Art Directors Meeting

All of the Art Directors decided to have a meeting so that we could finalise a design for our set and then get started on actually building it.

This took longer than we imagined.

We all had different ideas of what we wanted to do, and found it hard to fit all of these ideas into one design. We did drawings of our top three designs and tried to discuss which one would work best. We did agree that we should have symbolisms of each round included in our design to relate to the production (Music, Film, TV, Internet)
Our first design was a film strip crossing the five flats and then having images that symbolised the other rounds around the main image. We thought this may appear like a film quiz, which in actual fact it wasn't.
Our second design was to have one flat represent one round, so four flats would be decorated with giant images of the round categories. We decided that the fifth flat wouldn't relate to the others as it wouldn't have a giant image and would therefore look plain.
Our third design was to have the middle flat decorated to look like a giant iPod with the headphones linking the other flats together, and then having images of the other rounds appearing to come out of the ear-pieces as music would do. We liked this idea as the iPod is a multi-media product and can relate to all the rounds, but we still felt that it lacked something to make it unique.

By the lunch came about we still had no design we really wanted to go ahead with, so we decided to think about it over lunch and then have another meeting.

After lunch and much needed brain power we suddenly had, what we thought, was the perfect design for our set.
We were going to go ahead with the idea that one flat represents one round, but this time we found a way to include the "Quickfire" round so all five flats were covered. Each flat would have a giant image to represent each round. It would be a flowing line that crosses all the flats and incorporates each round.
The first flat would represent the Film round, and would have a film strip crossing the top third of the flat.
The second flat would represent the Internet round, and would appear to look like a Windows Vista homepage, including a search bar and internet logo. This would join on from the first flat.
The third flat would represent the TV round, and as this flat has a rectangle cut out for the screen, we decided to paint a retro TV around the hole that had been cut out. We thought this was perfect to represent this round.
The fourth flat would represent the Quickfire round, and would consist of a collage of newspaper articles following the flowing line. The articles would be seemingly random to symbolise the Quickfire round being random and you never knowing what's coming next.
The fifth flat would represent the Music round, and would have giant musical notes placed on a giant painting of musical paper.

We also decided that our main colour for the flats should be a dark blue, as we have seen from various quiz shows that blue is the main colour used as it suggests intelligence and calmness. This colour would be used to finish painting the flats around our giant images to help make our set come alive.