tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4420636931192628782023-11-15T22:54:44.904-08:00Harriet DennantHarriet Dennanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14242916895721007616noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-442063693119262878.post-6936538491485186082011-04-05T23:16:00.000-07:002011-04-06T17:22:24.173-07:00Next meeting and meaurment plans...<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Tomorrow Jo and I are scheduled to travel to Weymouth to meet with the director and actors during rehersals to catch up, revise ideas and collect the actors meaurments for the costumes to be made.I am looking forward to viewing the types of body movemwnts the actors will be using as this will effect the type of costumes made as restrictive movement is most probably out of the question.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div>Harriet Dennanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14242916895721007616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-442063693119262878.post-16502853232856672532011-03-30T15:01:00.000-07:002011-04-06T17:05:12.808-07:00Sock Puppets...<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> I have discovered there is a whole lost sock puppet culture online exchanging tips and information on how to make them entire blogs dedicated to them. Replaced by shop brought, conventional synthetic hand puppets...sock puppets have developed a persona of retro nostalgia. I love it! The quirkiness you can achieve by using miss match fabrics and textures lends itself to my deigns and research.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2L0It5h2iKLDN3uS0UwculuspAR1l8i1LZecPU81R8YEY5HKYUF1Ea60UH5h_hgF_w5HYmOa70Fyp-4OTPYkHq19iYgIoeKp9CCOkomfk4B9ExeAn_gzErdjs_CMHbhQmUrN1MyUT9UU/s1600/lipstick.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2L0It5h2iKLDN3uS0UwculuspAR1l8i1LZecPU81R8YEY5HKYUF1Ea60UH5h_hgF_w5HYmOa70Fyp-4OTPYkHq19iYgIoeKp9CCOkomfk4B9ExeAn_gzErdjs_CMHbhQmUrN1MyUT9UU/s1600/lipstick.jpg" /></a></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jenny has uploaded a series of images that inspire her a lot of them are from a specific artist, Brian Moore. Famous for creating modernized 1940's style propaganda war posters about current political issues. (http://briiiiian.com/ ) The washed out colour palettes used in his posters are highly used as a generalised palette for my work.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHJQkRI0rbaeIL8gAi_Poh-dXmn_qm1ONeDapmfnmRRx-tgKS4yNlTSJIPATsU-dzu7I9XpaUcKBGiReH1ztX55hYKHxr_SgdQil-J_gOJF-Z25RpBWZvrsP-55SroOW2AFsCq5PEohYs/s1600/Screen+shot+2011-04-07+at+00.53.01.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHJQkRI0rbaeIL8gAi_Poh-dXmn_qm1ONeDapmfnmRRx-tgKS4yNlTSJIPATsU-dzu7I9XpaUcKBGiReH1ztX55hYKHxr_SgdQil-J_gOJF-Z25RpBWZvrsP-55SroOW2AFsCq5PEohYs/s320/Screen+shot+2011-04-07+at+00.53.01.png" width="264" /></a></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I have found a range of toys made from socks instead of just as hand puppets, these quirky little creatures seem to be more popular the more unique, quirky and ugly the are in appearance:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj93K6A6Vl2AUw4Od4COEHjmv6r5SJ9R4tOoxBn1f5e7DCat03qIBNlRvbIMwWTvb3tD_NZ6evR0CFwuL9_tNDt1B6vUqw_hc964ebDmFDM52bFhBdZ51L8xlN2E5cxrdNVHrnKPxYe9MM/s1600/Screen+shot+2011-04-04+at+14.25.36.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj93K6A6Vl2AUw4Od4COEHjmv6r5SJ9R4tOoxBn1f5e7DCat03qIBNlRvbIMwWTvb3tD_NZ6evR0CFwuL9_tNDt1B6vUqw_hc964ebDmFDM52bFhBdZ51L8xlN2E5cxrdNVHrnKPxYe9MM/s320/Screen+shot+2011-04-04+at+14.25.36.png" width="230" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsINaC1DMLPsLr3GW0LIxopKhDaXKFXbzqnMJEzZ-qruQh-jE1H-Uo3dHlqY32tKLaksDHRIV0ucyzPCBSVC06hSzkozAgcWAqBpuDu86gcVLv8gxk1wFOQgMrWFgq-EUhGqsLSrwhOLg/s1600/Screen+shot+2011-04-04+at+14.39.13.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsINaC1DMLPsLr3GW0LIxopKhDaXKFXbzqnMJEzZ-qruQh-jE1H-Uo3dHlqY32tKLaksDHRIV0ucyzPCBSVC06hSzkozAgcWAqBpuDu86gcVLv8gxk1wFOQgMrWFgq-EUhGqsLSrwhOLg/s320/Screen+shot+2011-04-04+at+14.39.13.png" width="289" /></a></span></div>Harriet Dennanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14242916895721007616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-442063693119262878.post-5108314971516343412011-03-24T17:02:00.000-07:002011-04-06T16:20:47.833-07:00Chosen concept:<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;">The chosen concept was emailed to me this morning:</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">It’s 2022, the ice caps are melting,<sub> </sub>the ozone layer is disappearing faster than it can be repaired. CO2 emissions are at alarming levels and water wastage is up 500%. The Government must take drastic action. </span></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">From this day forth, socks are banned. </span></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The play is set is a dystopian future, not too far away from, but not quite like our present day. We are in The Country ruled by The Government and people are using up resources like there’s no tomorrow, and maybe there isn’t? </span></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">With socks banned, what will old men wear under their sandals? How will footballers hide their shinpads? Can you get away with wearing fishnets or will the police confiscate those as well? With night time stockings raids, and knee highs being sold on the black market, there are terrible things afoot. </span></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We follow a sock puppeteer as she tries, secretly to save any remaining socks from the incinerators. Meanwhile, we are kept updated on the few remaining socks who have thus far evaded the sock police. </span></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The