This was a fun project! The Carmel High School Ambassadors presented a Road To Eldorado show. I designed a portable, rapidly deployable backdrop that started as a dense jungle, and opened to reveal the lost city of gold. We got to take this show to the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, and everyone enjoyed the simplicity, and depth of the jungle backdrop. It was built with layers of foliage mat combined with large faux palms. The whole thing folds down to under eight feet tall, eight feet wide and four feet deep, keeping our truck pack managable.

The Accents presented Cages or Wings. This was also a creative adventure. I designed huge bird cage frames that when assembled resembled a bird cage, and that too was filled with over thirty gold bird cages. My crew and I spent several days spray painting bird cages from every thrift store and garage sale in Indiana. We then wired each bird cage with a light that was individually dimmable. We programmed a pixel map on the light board to allow us to do complex animations with the light bulbs that helped to tell the show.

Overall this was a great season!