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

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

Tuesday May 29
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.


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
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

Monday May 21, 2012
   Officially the first day of the Internship this summer. This morning I spent 1 hour reading Murder on the Nile.
To Do:
I need to email Ellie. By June 5th I need to have a character chart, and preliminary costume research.