play will comment on environmental issues – a small change can make a huge difference, and political issues – a government driven to ridiculous measures and the effects of an irrational regime. It discusses the threat of the unknown and a societies drastic, ridiculous reaction to fear. <span> </span>It will be performed by 4 actors, 1 male 3 female in a heightened physical style using absurdist humour. The set will be minimal with striking lighting. </span></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">This is what we have so far, ideas for development include looking at characters affected by the sock ban, in particular a sock puppeteer (inspired in part by Sharai Lewis) who is perhaps a little too attached to her puppets and maybe, creates an entire outfit out of socks that she has hoarded? </span></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br />
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This is the concept that has been disided for the script. </span></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I am a little disapointed by the change in title and the shift from the original plot of the Boogeyman.</span></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">However I am still confident the research I have carried out can still hold some relevance to the new plot line, title and concept. I am still planning on basing my designs around the work of Hew Locke and will begin more indepth research towards puppetry and sock puppets in stead of one specific creature. </span></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I am still very excited about the outcome of these designs and intend to begin some initial sketches after a little further reseach closer to the chosen subject areas. </span></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div>Harriet Dennanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14242916895721007616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-442063693119262878.post-25163475637971551872011-03-18T18:29:00.000-07:002011-04-06T15:41:20.974-07:00The lower Gallery :Hew Locke....<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> <strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">After a session in the library looking for artists and inspiration I was about to head home and took a short cut through the AUCB Gallery. To my delight was a visual explosion of colours and textures. A fantastic refference to the type of relife work I would like to base my designs around. I spent about an hour walking around making notes and sketching the work to futher inspire my design work, I took a brochure and went and found Jo straight away in a flurry of excitment.</span></strong></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">This is the artist I intend to research most in depth as a reference towards textures colours and effects.</span></strong></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><strong><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">HEW LOCKE :</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> AN EXHIBITION OF WALL RELIEFS, SCULPTURES AND DRAWINGS</span><br />
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</strong>Harriet Dennanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14242916895721007616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-442063693119262878.post-88236300224263694862011-03-15T16:47:00.000-07:002011-04-06T15:25:03.401-07:00After my first tutorial...<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">After the meeting with Jenny yesterday I felt very happy about the direction of my self directed project. Arrived at my tutorial with lots of ideas and thoughts to discuss. Though I was slightly worried about not having a concrete concept to work from. My tutor discussed the various concept ideas that had been disided upon and how to research them furhter and more depth.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">It was suggested to find a collection of images and textures that inspired me and ask Jo perry to start experimenting with different fabrics and techniques. This will create a range of samples to work from when finalzing the fabrics textures and finishes later on in the design process. These samples can also be shown to Jenny and her team at the next scheduled meeting, to help provide visual aids of what the designs will eventaully look like.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">These are a few of the images I find really inspiring : </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidlnTFcmYsvaI6c8eRwTH552wlGNRsfp35eWFm373MpYCtjvytTDy4y72pW1CY8_Ohgn-yzxDxHI_aupbNnkeaFVWZKLgs8_0pVHlqREO_4HAsPnFdixDXFHCRFtOF94q6zXZwJvMJrgc/s1600/006792.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidlnTFcmYsvaI6c8eRwTH552wlGNRsfp35eWFm373MpYCtjvytTDy4y72pW1CY8_Ohgn-yzxDxHI_aupbNnkeaFVWZKLgs8_0pVHlqREO_4HAsPnFdixDXFHCRFtOF94q6zXZwJvMJrgc/s1600/006792.jpg" /></a></div><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The monster being a little man who sits in a closet typing mischievious letters</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The monster being a form on conscience</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> The monster being made of socks (really like the idea of socks over the hands)</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The world being based inside a closet</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> Having a massive amount of political reffernces</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Jenny and two other menebers of the company were present. I found this imensly useful, as the more people inolved in the production meeting to discuss ideas; meant the more feedback I got towards design ideas.