Farnham Meeting: 27/4/2016

During this meeting the Orpheus group from Farnham came down to our studios to visit us. After seeing them in their own environment, it was great to be able to show them how we work and the processes we are currently going through. I think it was very beneficial in showing them what is realistic in the time given for this project, and by giving them an understanding of our methods, we could all get on the same page with the project.

In the meeting it was also decided that Joy and Magda, (the other two designers on the Orpheus project) would concentrate on the girls costumes, as they had focused on the designs for the girls specifically. In my position of providing general research and mood boards, and having already drafted up makeup designs for the male characters, I was formally assigned with the design and sourcing of the boys costumes. I'm more than happy to take this on as it was the designs of Hades and Orpheus that I was looking into anyway.

During the meeting, not only did we display and present our current ideas and progress but we also had the opportunity to watch through a rehearsal of the acting students performing routines from Orpheus. This gave us an insight of how our props and costume will be used, as well as solid examples of personality of the main characters, meaning that deeper characterisation can be explored. I feel that the better the understanding of character, the more developed the world we create around them could be.