The set have remained the focal point but have be moved to the side so that there is more space for the use of props (to suggest period) but also so that the stairs can be incorporated in different ways between the different scene changes e.g the stairs can be used to come down into the kitchen for Ashputtel and the stairs as the focal point when Ashputtel loses her shoe and runs away from the Prince's castle.
Lighting Projections for the scene (Using lights as up-lighting) - Lights projected onto the backdrop:
For the Prince's Castle - Red and Gold alternate panels of the backdrop. Colours to not mix where they colours meet.
**Stairs to be up-lit in a velvety red.
The red and gold sound gawdy but I almost want that to be the feel so it seems over the top and rich!
Hi Rachel
ReplyDeleteGood blogging! The culminating idea is quite inspired - an all-white minimalist set, with accents and moods expressed through light (if I'm reading this right?)
But what is the scale in relation to the human figure? At present I am reading a kind of expressive grandeur into this - but I amy be completely wrong. Somehow it reads to me as if the stairs are larger than life - would this work?
As for the genre considerations - the combined genres of Louis 14 and modernism is a very good idea - but more research into modernist design is needed - look at Adolph Loos, Bauhaus, Le Corbusier; look at minimalist art/sculpture (Robert Ryman, Robert Morris, Donald Judd, Agnes Martin, Barbara Hepworth {less a minimalist, more a modernist]). Refine your ideas - this is a good precept, so develop in stringently!