This was the last chance for Oliver and myself to go through our concepts and make changes before tomorrow's meeting.I have prepared three mood boards - two large, detailing the inspiration for each concept visually, and a third smaller one that looks at the Greek history of the time and conflict in visuals.
The concept A mood board contains research images from Labyrinth, Pans Labyrinth and the Jim Henson film the Dark Crystal.
For concept b I have been looking at the symbolism in the play and the sexual references and I have found they have a connection in the use of flower metaphors and references, in particular to the rose and the pansy.
An interesting piece of knowledge about the pansy - it is the flower referenced in the play that Oberon and Robin use to drug both the lovers and Titania. It is actually a common mythology that, as referenced in Shakespeare's text, the pansy was turned purple by being hit by cupids arrow. It is also a historical belief, my research has uncovered, that the pansy was used in celtic tradition as an ingredient in a celtic love potion.
The mood board for this concept has research images of paintings from Georgia O'Keefe, Freida Kahlo, images of real life flowers and images from the Pink Floyd film The Wall - the flower scene.
But back to the concepts;
We exchanged emails and I went over Oliver's written version - and on the whole it was brilliant! There were a couple of points where colour notes had been included from suggestions in previous meetings that I felt the need to take out as colour is something that will come from character analysis and progression which is a stage we are not at yet. I have highlighted the changes in red, including a couple of points that I was unsure of, and we are going to go over them tomorrow before the meeting to make sure we both are happy with it and agree on what we are trying to say.
The concept A mood board contains research images from Labyrinth, Pans Labyrinth and the Jim Henson film the Dark Crystal.
For concept b I have been looking at the symbolism in the play and the sexual references and I have found they have a connection in the use of flower metaphors and references, in particular to the rose and the pansy.
An interesting piece of knowledge about the pansy - it is the flower referenced in the play that Oberon and Robin use to drug both the lovers and Titania. It is actually a common mythology that, as referenced in Shakespeare's text, the pansy was turned purple by being hit by cupids arrow. It is also a historical belief, my research has uncovered, that the pansy was used in celtic tradition as an ingredient in a celtic love potion.
The mood board for this concept has research images of paintings from Georgia O'Keefe, Freida Kahlo, images of real life flowers and images from the Pink Floyd film The Wall - the flower scene.
But back to the concepts;
We exchanged emails and I went over Oliver's written version - and on the whole it was brilliant! There were a couple of points where colour notes had been included from suggestions in previous meetings that I felt the need to take out as colour is something that will come from character analysis and progression which is a stage we are not at yet. I have highlighted the changes in red, including a couple of points that I was unsure of, and we are going to go over them tomorrow before the meeting to make sure we both are happy with it and agree on what we are trying to say.
On the whole I feel we have come up with two solid concepts that would both stand under scrutiny and are both equally good. Tomorrow's meeting will tell and give us the direction we need to finally start designing in earnest with eight weeks to go!
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