Scott Ashley is a production manager who specializes in set design, lighting design, and fabrication for events from 2014 to present. Some of his projects include set design for NASA's coverage of the 2017 solar eclipse, lighting designs for various events in Charleston including the 150th anniversary of the end of the Civil War, and set, lighting, and projection design for an opera production of La Boheme. He also designs puzzles, displays, and interactive elements for attractions, conferences, and escape rooms.
3. Production Shot Before Overhead Scrim added
CAD Rendering of Interior Set for Rain Plan
CAD Rendering of Exterior
Set
Set Design for
NASA’s Coverage of the Great 2017 Full Solar Eclipse
5. View from Charleston of
the lighting for the150th
Anniversary of the End of
the Civil War over Ft. Sumter
Four 12k watt lights making two
beams which then merge to
become one.
Various Event Lighting Examples
6. Various Event Lighting Examples
Lighting for the Inauguration of a
New Crane at the Port of Charleston
9. Various Event Lighting Examples for television during 2016 Presidential Campaign
Lighting Design for President Barack Obama at the Mother Emmanuel AME shooting memorial service
10. La Boheme
Charleston Opera
Set, Lighting &
Projection Design
This central unit housed
the orchestra & acted as a
projection surface which
could opaque or transluce
to set an interior or
exterior location.
Below:
Projection Layout.
Note how one projector
lights the scenery and
projects super titles.
11. Set and Lighting Design for La Boheme utilizing 4 projectors, split onto 7 projection surfaces.
Acts I & IV - The Garrett
CAD Rendering
12. Act II - Exterior Cafe Momus & Act III - Outside Tavern on Outskirts of Paris
13. This Segmented Video
Wall illustrates a
mosaic theme:
Many separate
people / companies
coming together
to make one picture.
CAD
Renderings
Video Wall Layout
Next Slide illustrates in Video
Production Design
for Annual
Corporate Conference
15. Lobby displays to show the same mosaic concept: How Separate Companies Come Together to Create Homes.
CADRendering
Left,Front&RightViews
PhotosofActualDisplays
Left,Front&RightViews
18. Pyramid Puzzle I designed
and built with every edge mitered.
Magnets in each piece confirm
proper assembly followed by
a spring door popping open.
19. Wall Layout and Scenic Art
Fabricated Jewels and Jewel Tray. When
placed in correct order, Golden Head releases.
Designed & constructed
large pneumatic doors.
slide open when scarab
is placed in receiver.
Some other
puzzles on which
I collaborated
in design &
fabrication
20. ElementsfromaGhostHunterEscapeGameIDesigned
This Seance Table has multiple puzzles built into it.
- Stars have Sensors that detect the ghosts personal objects.
- “Plates” make a circuit when hands are properly laid on them.
- Ouija Board has RFID sensors to know exactly what position
you rotate the rings.
- When the Planchette is placed in the center of the board, it
dissolves a wall to see into a holographic chamber.
appears in the Containment Chamber
Part of the Holographic Image which
When Correct Card Hand
is placed on the table the
drawer pops open
Pulling out the correct book titles
causes portrait to drop and
reveal ghost’s personal object.
Mug PuzzleCard Table Puzzle
21. Battery Powered Lit Pergola Design for Events
Facilitated the Design & Fabrication to Fulfill the Client’s Concept
CAD Rendering for Concourse D’Elegance
Best of Show Backdrop
Various Scenic Elements Designed for Events
22. Storybook Step & Repeat
for Plantation Wedding Mylar Palm Trees dress
columns for this
Miami Vice
New Years Party
Bar Backdrop
Stepped Mylar Chandeliers are an
Inexpensive way to fill a large space.
23. Various Event Scenic Examples I
Designed & Collaborated in Fabricating
Designed and Built Wagon
Faux Wood Grain
I Painted
Haunted House Facade I Painted for Six Flags
Magic Chalkboard
that behaves like
a touch screen
Tour Design for 1st Floor of
the Old City Jail. Complete
3d walk through I did in CAD
24. Furniture Design and Construction
& CNC Routing
Magic Chalkboard
that behaves like
a touch Screen
