
12/15/2022
Life was so groovy before finals week hit…
All our graduate designers worked so hard to make this show come together beautifully, now it’s just the final push to the end of the semester!
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Life was so groovy before finals week hit…
All our graduate designers worked so hard to make this show come together beautifully, now it’s just the final push to the end of the semester!
Free our sisters, free ourselves!
Only one more weekend to see Loves Labor’s Lost!
Courtney Ohnstad has done many projects for Love’s Labour’s Lost, one of which being these beautiful sublimation printed butterflies for Maria’s costume. Designed by Katie Paulson.
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Love’s Labor’s Lost is right around the corner and lighting designer is putting the finishing touches on some custom hand painted gobos! Here they are being put in the oven to set the paint, soon they will be on stage offering some fun visuals!
Who knew that dress rehearsals could be so groovy? All of the designers and production crew have put in such hard work to create this beautiful vision.
Grad student Isabel Simoes deCarvalho shares some bts of her production design for the short film called “Bad Examples”
All of our designers are hard at work behind the scenes of Love’s Labour’s Lost. It’s right around the corner!
More new exciting gear for the Fab Lab!
We had some nice visitors come by the costume shop during our Friday work call for Love’s Labour’s Lost! Now everyone has a snazzy hat 🤩
Check out grad student Courtney Ohnstad’s process on textile printing: “In the previous school year at SDSU, I learned a lot about sublimation printing. While a fantastic method for printing on fabric, it is limited to synthetic fabrics. Wanting to learn about other methods for textile printing, I enrolled in a “Digital Textile Printing” class at the San Diego City
College. I heard about this class due to the fact that it is taught by an SDSU costume alumnus, Shirley Pierson. In this class, I learned that there are machines that print extremely vividly on natural fabrics. In this video, I am using a Roland direct to textile printer to permanently affix my costume rendering to a cotton canvas tote.
Congratulations to our friends at the Cygnet!!
In preparation for lighting focus for Love’s Labor’s Lost, Lighting Designer and their team pre-focused all the lights in the pre-visualization software Capture, and got a timelapse of the experience! Here they were able to preview what focus day is going to look like!
The new 3Doodlers are starting to roll in. Starting with the Pros!! 3D Fab class will be fun next semester!
Check out some snapshots of Josh Munden working on our turntable for Love’s Labor’s Lost!
PC: Ally Wood
Grad school things….
Check out some 1:48 models for art direction class done by Heather and Isabel for the tv show “Carnivale”
A few of us got a sneak peek at the new building and the renovation this week! They will be all ours in just a few short months!!
Lighting designers rejoice!
Pizza talk today at 12:00!
Check out Lars Sladich’s construction work on “The Dancer” from A Long Christmas Ride Home!
Costume Design by Courtney Ohnstad.
Spelling Bee hasn’t even closed yet and we’ve already started work on Love’s Labour’s Lost down in the costume shop. Here’s a sneak peek at some of Katie Paulsen’s fun designs!
Happy opening to Spelling Bee and to all the designers and technicians that put their hard work BEEhind it! They all did a BEEautiful job!
Look at Heather’s half scale model come alive! You will BEE amazed when you see it in person.
Dress rehearsals are going as good as they could BEE! Turns out our grad students can design AND spell!
Nice work to our designers!
Costumes: Miranda Sieber
Scenic: .design
Lighting:
Thanks to Robert Meffe for these great photos.
And some special spellers from last night: Lars, Katie, and Claire.
First day of tech today for Spelling Bee!
Courtney Ohnstad, a 3rd year costume design graduate student, just completed her capstone project. When asked about her costume design for A Long Christmas Ride home, she said the favorite piece she designed was: “The minister stole. The patchwork was inspired by real research of ministers in the unitarian church. He came back from visiting Japan, so it made sense he would include some Japanese prints in it. Because this character inspires Stephen in his afterlife, it connects to the whole show with patchwork.”
PC 📸: Jared Clanton
Scenic Design: Isabel Simoes DeCarvalho
Projection Design: Joshua Heming
Lighting Design: Sierra
HONEY, you won’t BEElieve how hard the shop has been working lately! Everything’s starting to come together for our production of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee! 🐝
Check out this process video of Miranda Sieber working on a tie dye shirt for the show she is designing: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee! You will have to BEE 🐝 prepared to see how this shirt turned out, dress rehearsals start next week.
Heater and Kat are gearing up in preparation for the 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, which goes into tech next week! How time flies 🐝
Pc: Ally Wood
Snapshots from todays light lab session for collab class. Students are lighting samples provided by scenery and costumes for a theoretical production of Mother of Exiles.
Electronic Theatre Controls (ETC) visited Team Lighting last week at San Diego State for their annual visit. They brought lots of toys to play with as well as fantastic lectures on color, networking, and more! (The yarn represented networked items in a system.). Thanks for a great day, ETC!
The new LoneStars made their debut out of the boxes yesterday! Can’t wait to turn them on!
BTS from last weekend when our grads in the TFM 605 class worked with the directing first years to creat a set of short films. Set dressing, costume design, and lighting all done by our grads!
Introducing you to our current MFA Design and Technology class!!! This year is already looking great.
Also, who do you think slayed their pictures the most? Team scenic, lighting, costumes, or TD? 👀 Opinions welcome in the comments to settle this department wide dispute.
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Our grads are deep in tech week for The Long Christmas Ride Home! Here are some process shots of their amazing work.
Scenic Dedign: .design
Lighting Design: .shreves
Projection Design:
Costume Design:
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