Live Performance Designer
April Rowland
Arena Designs
Design for Nottingham Arena, Specluative
The Prodigy
Photoshop
This task was to create a modernistic performance in my own style of a band or artist. I choose
‘The Prodigy’ as I felt a lot of their songs could inspire some interesting and unusual set creation,
that you wouldn’t get from the conventional artists of today. I researched into the performers, looked at
previous performances, and tried to find relatable performances and features to their shows. I noticed that
their previous costume designs looked a lot like industrial suits and alien costumes. This led me to the Sky
Tv series ‘Chernobyl’,where I thought the chemical suits and boots could not only help depicts songs like
‘Poison’ but also fit the remit of the band. The main logo of ‘The Prodigy’ is an ant, they have always
incorporated some form of ant image on stage. My interpretation of what the show could be, led me\
to create a ‘Giger’ (from Alien) styled ant that came out into the audience. The colours kept with the
band main colour of UV, chemical colours from ‘Chernobyl’ and the infamous
black of alien were added to give it a unique flair.