After a light projection workshop last week, we have established a narrative for our group performance.
Proposed Group Performance running order of scenes:
1. Girl playing (the objects/puppetry group are looking in to this aspect) – who perhaps represents the younger version of the mother character.
2. She brings a box on to the stage, opens it up and takes out figurines.
3. Girl arranges the figurines – she exits (?).
4. The Brassai photographs flash up on to a series of small hanging screens.
5. Silhouettes of a milling crowd appear on a large screen.
6. These silhouettes remain as a backdrop as we switch to the interior setting for the mother and son scene.
7. Mother is talking of a significant childhood memory. We see moving footage of this memory. – perhaps in black and white with the girl highlighted in a particular colour – maybe this could fade as she comes to the end of her story?
8. We hear that the mother has died.
9. The son looks through a box of photographs – as he flicks through them the audience sees projected versions of them on the screen.
10. He comes across a photograph of the memory that his mother was talking about – he mourns for her, wanting her to still be there.
11. We return to the Brassai photographs. Hints of a road accident and maybe suggestion that it is son who is the dead figure.
1. Girl playing (the objects/puppetry group are looking in to this aspect) – who perhaps represents the younger version of the mother character.
2. She brings a box on to the stage, opens it up and takes out figurines.
3. Girl arranges the figurines – she exits (?).
4. The Brassai photographs flash up on to a series of small hanging screens.
5. Silhouettes of a milling crowd appear on a large screen.
6. These silhouettes remain as a backdrop as we switch to the interior setting for the mother and son scene.
7. Mother is talking of a significant childhood memory. We see moving footage of this memory. – perhaps in black and white with the girl highlighted in a particular colour – maybe this could fade as she comes to the end of her story?
8. We hear that the mother has died.
9. The son looks through a box of photographs – as he flicks through them the audience sees projected versions of them on the screen.
10. He comes across a photograph of the memory that his mother was talking about – he mourns for her, wanting her to still be there.
11. We return to the Brassai photographs. Hints of a road accident and maybe suggestion that it is son who is the dead figure.
We have now split in to small groups to work on different aspects of the production. These are: Scenography, Costume, Puppetry, Sound and Motion Graphics.
We in the motion graphics team are concentrating on finding images to project on to various screens that will be on the stage. At the moment we are thinking that we will project slides on to the walls of the interior setting to hint at the changing time of day. These will be simple, wallpaper-like images. We need to decide on a time-period in which the narrative will be set with the scenography team.
On the back screens, we are going to create an animation to illustrate or give a sense of the memories that the mother figure evokes. I have been looking in to the dream-like imagery of Chagall's paintings to give me some inspiration.
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