Hi Deanna–I’m Jennifer Werner (Director/Choreographer). Really love your mood board–such a thoughtful and imaginative collage that is supported by your text analysis & research. The images you’ve brought together would spark a really great conversation about how to approach an overarching design.
You clearly have a feel for the importance of what a home means to both Medea/Mojada and to the play. Your first photo of the home provides wonderful texture. I found your time collage especially helpful: you have included images that illuminate your emotional response to the play and that is an excellent place to begin.
Hi Deanna! I teach design (and other things) at the University of Regina in Canada and try and freelance design when I can. I am struck by the contrast between your mood board time and mood board place – your work on the time board is really strong and I like vagueness/abstractedness of many of the images. You seem to have been able to capture a great deal of the emotional rawness of the play in your mood board. I think you gave yourself freedom to play and experiment with time but you didn’t allow yourself the same freedom to play and experiment with place. This is just a jumping off spot so I would encourage you to take more risk and don’t be tied to the literal – play with place as much and in such interesting ways as you played with time. That being said, I think the Bosphorus Straits ( the edge of the known world) is a great place to start (more because it is a place that is unknowable…much like Medea) but also it plays an important role in Medea’s backstory. Then, I might suggest, having more fun and more sense of play and adventure with place; how are mood and place suggested and how are the moods of each of the places you’ve described suggested visualized? Ah the joy of a designer is that our work is never done but we also get to play with all the visuals of the world (which is way more fun that playing with all the words in the world). Push yourself with more play!
Ok, so the very first thing that is seen here is the picture of a woman in red holding the knife behind her back. This, while usually being a representative of a murder mystery, fits very well into both plays. Both stories are centered around women who are stabbed in the back by the men that they love and think love them back.
Next is Medea’s Chariot. When I read the script, I saw the Chariot as a much more realistic period accurate version, but I think that this one is much better than that. Its bright blue and winged sides would make it a spectacle to behold and show how Medea is different than the rest of the people in the show. It shows how important she is.
Finally, I looked at the research that you did. The kitchen pictures show the perfect time period that the home probably would have been built in and how they appear during the time of the play. When I was reading Mojada, I didn’t really think about what the walls would have had on them, butI think that the floral pattern wallpaper makes the most sense.
Hi Deanna–I’m Jennifer Werner (Director/Choreographer). Really love your mood board–such a thoughtful and imaginative collage that is supported by your text analysis & research. The images you’ve brought together would spark a really great conversation about how to approach an overarching design.
Hi DeAnna,
My name is Pam Berlin. I’m a director.
You clearly have a feel for the importance of what a home means to both Medea/Mojada and to the play. Your first photo of the home provides wonderful texture. I found your time collage especially helpful: you have included images that illuminate your emotional response to the play and that is an excellent place to begin.
really good stuff here!
Hi Deanna! I teach design (and other things) at the University of Regina in Canada and try and freelance design when I can. I am struck by the contrast between your mood board time and mood board place – your work on the time board is really strong and I like vagueness/abstractedness of many of the images. You seem to have been able to capture a great deal of the emotional rawness of the play in your mood board. I think you gave yourself freedom to play and experiment with time but you didn’t allow yourself the same freedom to play and experiment with place. This is just a jumping off spot so I would encourage you to take more risk and don’t be tied to the literal – play with place as much and in such interesting ways as you played with time. That being said, I think the Bosphorus Straits ( the edge of the known world) is a great place to start (more because it is a place that is unknowable…much like Medea) but also it plays an important role in Medea’s backstory. Then, I might suggest, having more fun and more sense of play and adventure with place; how are mood and place suggested and how are the moods of each of the places you’ve described suggested visualized? Ah the joy of a designer is that our work is never done but we also get to play with all the visuals of the world (which is way more fun that playing with all the words in the world). Push yourself with more play!
Ok, so the very first thing that is seen here is the picture of a woman in red holding the knife behind her back. This, while usually being a representative of a murder mystery, fits very well into both plays. Both stories are centered around women who are stabbed in the back by the men that they love and think love them back.
Next is Medea’s Chariot. When I read the script, I saw the Chariot as a much more realistic period accurate version, but I think that this one is much better than that. Its bright blue and winged sides would make it a spectacle to behold and show how Medea is different than the rest of the people in the show. It shows how important she is.
Finally, I looked at the research that you did. The kitchen pictures show the perfect time period that the home probably would have been built in and how they appear during the time of the play. When I was reading Mojada, I didn’t really think about what the walls would have had on them, butI think that the floral pattern wallpaper makes the most sense.