PRODUCTION DESIGNER | ART DIRECTOR

Class Clowns Recce

 

THE GROUNDS


The grand entrance to the school will feature custom banners hanging from the 3rd floor, and flagpole.

 

THE CLASSROOM


REQUIREMENTS:

  • Appears in every episode across six subjects.

  • Hosts the “Part One: Written Exam” segment where teams write answers on mini chalkboards.

  • Students sit in three groups of two.

  • This room must accomodate all study/episode subjects.

DRESSING ADDITIONS:

  • Large wooden teacher’s desk, dressed with academic power cleches.

  • Authoritative wooden chair.

  • A wheely chalkboard or two.

  • The school crest, house crests.

  • Three sets of desks with chairs, and individual small blackboards w/ chalk.

  • Room for a trophy cabinet, or similar.

optional: Episode specific re-dressing (just draft ideas)

Biology

  • Laminated diagrams (body systems, cell structures)

  • Plastic models (skeleton hand, frog anatomy)

  • A small tray of lab items in the background

Geography

  • Pull-down map of Australia

  • Globe, compass rose poster

  • Stack of atlases on the teacher’s desk

Maths

  • Times tables poster

  • Oversized protractor + triangle

  • Chalkboard with partially erased equations

Physics

  • Weight experiments

  • Water experiments

  • Pendulum or Newton’s cradle on the desk

English / Poetry

  • Framed portraits of poets

  • Soft desk lamp

  • Books arranged neatly

  • Warm-toned backdrop papers

History

  • Portrait grid: Romans → Renaissance → Noughties

  • A timeline ribbon running across the wall

  • Ageing parchment signage

LOCATION OPTIONS


Classroom Option A - The Bookroom (Ground Floor)

Notes: A long rectangular room, warm tones, large windows, dressed with book cases.

Classroom Option B - The Chapel (2nd Floor)

Notes: Larger stone walled space, colder tones, some stain glass windows with christian motifs, will cost more than Option A to dress and laicize - but offers more depth.

 

JULIA’S OFFICE


HEADMISTRESS OFFICE / REPORT CARD ROOM - LIBRARY (2nd Floor)

 

SCHOOL HALL


SCHOOL HALL - Mess hall (2nd floor)

 

ART CLASS


ART ROOM - ART CLASS (Ground floor anex)