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.

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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!

writing colour

This turquoise coloured writing is really annoying I can hardly read what its es because of the back ground its on, isnt there anyway we can change the colour?

Interesting idea?

Gregors room on top
Living room at the bottom

Juxtaposition, in gregors room the first wall is actually the floor and the ceiling is the wall with the window on so all furniture will be on its side.
Th living room is downstairs as though the family are looking up towards gregor.
Cracks in the walls, peeling wallpaer and a hole in the floor that has been made by gregor, the bug to try and get out instead of having a door
The door in the living room shows the hospital on the outside which is symbolic for help being so near yet so far away for gregor.
tables, chairs, decorated in victorian style

what do you think? i thought it went quite well with the idea of expressionsim.

Interesting point

I was just scanning the story again to see if there was anything important I had missed and I saw this:

'His father clenched his fist with a hostile expression, as if he wished to push Gregor back into his room, then looked uncertainly around the living room, covered his eyes with his hands, and cried so that his mighty breast shook. '

So I'm thinking that the living room and Gregor's bedroom are only seperated by a door I don't think there is a hallway.

Important

This Thursday is going to be a busy one for you all: Theory followed by the showing of your films; then after that presentations for your room-set ideas. This will be at 3.30pm in the costume room for group 1 and 4.00pm for group 2. Presentations can be through Powerpoint or mood-boards (keep to a maximum of 5 boards). These boards/slides must give your tutors a clear idea of what the design will look like, the influences, style and how you intend to invoke the element of terror. This isn't an exhaustive list by any means and it will be for you to 'wow' us with your presentation. Be thororugh and very clear as to what the set will be - any delay in us approving the design will result in delays to the next phase of the project.

This is what has been put up on UCA, I don't know if any of you have seen this or even gonna look at the blog toinight but i think we needed to sort our presentation out as I think we must have a powerpoint or bards to shpw, so what we gonna do guys its tomorrow!

ideas

This is an image i found on google of one of the many versions that Kafkas book has been portrayed. The bug is hanging from the ceiling in a very plain room with dirty walls.