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Here is my presentation of my storyboards!

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Video idea to show how my idea can work in real time and to scale 

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Storyboards

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First concept for set design. 

Done on Maya Autodesk, and made to a scaled version of the Circa theatre plans. Drawings done over the top in procreate! 

Love this concept of having three white linen sheets to show the barrier between one reality and the next. This staging focuses on the idea of reality and which parts are real and which are in fact just our protagonist’s play. I’ve chosen to go back to some of ancient techniques of storytelling to convey the different planes of reality in my staging. Shadow puppetry is the main inspiration of my staging, as it is simple and only uses light source, images and a projection screen. 

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Second concept of the LED Screen box. 

I enjoy this concept as it still gives me the chance to play with reality and see how i can manipulate the background around the characters to show different aspects of each reality. 

Doesn’t quite feel as authentic to me, feels like i’m trying to be something i’m not, would be interesting however to create a 1:1 scale of this. 

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Final ideas for proper exploration. 

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DRAFT storyboards

This is what i could complete of my independent study from last week. I’m wanting to create a model of the thrust stage a theatre at Circa, and then add in little models of furniture and the actors as my storyboarding. However because i’ve been sick i’ve been unable to do that. 

Here is my draft of what i’m wanting to create into a model, they are extreme draft storyboards 

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Projection in Musical Theatre

In Musical theatre, projection is something that can help you truely imagine what is happening int he show. It gives insights to not only characters mind sets, but their dreams and even fears. 

It can be used in an abstract way, like in dear Evan Hansen when many people are singing about the way they feel I regards to a love ones death, they are clearly int heir own spotlight but surrounding them is projections of emails, photographs and other imagery associated with the person. As the main protagonist and the love interest sign together they are in the central point of the projection. 

In Oslo, the use of projection is used to show the woods the main characters sing about, and fear they have in regard to the outside world. The projection of a forest is cast over the backdrop of a fancy room. 

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Projection in Theater

Svoboda’s works include some of the oldest forms of projection found in theatre. His works covered many different mediums, some with actors and other just pure projection. 

The elements often included screens of different sizes and shapes suspended and different angles. Automatic slide projectors, and film projectors controlled by electric tape would cast images onto the blank screens. The visual aspects would often be accompanied by sound. 

This is the base of one of his works that was a contribution to the Brussels World Fair in 1958. It didn’t’t include any scooters, just the projections. This work is free of composition, she and creation. Images of real people and object and show on the screens but the relationship between them isn’t real. It’s in its purest form just a collage on a stage. 

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Examples of storyboarding

Richard Dunham - Designer, often uses charcoal or water colour to convey design ideas for a production. 

http://rdunhamdesigns.com/RDunhamDesignMaterialsGalleryStoryboards.html 

Florence Watts - also uses pen to convey storytelling, but has a preference for model making to fully get narrative across. They’re highly detailed and lovely to look at.

http://www.florencewatts.com/model-making-1/2017/6/26/7llnpt178xwbpz44diiplwl4i0aazk 

Amelia Jane Hankin - Uses contract to convey ideas, white ballpoint pen on black paper draws the eye and the sketches are extremely loose. She quickly moves onto ideation and loose model making, using mediums of paper and card. 

http://www.wsd2013.com/amelia-jane-hankin/

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Helpful Articles on Staging

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zygqsbk/revision/1

https://illuminated-integration.com/blog/types-of-stages/

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3 Scenes, 3 different ways

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Daffodil Pitch

Initially the staging of the daffodils in Sarah Kanes ‘Cleansed’, is several daffodils ‘growing’ up through he floor. The seem to appear throughout the play and my initial idea for the staging would be using projections on the walls of the daffodils. 

When the daffodils are cued in the script id want the lights to slightly dim and have projections of the daffodils start to grow on the walls. If there are actors speaking id have. Small spotlight of them to still incorporate them into the movement of the flowers growing. 

There seems to be a lot of violence that happens whist the daffodils are on stage in the play, so when that happens id still have them gown and change but the animation of the daffodils could change as the violence is happening. Possibly dying or wilting? 

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Ella Hickson’s ‘The Writer’

Initial thoughts.

I don’t quite understand the sections 2-4. It makes sense when you read them as a whole but as I went back and reread sections I found certain aspects confusing. 

I enjoy the parallels between section 2 and 5, and the difference between the girlfriend and boyfriend. An dhow the writer ends up fucking the girlfriend the way the ‘boyfriend’ initially did to the writer. But I feels slightly messy and hurts my head a little. I think listening to someone speak this play in a. Podcast or soothing would be helpful in seeing where the interns of words are meant to go. 

I’ve been in drama and productions for 5-6 years and have adored it. However because o this I find plays make way more sense if I can see someone performing it after I read the play myself. It helps my brain make It all make sense. 

I enjoyed reading the first section the most. It was good because I felt like it set things up nicely and I was excited to see how the young woman was going to scold the older man. The only issue I had was that reading it I found myself yelling at the older guy and almost begging him to listen and try understand from her perspective. 

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Final Experience 

Created on Sketch Up, this is my final form of my work. 

I wanted to have random circled made of LED lights attached to mirrored walls inside the container. 

As it’s situated in a dangerous goods container there will be sound proofing and insulation placed between the container exterior and the materials inside. 

What happens??

You first go into the container and are in a dark and soundproofed box, just as you start to settle into the quiet and calm interior, music starts to play. Ēriks Ešenvald’s Stars floats around the room and the lights placed along the walls start to glow and change along to the music. They intertwine and as the piece crescendos, suddenly the entire room lights up, enveloping you in a wall of sound and light. Then as the piece starts to finish you notice the lights fading, like stars just as the dawn breaks.  

This experience will take place every half an hour and only last for five minutes. It would be an experience that requires you to stay inside the container for the full time (unless it is absolutely necessary that someone needs to leave). I wanted to create this buzz around the container, and create interest and fun to what is inside the box. 

Robert Wilson’s lack of theatrical heirachy (in the sense that the audience is just as important as the performance) is what draws me to his work. I wanted to incorporate the idea that a performance can still happen without performers! 

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Yellow box is site placement. I thought it was more important to situate it like this as my container doesn’t have an experience that allows for the doors to be open. 

It’s more important for my container to be shown in conjunction to the other experiences, to show how it would work with the environmental flow of the arcade 

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