Set Design: Second Meeting With Our Set Designers

In our second meeting with our set designers, we continued to discuss the possibilities with the third element. Whilst discussing it, we thought about how the costume should change to suit whatever set we ended up going for, therefore, the designers began to become more fond of the 'empty cargo container set'. The main questions/concerns that they had were if we were planning to have the dancers of artist do any choreography involving hitting the walls of the set. This would obviously have an impact on the way it is built because it would have to be far more planned out if we did want to do that in order to withhold the pressure of the impact. We hadn't previously thought about doing any choreography that involved this so there was no point in suddenly adding it when it would be easier if we didn't. Instead f building the cargo container, there was the possibility of emptying out one of the schools containers and filming like that however, they take a long time to empty out and by building it in the studio we would have more control over the outcome and use of it as a set.

We then moved on to the second element with the red room. They suggested that instead of have a black infinity wall we make it red to enhance the use of colour and also have textured walls instead of an infinity wall. Their suggestion stemmed from he idea that things may get lost within the frame because it's so dark, the colours would end up merging together. Their two suggestions were to either use metallic looking curtains or walls which have more of a wet look than matte. We understood the reasoning behind both but wanted some more time to discuss the two options  because there were pros and cons to both however, we did agree that adding texture to the walls would make the frame more interesting.

We concluded the meeting by clarifying that within every element we will film the artist on her own, the dancers without the artist, some individual dancers, the artist with the dancers and the artist with the dancers but using the dancers more as props than performers.