Planning and designing a set

After we had designed the name media circus and decided we wanted to use the theme of a circus throughout the show we had to come up with some ideas on what we wanted the set to look like, it was mainly the job of the art director but everybody had a small hand in the say of the design. When designing a set the first thing you should always do is draw up a plan of what your going to do for your design and what its going to look like, then come up with a list of things your going to need to do this, and make sure you get all the things on that list and make sure everybody knows what they are doing before you even start to design the set. There was a lot of designing to be done for our set as we used 7 back boards which all had to coated and then painted, aswell as the semi-circular table we used.