Tender - First meeting with set designer:

Communication with the director so far has been via email with a short statement that the costumes should be very contemporary. The set designer Rebecca Pride has also had initial email contact with the director which has set a few basic ideas in place. The first meeting with the director is not for a few weeks. As Rebecca and myself have worked together before I knew from the start that we would work very closely on this project. The initial meeting was to establish some ideas and get the feel of what each other is thinking. The key discussion focused around making the contemporary look of the production. The play is about snap shots of incidences in the characters life and the way individual paths cross and life stories interlink. I explained my idea to render the costume designs in a Photorealitic style and how this could somehow reflect in the costumes. I want the costumes to have a monochrome colour scheme which seemed to be received well. Ideas generated by Rebecca through the discussion was to create a ripped visual effect on the furniture, and also look at some kind of ‘dot’ motif such as in the paintings of Lichenstein (a snap shot being a comic strip). The director has requested that all the scenes are set all times and the actors move from one area of the stage to the other. The ‘snap shot’ idea would support the director’s concept. The meeting was a valuable start to the design process and has set ideas flowing and established a solid working dialogue about the design of the production. At this stage no visuals were used as part of the discussion.