Jackie and Me
The new show!! This one is about a boy in the present day who travels back in time to 1947 to meet Jackie Robinson for a school report. He learns about discrimination (which he faces at home as a Polish boy in the neighborhood), anger management, and inspiration. I spent about an hour last week reading it, and my next step is to write a summary, and maybe some basic history around the time. I wont really get going on this play till I come back from vacation the second week of July
work so far: 34 hours
Friday, June 22, 2012
I have a bit of catch up to do from last week.
Murder on the Nile
This project I am officially calling done. I looked through my work and I think it was about 10 hours of work all together, although I did not keep as careful track of the hours as I would have liked. I learned from this project that I really love research. I did not want to design but I really enjoyed putting the clothing together with the time period. I am still not sure if the play is going to be set in the 40s or the 30s, but I am glad I got to do the research for both side by side. I did all of my research on the internet (for easy access and ease of sharing the information). Although I would like to break into some other types of sources (which may be more interesting and more accurate). I would like to improve on the accuracy of my research, including distinguishing between American fashion and English fashion of whatever time I am working with. Research is definitely something I would like to continue in the future. I am excited to be at the beginning of my own collections of research. Probably the two most frustrating aspects of this project were trying to find images of Cannons and trying to figure out how to organize the entrances and exits in the most helpful way. It seems to me that each play will have to be organized differently depending on the number of characters, scenes and quick changes. I look forward to the challenge again with the next show. I am going to try to get up to the Peninsula Players at some point this summer and see this show!
Murder on the Nile
This project I am officially calling done. I looked through my work and I think it was about 10 hours of work all together, although I did not keep as careful track of the hours as I would have liked. I learned from this project that I really love research. I did not want to design but I really enjoyed putting the clothing together with the time period. I am still not sure if the play is going to be set in the 40s or the 30s, but I am glad I got to do the research for both side by side. I did all of my research on the internet (for easy access and ease of sharing the information). Although I would like to break into some other types of sources (which may be more interesting and more accurate). I would like to improve on the accuracy of my research, including distinguishing between American fashion and English fashion of whatever time I am working with. Research is definitely something I would like to continue in the future. I am excited to be at the beginning of my own collections of research. Probably the two most frustrating aspects of this project were trying to find images of Cannons and trying to figure out how to organize the entrances and exits in the most helpful way. It seems to me that each play will have to be organized differently depending on the number of characters, scenes and quick changes. I look forward to the challenge again with the next show. I am going to try to get up to the Peninsula Players at some point this summer and see this show!
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Monday, June 11, 2012
Friday, June 8, 2012
Yesterday, June 7
MacBeth
I spent 6 and 1/2 hours with Ellie in her apartment doing a series of repairs, adjustements, closures and labels.
Murder on the Nile
I think all the research necessary is already done (for both the 30s and 40s), and most of the paperwork as well. I will add a bit of research about what was going on in the world at the time. Please let me know if there is anything else you need
Hours this week: 13 and 1/2
MacBeth
I spent 6 and 1/2 hours with Ellie in her apartment doing a series of repairs, adjustements, closures and labels.
Murder on the Nile
I think all the research necessary is already done (for both the 30s and 40s), and most of the paperwork as well. I will add a bit of research about what was going on in the world at the time. Please let me know if there is anything else you need
Hours this week: 13 and 1/2
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
Murder on the Nile
Saturday I realized that although the play had been published in 1949, Agatha Cristie wrote the play in 1938. So I did an hour of extra research on the 1930s for the show. Apparently the director has not yet decided when to set the show so I spent 2 hours today finishing research on the 1930s and 1940s. Finding research on Canon clothes has been the hardest part. But I did find out that clerical outfits are interesting and enormously varied. Canon can also mean 2 different things:
MacBeth
Today I made the pattern, cut, and sewed the three capes in one go. It took me 4 hours. The surger broke part of the way through and it took Ellie 15 minutes to fix it. I made one cape without surging, which Ellie took to a fitting today. She also took the belt, which unfortunately I had not started, but she is painting it tomorrow in Pewakee. So I will have the day tomorrow to work on my own stuff and will spend the day with her on Thursday.
Here is the first cape:
Hours this week: 7
Saturday I realized that although the play had been published in 1949, Agatha Cristie wrote the play in 1938. So I did an hour of extra research on the 1930s for the show. Apparently the director has not yet decided when to set the show so I spent 2 hours today finishing research on the 1930s and 1940s. Finding research on Canon clothes has been the hardest part. But I did find out that clerical outfits are interesting and enormously varied. Canon can also mean 2 different things:
Briefly about Cannons:
All
canons of the Church
of England have
been secular since the Reformation,
although an individual canon may himself also be a member of a
religious order. Mostly, however, they are ordained, that is, priests
or members of the clergy. Today, the system of canons is retained
almost exclusively in connection with cathedral churches.
MacBeth
Today I made the pattern, cut, and sewed the three capes in one go. It took me 4 hours. The surger broke part of the way through and it took Ellie 15 minutes to fix it. I made one cape without surging, which Ellie took to a fitting today. She also took the belt, which unfortunately I had not started, but she is painting it tomorrow in Pewakee. So I will have the day tomorrow to work on my own stuff and will spend the day with her on Thursday.
