I have been looking at amalgamating my set designs for Greek Tragedy with the War genre. In particular I have been looking at the use of gauze and lighting. I have put the set pieces onto strips of gauze that can be light to reveal or hide what is behind it. They will be painted with trees and Greek columns that will represent a forest. During a group tutorial with Andy we looked at using more gauze to hide the temple at the back of the stage and then with lighting slowly reveal it as the characters move through the “forest”. I am going to experiment with the gauze being double painted so that it can show two different images depending on the lighting.
Hi Sarah
ReplyDeletethese design are well worked out and clearly realised - the developmental process has been consistent and strong throughout. When you say that you are amalgamating the Greek and WWI ideas, do you mean the forms that these were taking being combined, or the content? If the content, then you are looking at making a cross-genre piece (if the form, presumably you are sticking solely with the Greek but just using some of the formal ideas you generated during looking at WWI?)
So - if taking a cross-genre view of this, I think the WWi element would have to be stronger - and this may be as simple as re-looking at those battlefield paintings of Paul Nash to see how the charred, destroyed trees are depicted.. or this element may come through in costume, not set.
Either way, the work is going well - keep the developments going.
I am not mixing genres just taking the idea of using gauze as well as a solid built set.
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