Wind of a Thousand Tales: Set Design for Mexican Story Design Concept: The Mexican Tale is set in a small

town, named Luzamor in the script. As Luzamor is a ctional town, there is no real-life location to take inuence from. However, using Mexico as a general benchmark for how the scenery should look like will be enough to draw inspiration towards designing this set. In particular, Mexico City. Mexican towns, from a rst impression, consist of buildings packed in together, forming small village-like areas. They also form tight alleyways/streets, and often are in desoletestates, made out of bare concrete materials. Example: http://www.cepolina.com/photo/America/Mexico/towns-villages-Mexico/5/Mexico-Mexicanvillage.jpg

A orange-sunset shade will be tting in the main background the scenery is based upon, either formed by painting the background orange or use of lighting above to create orange/ sunset shades, as Mexico is in the middle of a desert area, often sunny throughout. Small buildings painted within the scenery are to be colored brown, just like the adobe-colored houses seen in Mexico. No additional coloring through cloth or other materials, such as costumes should be used, as there is potential for both contrasting colors to mix together and ruin the presentation, along with no furniture/props, as this is purely just a transition backdrop.

This is more suited to the intro scenes, and possibly some of the character narrations. This, combined with the guitar-backing in the soundtrack, will add to the Latin-American authenticity in this particular story. Sketch:

Design Concept: For scenes such as the one involving Carlos, blinded, being taken care by Corazon in his home, a desolete, old-fashioned apartment comes to mind, in order to fully express Carloss depth of depression and despair following his rejection by Corazon. This will paint a dark environment for Carloss current state, having been blinded due to excessive exposure to the dark. This can easily be painted, with little detail towards the furniture, although some patterned/random cloth pieces could form the bedding and curtains in the window. Details/Colors: The apartment doesnt need to be fully detailed with every single piece of furnishing, a bed and chair seems enough considering the scene being brief. A table can be provided as an actual piece of furniture, placed against the scenery. Furniture should be plain colors, either grey or white. The walls should be painted in dark colors, preferrably grey and with evidence of the wall-painting aking off (paint spots), to depict the tattered condition of the room. Otherwise, it should be a simplistic as possible. Inspiration: http://pockleyroderick.com.au/images/for_sale/Allenskitchens.jpg

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The wedding scene, midway into the tale, should also be straightforward to design. To project this scene and its characters happiness and energy, bright colors, such as white and sky blue, to depict the happiness brought by an event like this. First impressions, it should look like a typical garden/pavillion environment,

Colors/Details: Majority of the colors used should be bright, whitish-shaded colors. Examples include white and sky blue, possibly with shades of pink/purple to add to the contrast level. Also, green should be used to depict the grass area of the scenery, possibly slightly-dark to ensure it will not overpower the overall contrast. There should be one large placebo in the middle, with stands/circles to represent the ground. Wedding details such as tables can be provided, as actual props with chairs.

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The nale comes where Corzaon and Carlos nally get together, Corazon in her wedding dress. This set during this particular scene should obviously be very bright and romantic, and fully distinguish the tales identity as a romantic tale. This will take form of the same mexican-town backdrop used in the beginning scenes, perhaps with details of sparkling (reworks) in the sky to illustrate the celebratory mood in this scene.

Color/Details: The proposed set will use the same background colors of dark orange, to represent a sunset on the mexican town, along with the green grass. However, in this case, bright white and blue sparks, or silver paint can be used to paint bright spark-like shapes within the background section, to depict reworks. The sun could be painted even darker, perhaps mustard yellow, to depict a early evening designated time this scene is set in. Other props onstage arent needed, as the characters and narration provided are enough to explain the scene to the audience, as in the rst introductory scenes. Sketch: