LAYLA BROOKES PROJECT BLOG

Layla Brookes Nottingham Trent University BA(Hons) Theatre Design

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Show photos from our performance of 'Bloody Silly Business' on Thursday 8th May at Waverley Theatre

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Puppetry rehearsal photographs 16/04/14

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Final Year BA (Hons) Theatre Design students have recently taken part in a collaborative installation project with The National Trust Estate Calke Abbey, resulting in an exhibition around the estate.

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I had a go at making a video of our Installation, "Insight" which was at Calke Abbey in March 2014.

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Set planning, building and painting during the Easter break;

A few of us from the "Bloody Silly Business" production team worked on certain aspects of the set over the Easter break to allow more time for rehearsals and choreography details within the show during the summer term.

Building the set;

Cutting planks to size

Creating 7 decks to resemble the trenches within the set

Distressing the wood to look older and worn

Painting the set;

Adding to the distressed look through brown/black/green tones

Planning the set;

We made and rendered a 1:25 scale model of our set

Placed it within the exhibition ground plan to acknowledge the exhibition poles that will be incorporated into our set

Myself and Bryony used this process to help us work out the rig plan.

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Creating a technical drawing on AutoCad for my Calke Abbey "Insight" installation frames.

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"Long Way to Tipperary"

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I've uploaded a rehearsal video from the 25th March '14 where we incorporated lighting and sound into our washing line scene. Steel deck will be used in the show as a platform for the 'Washer Girl' but due to time restrictions we practised without. 

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Incorporating Lighting and Sound into our set design for the washing line, shadow puppetry and legs scene in our World War 1 verbatim puppetry show "Bloody Silly Business".

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Myself and Lisa Berkoff planned out the set, ground plan and where each scene would take place for "Bloody Silly Business" today.  We worked through scene by scene and noted where we would ideally like the audience to be at what point. 

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The 10 Best Portrayals of Mental Illness in Modern Movies - Film Racket

For actors, it’s a cinematic gift, a chance to play a characteristic as well as a character. For directors, it’s a chance to explore the psyche Read More

Film Racket's 10 best portrayals of Mental Illness in Modern Movies

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Let’s Talk About Movies:

MENTAL ILLNESS PORTRAYED ON SCREEN What makes it so appealing to the audience?

"For actors, it’s a cinematic gift, a chance to play a characteristic as well as a character. For directors, it’s a chance to explore the psyche in visual and narrative detail. For audiences, it’s a window into a world they will (hopefully) never experience. When combined in the just the right way, without histrionics or spectacle, the results can be incredible." - Source

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I went to see "The Threepenny Opera" today at Nottingham Playhouse which I found incredibly interesting! It was different and had me transfixed for the entire show!

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Graeae Workshop / Open Access INCLUSIVE APPROACHES TO TEXT Graeae Theatre Company's Milton Lopes and David Ellington explored creative approaches to text for hearing and deaf actors/participants in this workshop on 18 April 2013. The training aimed to increase the confidence of participants working with deaf and disabled people and to help them recognise the positive aesthetic outcomes of creative access. This was a unique opportunity for participants to be supported to develop creative ways to layer access into their performing arts practice.

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