workshop.

After the workshop was over, Kate and I took all the drawings and went to talk about them. We set up the pictures in order of topic. We looked at the kids drawings of the gobstopper machines. We got some great ideas. We are doing designs now that incorporate tubes that balls will roll through, possible use of a funnel, gadgets and gizmos that will  be on the outside of boxes to create a machine. And a start button.
We also got a good idea for the outside of Wonka's factory. A sketch of the factory is going on a scrim, at top it will be fine and slowly blur towards the bottom. The other pictures did give us influence but nothing to dramatic.