Here are some pictures of us playing around with shadows for the crowd seen, courtesy of Ming - Thank you!
Yesterday, for the first time, the whole group spent a day in the theatre. It was wonderful to be there, to get a sense of the space, and to bring a greater sense of life to our concepts for the performance.
We spent the majority of the day thinking about movement within the space, and the problem of making sure that the audience move around and don't stand still and stupefied, not knowing what to do, without physically moving them ourselves.
We are looking at various methods of drawing them towards the action, by using lighting spots where the action is taking pace, marking out an actual path on the floor (but not to the extent that there is too much of a boundary), and placing small performances or vignettes, in various places, dotted around the theatre, to encourage a greater sense of flexibility about where to stand (as we will not provide seating).
Things are coming together. Some lovely costume designs were presented. We are going to use a grey/blue palette, to exagerrate the feeling of a cold and wet outside setting, in contrast to the warmth of the house setting, but this will be highlighted with little hints of colour perhaps in a pinkey/orangey colour, making reference to the old-style tinting of black and white photographs before colour photography existed.
Multimedia groups task: to source old super-8 home movie footage to create a history for the son character, and also to find a number of photographs, documenting the life of his mother.
We spent the majority of the day thinking about movement within the space, and the problem of making sure that the audience move around and don't stand still and stupefied, not knowing what to do, without physically moving them ourselves.
We are looking at various methods of drawing them towards the action, by using lighting spots where the action is taking pace, marking out an actual path on the floor (but not to the extent that there is too much of a boundary), and placing small performances or vignettes, in various places, dotted around the theatre, to encourage a greater sense of flexibility about where to stand (as we will not provide seating).
Things are coming together. Some lovely costume designs were presented. We are going to use a grey/blue palette, to exagerrate the feeling of a cold and wet outside setting, in contrast to the warmth of the house setting, but this will be highlighted with little hints of colour perhaps in a pinkey/orangey colour, making reference to the old-style tinting of black and white photographs before colour photography existed.
Multimedia groups task: to source old super-8 home movie footage to create a history for the son character, and also to find a number of photographs, documenting the life of his mother.
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