*The white drapes were placed at a slightly wider angle than what I had imagined as I wanted the drapes to closely fit around the grass and the performance space to enhance the idea that the performance is based on memories (an interior world).  However, I preferred the slightly wider angle we created in comparison to the sharp diagonal that could also have been created.  This was to work around the rigging and width of the drapes as a lot of them weren’t very wide, so couldn’t reach as far across as I thought.  Being on such a sharp angle would have affected the way the lights projected into the space and would have been hard for the audience to see in terms of sight lines in relation to the way the audience were positioned in the space.

Nicholls, N. (2014) Creation of My Set.

Nicholls, N. (2014) Creation of My Set.

*The projection of ‘the place in which I was performing/playing as a child’ was smaller and positioned higher up on the drapes, but this was to accommodate lighting and to prevent shadows appearing from the light of the projector.  Maybe if it was performed in a more compact space, I could have had the projection a little bigger, to the floor for example, because my initial intention was to have it blending in with the grass on the stage to blur and connect the reality of the live performance with the ‘frozen in time’ world of the picture.  With a large projection I could also have thought about potentially using floor lighting to evade any problems with clashing light…

*I originally wanted the fairy lights, which were strung down the sides of the projection, to be hung from the rigging.  However, I didn’t have enough and so not only would they have looked lost, but they would also have proved problematic in terms of the position of the other lights that were needed throughout the performance and again, may have clashed with the light emanating from the projector.  I feel that they worked better down the sides of the drapes, I just feel I could have placed more down the sides of all the other drapes to create more light that I felt was needed toward the end of the show, especially as at this point, the fairy lights were my only source of lighting.

*The lights in the rigging were made up of 6 fresnel’s and a spotlight.  2 were pink, 2 were blue and 2 were orange.  What I particularly liked about the lighting was that, for each colour, there was a lighter and a darker shade so that in the space it created a softer effect in the centre, getting darker towards the edges so it wasn’t too harsh against the other colours of the grass, the stones and the water, complimenting each other rather nicely.  In terms of the heart gobo effect, which my friend very kindly made for me especially for my show, it was larger than I had imagined but I liked the effect it created.  It looked as if it was spilling out of the water and so when I created the heart shape with my hands it was like I was bringing the heart to life, enhanced by the red glow that was cast onto my hands simultaneously.

*The programming of the lights and sound, in comparison to creating the set, was nice and simple!