The document discusses props and set design for a production of High School Musical. It describes props needed for specific scenes, including a basketball kit, fairy lights, balloons, a bowler hat and folders of sheet music. It then focuses on "flats", or backdrop pieces, describing the creator's initial idea for a red and white color scheme to match the basketball team uniforms. Research of the film's set informed the final flat design of three large red and white panels with white strips. Additional decorations like banners and posters would be added to make the set look like a high school.

1. • Wildcats’ basketball kit
• Fairy lights and balloons on tables (for the New Years Eve scene to give a sense of
realism)
• Kelsi’s bowler hat, suit and folders of sheet music (this would make the character
believable because she is a pianist and would carry around folders of music
because she is obsessed with music – “I get up at 5am before school”)
• Ladder with tinsel (for Sharpay & Ryan’s Bop To The Top – these are the props used
in the film)
• Ms Darbus’ gong (she uses it in multiple scenes – “I’ll eat my gong”)
• Sharpay’s pink locker (she considers herself the height of popularity at school and
loves the colour pink)

2. My specific prop was “flats”. These are what
make the backdrop of the whole stage, which in
High School Musical’s case was a relatively
simple high school interior look.
The colour scheme for the whole production is
mainly red, white and blue. This is because the
Wildcats’ basketball kit is red and white and the
basketball team itself is like a motif in the show. I
wanted to recreate the scenery as close to the
original High School Musical film as possible, so
to do this I researched images of the school
hallways in the film and they are red and white. It
was very important to ensure continuity ran
throughout the set to give a sense of realism.

3. This is my original idea for the flats
– to have a divide in the middle of
each flat made out of a wood panel
painted white, almost like a skirting
board, with red paint on the top half
and white paint on the bottom half.
I decided against this idea
because we experimented
with a smaller version and
it didn’t look aesthetically
pleasing.
There are things that will be made and
placed onto the flats to make it look like
a realistic high school
corridor/surroundings, such as Wildcats
“Big Game” flags and posters for the
Science Decathlon.
These images are
research of the film’s set,
so we can get a realistic
idea of what their designs
looked like for us to
recreate.
The Wildcats logo is a
motif in the show,
therefore we wanted to
incorporate it into as many
things as we could
including the posters.

4. 1.9m
1.22m
This is my final drawing of what I want the flats to look like. Again,
the colour theme is bright red and white to reflect the colours of the
Wildcats basketball kit. In this drawing, there are three 1.9m x
1.22m wooden flats across the back of the staging, however since
looking at the staging that has been set out for the show I will need
more than three to stretch along the back because the staging is
bigger than I anticipated. The white strips are for aesthetic
reasons, making the set look sporty as one of the focuses in the
show is the Wildcats basketball team. These will be made from
white LX tape.