1. This was the Original Design for the High School Musical Set.
This is the End product.

2. The prop I chosen was the Noticeboard, which was used in the performance.
I feel the Noticeboard fit perfectly with the set. Straight away it linked with the
colour scheme with the red and white being team colours. It also linked to my
partner’s posters for the big game and Science Decathlon, so if the students in
the performance seen them round the school and wanted more information
they’d come to the noticeboard. Another positive is that it was actually used in
the performance as not everyone else’s was and a character actually wrote on
it. I had enough Justification for why I did each thing on my Noticeboard, It
either linked to the set idea or the script. It was prominent on stage it stood
out the audience as they walked in it was right there for audience to notice, so
if the audience noticed it then in the performance the students can notice it. It
was aesthetically correct with the set and the costumes of the performers.
A negative about the noticeboard was that two of the notices had to be
changed so last minute as they were on coloured paper and hand drawn to
make it look like they were drawn by the students themselves and they’ve
stuck it on. But Teachers disagreed with the design and wanted it all printed off
and red but I personally felt like it was too much red and harder for the
audience to read because it just blended in with the set. With a noticeboard I
feel you have to have bold writing and bright colours to grab the student’s

3. attention but with the new changes I thought it didn’t do that but on the other
hand it did fit with the set and colour scheme. On each dress rehearsal and
night of the performance I did have to keep changing the signup sheet for the
‘Juliet and Romeo’ Auditions as Sharpay wrote on it. My original idea was to
write Sharpay’s signature herself in bright pink to link to her locker being pink
and her being so girly and she could mime writing on it so then it’s easier for
the audience to read and it’s neater, because when she did write on it because
the noticeboard had a fleece texture and not a hard background she had poked
a hole through the paper on the first night and on another night it wouldn’t
write. She wouldn’t have had that problem if I already wrote it on.
A student gave me her noticeboard to use but there weren’t enough small pins
that came with the board which isn’t her fault. I had to use pins that you would
use if you were sewing and they were a lot longer than the ones that came
with it. So they did keep bending when I was trying to push them in and they
went through the noticeboard itself and at points some things fell off because
they weren’t pinned on secure enough.
If I was to do it differently I would get some coloured paper that I could
actually put in the printer and print stuff on it, so then it would be the best of
both words for my design of bright colours on the noticeboard and the
teacher’s idea of having everything printed off.
My noticeboard fit with the rest of the set with the colour scheme and with the
wildcats logo and paw to link to the team spirit. The placing of the noticeboard
was in a good position as it was there as soon as the audience walked in.
Overall I think it was a good prop that fit with everything from colour scheme
to context to the script. I would only change the colours and add other colours
but just leave the red for the wildcat’s notices.