Hey guys tried uploading my designs yesterday and today but i'm having technical problems here at home. So I'll just outline my ideas for the living room.

A fireplace and chimney breast
Warm terracotta walls but starting to age
A grimy widow
Door to Gregors room is surrounded by rot, so room darkens around the door
A couch (chaise-lounge type thing)
Two armchairs (all centred around fireplace)
Wide skirting board
Another door, maybe two

I have some photos on my other computer that I'll try uploading here later :)

Saw these images, I like the colouring plus all the textures these sets hold. The idea of clutter and collected pieces everywhere creates a lot of atmosphere I think, let me know.

Hi guys, just wanted to check that we are still having a meeting tomorrow morning at 10? Also I was reading posts and thinking about our meetings before, and I was wondering at what point in the story is our room set, this may sound very odd but how the rooms look will be considerably different depending on when they are, the end will be different from the beginning. What do you think?

finished reading the text and a thought that came to mind is to leave the bedroom pretty bare with just filth and dust etc and maybe the couch which doesn't seem to be removed. This leaves a bigger budget for the living room which will need quite a lot of furniture an detail in order for it to look realistic.

Wall Idea's

I did a random Google search today on 'Metamorphosis Franz Kafka' and found 3 relevant pictures which could be of some help to are set build project.

Two are off walls with bug's crawling around one of Gregor turned into a Bug.

Let me know what you think guys! Adam.

I was thinking...

I was thinking about the layout and furniture in the bedroom. I think we should just leave the three pieces of furniture in the room, one being the writing desk; I know in the story it is removed from his room but Gregor is attached and obsessed with his writing desk and we don't want to completely empty the room, the other two items would be the couch and the bed; there is no indication in the story about the bed being moved and this will also tell people it is a bedroom and the couch is used for Gregor to hide under.
What do you guys think???

Idea based on todays discussions

I designed another ideas for the conjoining of the 2 rooms and sketched down a few ideas.
The living room will look like a normal everyday room. The door to gregors room will be in the middle, and when you walk in to it the perspective of the room will make it look extremely small and claustrophobic, giving it a weird eerie feel, with the presence of gregor the beetle living in it. The room will be one behind the other so you wont see gregors room until you walk through the door in the living room. i think this will give a better effect and will relate to the idea of expressionism.

Metamorphosis stage play

This is the website that i got the images from of the stage play of The Metamorphosis. some of the photos will be extremely useful and there are videos on the site too.

http://vesturport.com/theater/metamorphosis-hamskiptin/

Room Designers

If you werent with us after the presentation thing we drew lots to determine who got what room to design primarily. if u have ideas for the other halfs room shove them on here, its just so we dont end up with sixteen concepts for both rooms.

Living Room:

• Emily
• Hannah
• Sarah W
• Karen
• Eleanor
• Aikaterina
• Jess W
  
• Laura

Gregor's Bedroom:

• Emma
• Jess F
• Ben
• John
• Adam
• Stuart
• Jo
• Sarah L

Again if you weren't here we're bringing in some designs and research for these rooms on monday.

P.S - hope blog looks alright for everyone now
also if anyone is having trouble becoming an author on the blog let me know monday morning or as a comment on here and i'll reinvite you. You accept it by clicking the link on your email.

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After alls these meetings and discussions we have had as a group I am now confused to what we are actually doing what am I supposed to be drawing and researching??? Because everything keeps changing!