More experimentation and discussion on set model box

Model Box

Here we are figuring out and playing around with 1:25 structures of the steel deck and extra structure in order to work out what we need to build. Also to help us start to plan out the journey of the audience and storyboard it - what will happen where and how...

  

Washing line first ever rehearsal... how to do it?

Within this initial rehearsal, we placed the puppets at the front on a high up table looking into the distance where the audience would be. The line would weave through the audience as they began to talk.

 
We had a bucket below the puppets where the handkerchiefs were going to be and the pegs were pegged to our jumpers... one by one we walked up to the buckets and squeezed the handkerchiefs dry and went over to hang up each one.

Once all were hung, we stood at each poll and lifted the line and started moving the line along so that the handkerchiefs started moving through the audience as if each one were following the one in front.








The 'pully' action of the handkerchiefs moving was quite jerky and bumpy and we would have to practice to get it in time and in sequence so they moved off slowly and smoothly. The audience among the handkerchiefs worked really well, the obtrusiveness of the handkerchiefs and the way they blocked the audiences vision was effective... the notion of us hanging the handkerchiefs up as a theatrical action visually also worked as it was repetitive which fits again with this repetition idea of war.

Wooden cable wrap

Saw this massive wooden structure, which is used to wrap round massive cables, outside a building and started to get lots of ideas for what we could use it for, unfortunately they wouldn't let me have it as they were using it for tables or something. However this could have worked really well within our set.

  

Sound

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5B80F33C27AFBA46
- link to a playlist of world war one songs.. here are some examples which I like and would like to experiment with within the show..

Pack up your troubles...

Hang out your washing... 

Hanging on the old barbed wire...

World War One documentary photography - Roger Fenton

http://www.allworldwars.com/Crimean-War-Photographs-by-Roger-Fenton-1855.html

Roger Fenton, a crimean war photographer, took amazing landscape photographs on the aftermath of the war..no mans land and landscapes of shell bomb debris...



There is a real lonely, emptiness to these photos,. reflecting the loss of life

Shadow puppetry experimentation