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!