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Kokoro Shop Drawings and Production Photos

Spring 2011
These shop drawings come from a production of I serve as the Technical Director for this show. 
This is the shop drawing for the scrim panels. We will use 1-1/2" steel tube as the frame. 1/2" ply nailers will fasten on the rear of the panel to nail in the white shark's tooth scrim which will be stretched along the front. The 3 panels will be walked up and screwed to the deck, and 1/8" aircraft cable with stoppers will serve to keep it upright.
Here's a welded panel with the nailers attached. The frame will be painted white to match the scrim and nailers. Scrim will be stretched and attached at load-in to prevent rips pre-tech. 
Here's a shot from Act 1 of Kokoro- a good overview of the set. The scrim panels are shown in the background in front of the cyc. Behind the scrim panels are the lanterns at their in trim, making them seem distant from the audience's perspective.
This is a drawing of one of the set props- a prison bed. It will be made with 1" 16 gauge steel tube and angle iron. 3/4" OSB will span the angle iron and a mattress will rest on top. The bed dimensions are designed around a preexisting mattress, with the style of the prison bed depicted below. We went with a taller bed to avoid making the actor seem like a giant.
The design image for the prison beds.
Here's the bed post-welding, pre-painting. The OSB attached to the angle iron with tek screws to prevent it from falling out if tipped. The frame will be painted gray and a mattress will rest on top of it. 
Here's a shot of the bed in its final, fully dressed form. This shot comes from Act 2 of Kokoro, in the prison cell.
In the show, 6 lanterns need to be able to fly in to different trims with the same high trim. To accomplish this, I used 6 different barrels with varying radii to create different circumferences. When each barrel is turned 8 times, the lanterns will ply in or out to their trims simultaneously. The barrels are made of 3/4" ply circles and stringers and will be attached as shown below. 
Here's the plan view for the lantern rig. The 6 barrels will attach to a 1" aluminum pipe using pipe fittings, spaced out so each pair falls behind one of the 3 scrim panels. 18-3 cable spools on each barrel ay appropriate lengths and runs down the pipe in parallel. One power source connects to the rig, spooling in the opposite direction on the 1" pipe on the far right. The pipe is turned manually using a stock handle attached on the far right. 
Here's a shot from the final moment showing the lanterns at their in trims.
Kokoro Shop Drawings and Production Photos
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Kokoro Shop Drawings and Production Photos

A collection of shop drawings from a show that I served as Technical Director.

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