Horse shoe in my house,,, this would be good for horrors of war puppet - significant to the horses used within the war as transport
Saturday, 12 April 2014
Prop sourcing
I found an arm chair on free cycle which was only a 5min drive away and luckily fit in Sarah's car!!
Horse shoe in my house,,, this would be good for horrors of war puppet - significant to the horses used within the war as transport
Horse shoe in my house,,, this would be good for horrors of war puppet - significant to the horses used within the war as transport
Story boarding
We created a ground plan of the space and cut out the structures and used blue tack on the bases so we could move them around.. we then started to plan the journey of the audience. This again changed the ground plan as we realised some areas needed specific tables etc...
Sewing machine first rehearsals
Horace's story is about leg amputation and I thought the sewing machines would fit and work well with this story. This is down to the way the sewing machines fix and repair things, they put things together while leg amputation is about taking off and removing; and I really like the contrast between the too.
My first idea was having four women at each sewing machine; sewing together these pieces of fabric (handkerchiefs from behind maybe) to create this massive material which is made up of all this individual handkerchiefs. Reflecting how the war was made up of lot of individuals which were put together to create this mass army - essentially not being individual anymore but one.
When we started playing around, I like the way the fabric falls. And the way it was falling, to me, reminds me of how his toe 'fell off' in the story - him loosing his leg and leaving a part of him behind - so this movement of the fabric falling down will hopefully aesthetically help this idea. We rehearsed on quite a low table but will need this is be much higher to get the falling effect!
Sewing the parts together idea will hopefully pop up somewhere else in another story during rehearsals we will find a place for it...
My first idea was having four women at each sewing machine; sewing together these pieces of fabric (handkerchiefs from behind maybe) to create this massive material which is made up of all this individual handkerchiefs. Reflecting how the war was made up of lot of individuals which were put together to create this mass army - essentially not being individual anymore but one.
When we started playing around, I like the way the fabric falls. And the way it was falling, to me, reminds me of how his toe 'fell off' in the story - him loosing his leg and leaving a part of him behind - so this movement of the fabric falling down will hopefully aesthetically help this idea. We rehearsed on quite a low table but will need this is be much higher to get the falling effect!
Sewing the parts together idea will hopefully pop up somewhere else in another story during rehearsals we will find a place for it...
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.
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.
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