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Designing Shakespeare Collection - Audio Interview Clip

- Approach to Text

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Designing Shakespeare Collection - Approach to Text
Filename	:	DS_SJ_au04.mov
Description	:	Question: How do you begin your your path? Where does it start the approach to a new assignment? Answer: It usually comes through the director. And somehow in my first response to the text or the music or whatever. I have to hold on to that until I've had the first session with the director. So I start in a very practical way, I just saturate myself in the material and wait, put the ideas on the back burner and try not to allow them to sort of come forward and fix me in any way. I have to stay open until the work with the director gets you to that discussion. And then when the director and me really put our heads together and talk about what we feel is in the piece and what we feel we need to look at, then I can let the ideas respond to that. So it's very much a two way thing... that springs out of that first meeting with the director and from then on it goes on like that. You just bounce things backwards and forwards. As ideas come up I manifest them in pieces of model or drawings or materials or whatever. We get the response to that and then I go forward, forward, forward from those at each stage until it seems to be right. An then the next stage starts which is, we've got the right idea now we develop it and then that's when you start doing your finished model or more finished, you know, costume designs.
Source	:	DS_10_05_02 (mini DV tape)
Format	:	Quicktime Progressive (audio)
Type	:	Resource Audio
Rights	:	This clip may be used for educational purposes only, any commercial use of this material requires permission from the copyright holders. Misuse or misrepresentation may result in legal action. Copyright holder: Christie Carson, COMPH, Royal Holloway University of London.
Length	:	1 minute 25.09