Project #3 Response

The show I chose was A Midsummer’s Night Dream by the one and only William Shakespeare. The main concept that I wanted to keep for the show was the whole fantasy dream feel to it. Though I don’t want it to go to the extreme, but I imagine the show moving like a kaleidoscope. In kaleidoscopes the pictures and colors are constantly changing. In the show the scenes and colors will be constantly changing, coming in and out keeping a new surprise for ever moment. For the color palette I wanted dark colors with a contrast to bright colorful plants and costumes.
One place that I thought about most for the inspiration of how the set looked was almost like Wonderland. No matter what version you see of Alice in Wonderland it is always a blue scale with accent colors such as greens, pinks, yellows and purples to contrast against it and make those specific colors pop out to the audience’s eye. Another aspect of the set that I wanted was multiple levels to the set. There is a picture in my morgue of research that had ladders going to different platforms at different heights. I like having these levels to give focus to different parts of the forest. Another option to the levels was to make some of the levels part of a tree trunk. This can give the actors more space to enter and exit from and give it more of a fantasy feel of having the fairies come in and out of their homes built in the trees. I would like for the tree trunks to be reach all the way to the top but have random strands of leafy branches coming down.
While in my research I came upon a rendering of fairies resembling different flowers and that made me want to incorporate that into this show. Along with the flowers though I wanted to also give the fairies more on a Mother Nature feel and have them also be different plants, water, sky, and maybe some as bugs. One thing that I also think about for inspiration for the fairies costuming is the fairy scene from Fantasia when they are all going around and bringing the seasons to Mother Nature and her animals. For the color palette I imagine brighter colors with accents of neutral colors to tone them down.
For the lighting of the show I want soft edges and warm colors. I don’t want the stage to brightly lit so it gives it a dream feel to the scenes. If there will be trees involved in the set then, if possible, would like hash light coming in at different angels. This will to be give the feel of light coming in through the branches. A thing that I would like if necessary is lanterns for some of the characters. If possible having the candles lit will be best, but we can always resort to light bulbs if we can’t get a compromise with the fire.

Project #3

Nick Bottom's Costume- like the brown color of the donkeys face and how gentle they look.

Elizabethian royalty costuming.

Set for an outdoor theatre and liked the different lighting they have added.


Set for an outside garden, I like the pathway covered with the blossoming tress.

Fairy Crowns- like the webbing of the wires and how it resembles a blossoming flower with water droplets on the petals.

Set for an outdoor theatre. Though its outside and gives you the feel of being in the forest, I dont know how I feel baout the plant walls which looks like there could only be one enterance.

Set Pieces- interesting that they used hands and their fairies were played as puppets.

Set- Liked the levels and the blue sceme and the different levels they added to the set.

Set- Set during the Great Depression. Not something I would do, but was an interesting concept.

Set- Liked the flowers in the back ground and the Wonderland esscene to the forrest.

I like the hair and makeup for Nick Bottom here and how both set of his ears blend into his hair so it almost looks natural.

Color Palette

I like the contrast between the browns and the blues, however having a full donkey head might be too much and could be a struggel for the actor.

I like the time of the play being in a dream secquence.

Like the color and the look of these two flowers. Want big flowers placed through out the set in bright colors and exotic looks.

This is how I imagine seeing the fairies in their colorful costumes and bringing bright lights.

Costuming- each fairy relating to some sort of flower, butterflly, or some part of mother nature.

Color Palette

Lighting- For both pictures having a brighter light come from the ack and streak of the sun coming in through the branches of the trees. Like the bigger trunks in the bottom picture.