BEATLES HOT
SET PROJECT
Tammy Honesty
Western Illinois University
photo: http://elizabethsteinberg.prosite.com/250475/1163138/gallery/syfy-hot-set
FROM REALITY
TV
TO
THE
• Based on a 2012 game show
on the SyFy channel.
CLASSROOM
• Contestants received a prompt
and had 3 days to create a set.
From the episode "Crash Landed Astronaut." Photo copyright of S
BEATLES HOT SET
PROJECT
Learner Outcomes
Materials
Process
Create an interior room for the main
character of the randomly chosen
Beatles song (aka the script)
Use the style of the song as well as
the clues in the lyrics to create this
environment.
The Beatles
Photo credit: Creative Commons
Choose the style, both architectural
time period and theatrical style, for
this room. This set will be on the
university stage.
“Lovely Rita” Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts
Club Band
“Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!” Sgt.
Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
“Eleanor Rigby” Revolver
“Lady Madonna” on the Past Masters, Volume
2
“Julia” The Beatles [The White Album]
“Sexy Sadie” The Beatles [The White Album]
“Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da” The Beatles [The White
Album]
“I Am The Walrus” Magical Mystery Tour
“The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill” The
Beatles [The White Album]
Photo credits: Creative Commons, Fair U
FINAL PRODUCT
Things the room must include
Presentation
Judges
Creative use of tools &
rules of design
Connection to character
and style of song
Visual interest,
acting/directing interesting
blocking options
Execution
PHOTO CREDITS
Title slide
Steinberg, Eilzabeth. SyFy Hot Set Image. Digital image.
Elizabethsteinberg.prosite.com. Elizabeth Steinberg, 2013.
Web. 5 Mar. 2016.
<http://elizabethsteinberg.prosite.com/250475/1163138/gall
ery/syfy-hot-set>.
Slide #2
"Dapper Cadaver on Syfy’s Hot Set." Dapper Cadaver Blog
Gothic Horror Halloween. N.p., 19 Sept. 2012. Web. 05
Mar. 2016.
<http://blog.dappercadaver.com/2012/09/19/dappercadaver-on-syfys-hot-set/>.
PHOTO CREDITS CONTINUED
Slide #2
Eramao, Steve. "SciFiAndTvTalk." 'SciFiAndTvTalk' N.p., 28
Aug. 2012. Web. 05 Mar. 2016.
<http://scifiandtvtalk.typepad.com/scifiandtvtalk/2012/08/syf
ys-hot-set-debuts-in-september.html>.
Slide #5
Top: Samantha Gibson’s Model of Eleanor Rigby
Middle and Bottom: Matthew Kornegay’s Model of Sexy
Sadie.