time in the space

I havent found the time to blog for a bit and though I should write up the week I spent trying stuff out in the theatre a couple of weeks back. We spent the week trying to solve some of the more fiddly parts of the show; so how well the old projectors work, and getting to grips with having to carefully feed them the film. We erected the boat mast and roped it up, and looked the motor mechanism that will be attached to it. We suspended a record player in the air, and lastly played with projection on the gauze.

It felt really fantastic to actually be doing, and working with the stuff and trying things out. Sounds like an obvious thing to say but so much of it has been in my head for a while now to realise the tone and images that I had hoped to make, even on a really rough level was great. I was most suprised with the projection and unexpected depth that we got when casting it onto the gauze, as some stood behind it, it gave the effect almost of being underwater.

As the make draws nearer, i'm sure I will have lots more use for this talking space, whilst at the moment it feels a bit like the really calm bit before the chaos...