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">After a breif presentation of my initial research and recap of some plot summaries of various versions of the Boogeyman. I showed Jenny and her team the spectrum of images I had found surrounding the concept of the Boogeyman.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Jenny was initially delighted with the amount of research I had collected to back up my design work. Expressing a greater intrest in the more childlike dipictions of Boogey man. Jenny and her team explained that her company tend to work more in the relms of comedy than horror and therefore are looking for a more lightherated character design for the Boogeyman. As apposed to that of the dark twisted characters previously dipiced in hollywood. As a result of this I intend to dircet my research more towards the absurdest theory and puppetry used within theatre.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">As the general concepts surrounding the story of Boogeyman tend to be quite sinister and dark, it was disided that the company would improvise there own concept loosely based on the idea and themes of the Boogeyman. This is a concept yet to be chosen and finalised however basic themes of political reference, fear and hyrachi were disided upon during the meeting itself. </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Now that I know the generalized themes of the concept I can begin my further more developed research toward these areas. Directing a more specific search towards these aspects of my design theory and development.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I have set up an account on a website called DropBox. This is an online file sharing website where people can be invited to openly share a private online folder and access the uploaded files anywhere in the world. This has made it easier for myself and the director to exchnage information and ideas freely as and when we need to. Therefore I shall upload all the information I presented to the team today onto DropBox so they can acess it in order to help them with brainstorming the finalized concept of the production. </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">This is the image Jenny and her team liked the most as inspiration for the concept and costume design. I shall use this as my main guide and refference in creating and developing the characters.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The myth based on a real man who would carry orphan babies to the orphanage in baskets or sacks in the 17<sup>th</sup> century. Victor Hugo wrote about this chracter and cited him as the origin of the Spanish Bogeyman myth. In Spain and Eastern Europe – The Sack Man – carries children away in sacks to eat them. Not a paranormal figure, but a psychotic murderer who is accepted as someone who will take naughty children, or children not home before tea. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">This was also found to be linked to an old story told by mothers, of <i>Jewish</i> men who would carry children away in the night in sacks to circumcise and castrate them.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">There are many different versions and takes on the original story of the Boogeyman, including a variety of different films. However there is always the constant theme that the Boogeyman is a dark and scary character used to either control children's behaviour though fear. This create is usually portrayed as something that lurks in the cupboard or under the bed of its victim's and only come out at night when its dark and everybody has gone to sleep. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p>I find the basic information I have found out of the concept of the Boogeyman very inspiring and now intend to start gathering images surrounding this.</o:p></span></div>Harriet Dennanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14242916895721007616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-442063693119262878.post-55379049431375640782011-03-01T15:02:00.000-08:002011-04-06T13:27:18.862-07:00The beginnings of my self directed project...<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">For my self-directed project, I have been chosen as the designer for a forth-coming performance entitled: The Boogeyman.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-right: -0.35pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">I will be designing the costumes for a theatrical company known as, The Patchwork Theatre Company. They are a small touring regional theatre company based in and around Dorset.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-right: -0.35pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">I chose to apply for this roll, as I have a deep fascination for fantasy and fictional story telling, and would like to pursue this further later on in my career. I am very familiar with the project title’s original text and find the idea of designing the costumes for such an influential piece of fiction truly inspiring. I am a great fan of horror and believe being given to opportunity to design characters as complex as The Boogeyman would be a great challenge. One I could learn and grow from. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-right: -0.35pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">I have never designed for the stage before. Therefore I feel it would be of great benefit to me as a designer to learn to work to the boundaries of theatrical design and fully understand what this entails. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-right: -0.35pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">I am very excited about meeting with my director and discussing the ideas and concepts she wishes to explore fully. </span></div>Harriet Dennanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14242916895721007616noreply@blogger.com