Here is the first cape:
Hours this week: 7
Thursday, May 31, 2012
MacBeth
Today I finished the black belt, and made the grey one. The grey belt was much shorter, making it much easier and faster. It took about 2 hours today to do the entire belt.
Here are the two belts (sorry about the mess on the desk :)
Murder on the Nile
Today I did about 2 hours of research. I also changed the privacy settings on the documents so you should be able to edit both the Murder on the Nile paperwork, and the research folder. The folder is currently divided into the way I googled it: 1940s dresses, suits, shoes, hats, ect. I have not started dividing/ organizing them into potential character ideas (partially because I have not gotten there, and partially because I do not yet know the vision).
Total hours this week: 12
Today I finished the black belt, and made the grey one. The grey belt was much shorter, making it much easier and faster. It took about 2 hours today to do the entire belt.
Here are the two belts (sorry about the mess on the desk :)
Today I did about 2 hours of research. I also changed the privacy settings on the documents so you should be able to edit both the Murder on the Nile paperwork, and the research folder. The folder is currently divided into the way I googled it: 1940s dresses, suits, shoes, hats, ect. I have not started dividing/ organizing them into potential character ideas (partially because I have not gotten there, and partially because I do not yet know the vision).
Total hours this week: 12
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
MacBeth
Today I finished the black belt (I am working on one grey one and one black one). There isn't much grey fabric, so I will have to piece it together. I showed Ellie the black one, and I just need to touch it up and serge it off.
Murder on the Nile
I continued to work on Murder on the Nile paperwork stuff. It now has a character scene breakdown, a (potential) costume plot, and a character analysis/ description section. I also have started research, at this point all it is is 1940s/ 1948 dresses. eventually I will try to break it down by clothing types and maybe characters depending on time.
Hours this week: 8
Today I finished the black belt (I am working on one grey one and one black one). There isn't much grey fabric, so I will have to piece it together. I showed Ellie the black one, and I just need to touch it up and serge it off.
Murder on the Nile
I continued to work on Murder on the Nile paperwork stuff. It now has a character scene breakdown, a (potential) costume plot, and a character analysis/ description section. I also have started research, at this point all it is is 1940s/ 1948 dresses. eventually I will try to break it down by clothing types and maybe characters depending on time.
Hours this week: 8
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
This morning I spent an hour on the Murder on the Nile Paperwork, all it is at the moment is a character scene breakdown, and a guess at number of costumes per character by scene. I meant to do more research today, but that is what tomorrow is for.
After that I met with Ellie for an hour. I learned about Optimus theater, about the cut of the play, and about her vision and inspiration for the designs. I also got to look at the designs themselves. I do not think I had enough questions to ask, but I was mostly taking in information and eager to get started sewing. She gave me a project (working on the belts for the witches). Pictured below is her designs, and the beginnings of the first belt.
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I spent three hours in the costume shop today, and did not get as much done as I hoped to. I have only been away from sewing fro two weeks and I already feel like I can't remember how. So it wasn't smooth and I don't have enough grey fabric for a second belt, but I think things will go much better tomorrow. Sometimes it takes a day to warm up. The belt will be covered with clusters of red and black beads.
For tomorrow: Death on the Nile research, finish belt, get fabric for second belt
Hours this week: 4
Friday, May 25, 2012
Friday May 25
I spent about 45 minutes today creating the character scene breakdown sheet. It is in a google document form so I think you can access it and change it. For the Stewart and the 2 Beadsellers I simply put on&off because they have so many entrances and exits. I wanted to check if that was ok. Also I wanted to put page numbers but wasn't sure if that would be useless information if we have different copies of the play. At the moment it is organized in a way that you can tell where each person is for their entrance and exit, but you can not tell in relation to each other. I am going to continue to work out an organizational system for this but I have to admit, it is especially interesting with so much on and off and no scene break down :). I also received an email from Ellie and will answer her later today.
Week in review
It was a slow start to this internship (I had a paper for another class to finish). But I am excited about the up coming work. I have started the character scene break down sheet. I am exploring how to pass information back and forth by blog, and I will soon be working with Ellie on McBeth. She said she has finished rendering and is starting to drape the main characters.
Work this week: 2 hours
I spent about 45 minutes today creating the character scene breakdown sheet. It is in a google document form so I think you can access it and change it. For the Stewart and the 2 Beadsellers I simply put on&off because they have so many entrances and exits. I wanted to check if that was ok. Also I wanted to put page numbers but wasn't sure if that would be useless information if we have different copies of the play. At the moment it is organized in a way that you can tell where each person is for their entrance and exit, but you can not tell in relation to each other. I am going to continue to work out an organizational system for this but I have to admit, it is especially interesting with so much on and off and no scene break down :). I also received an email from Ellie and will answer her later today.
Week in review
It was a slow start to this internship (I had a paper for another class to finish). But I am excited about the up coming work. I have started the character scene break down sheet. I am exploring how to pass information back and forth by blog, and I will soon be working with Ellie on McBeth. She said she has finished rendering and is starting to drape the main characters.
Work this week: 2 hours
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