reflection 2.21

This week we are working on adding tech to the scene. Through lighting, we can build up the tension and create atmosphere more clearly. Firstly, we decide to give every skit a theme color. We used blue wash in the first skit to show the sadness and loneliness of the girl, and red spot light on Joyce to express her anger and evil, and purple wash for Ruth’s scene, expressing her helplessness and confusion. Also, after the first draft we found that the transition is not effective as we expect, so we decide to add more elements of viewpoints like kinesthetic response so we can react to others pace and play around with distance. Also we apply lighting to help us enrich the transition. In the beginning, we have usual house lights to show the scene is based on daily situation, and in the first transition we have the white lights strobing to show the chaotic state of the characters, which also differ from the colored lights we used during the skit. And lights will become more chaotic each transition to add more layers after each skit.

And we have also come up with an ending. Because we want to leave an open ending at last so the characters will address their problems, and each character will have a moment to show that their life has to go on. I fall asleep, Joyce close the computer and Ruth leaves for school, so the audience will have their own imagination of whether the characters have been relieved from the struggle or not.

What we have to do next week is to add voice-over into the scene. For the first skit, because I am reacting to the voice over so we have to experiment whether we should have someone to stop the soundtrack before or leave time for my lines in the soundtrack.