Professional and Collaborative Practice - Maidstone

Date - Wednesday 5th April
Hours in - 8:40a.m. - 2:30p.m. (6hrs 50mins total)

INSTALLATION DAY -

8:40a.m.
Met with design team at Maidstone studios for installation, talking over what needs to happen first and what needs to be done.

9a.m.
Were briefed on health and safety regulations and started to unload van.
Started to put out first load of flats, making sure to match them up correctly, and initially clamping the flats to the braces to make sure they are study before screwing them in permanently.

  

We used pre-cut and angled pieces of wood to achieve our first curve in the set, this helping us to get the correct lay out on the set, before measuring the other side to make sure they match up perfectly, these we marked off with tape, so that that lighting crew could set up lights at the same time. 

  

We had to work around the lighting crew, as they had not been given a ground plan before we had arrived, however our crew had not been asked by the Maidstone students to provide one. 

 

We touched up patches  of paint on the set where they had been knocked in transit, we found there was only minor places to touch up. 

We started to move items onto set to check the layout, once the lighting crew were finished, checking that everything was correctly in place as we had designed. 

We found there were adjustments that needed to be made as the Maidstone students had asked for something else on the day. 

Once adjustment they asked for was for a different number on the game spinner, which we had previously been told to follow the numbers on the original game, they now wanted a number 4 in place of the 0, this was something we had to then leave to do last, as we did not have the material on us to make a new  number and drawing one on to us was not an option as it would not look professionally done. 

We attached the slash curtain to the door frame using a stapler, I then cut the curtain to length. 

 

We attached the lighting to the overhead covers making sure that they were in place, and and well attached.

 

I went around with tape and covered off any cracks in the flats where they were joined behind to make sure there was no light leak from behind. 

 

Final set almost completely put together. 

I feel that overall the installation went well, however I feel there was a minor lack of communication from the Maidstone team on some minor points, however everything went mostly smoothly and the stress on the day was minimal, the installation was completely on time and quickly, there are a few adjustments to be made tomorrow morning but there only needs to be a small team on site for these adjustments. I believe that our team worked together well and communication between us was excellent.