FMP Log- Joshua

FMP-10/11/13^th March

I feel that we are heading down the correct path with regards to the development of the scenes, namely the contributions that each and every team member conceives of, no matter the area of their contribution whether it be lighting, audio, background design or costumes. Recently those responsible for stage managing have supplied the latest development:  to give an approximate measure of the rooms depicted within the indoor scenes and to compare that to the available space within the Emily Davies Studio, also to weigh this against the requirements and space that other objects and props will need, such as the sound desk, televisions and the seating space. However I’m sure that the innovator will have taken all this into consideration of their idea and they will probably have moved beyond this stage. However if a recommendation can be made by the author, I will suggest that particular attention be paid to the locations where more than one scene occurs as that with careful attention, these connecting locations could be used to reduce the overall size of the on-stage reconstruction of the Overlook by means of reducing locations that only contain one scene to the status of ‘temporary’, meaning that these locations would be assembled from the parts that comprise the other, larger scenes.

For the scenes in ‘Freezer’ and ‘In the Freezer’, more different props shall be needed than the others that we have acquired so far as in that for these scenes, we will need several cardboard boxes, (food boxes would be the most preferable so as to stack inside the ‘freezer’). To correspond with the plethora of background symbolism and hidden imagery, we will need tins of ‘Calumet’ because i: within the film, the hotel is built upon an Indian burial ground and the symbol upon the tins is a cartoonish Native American, ii: the Calumet were a tribe that did dwell in the area that the hotel is built upon in the film and iii: the tins arranged on the shelf within the first showing of the freezer are neatly stacked and arranged, during the scene in question (‘In the Freezer’) the cans are stacked in a haphazard and unordered manner, thus making the labels difficult to read in their entirety and revealing only fragments. This is commonly believed to be a reference to the broken treaties between the natives and the new settlers in the days of the colonies.