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Designing Shakespeare Collection - Presenting Ideas
Filename DS_SK_au07.mov
Description Question: How do you present your visual ideas? Answer: Books, loads of books usually, inevitably, because you know, you can never find the page that you want at the right time and the Director is looking at you going "well, I don't really see that's relevant" and then you try and explain your idea and sometimes it can be a really obtuse little kind of something in the back of your brain that just triggers, I don't know, it's like something, you can struggle, I can remember struggling for weeks and weeks and weeks in front of a model box knowing it was wrong, and David would come along and you would force this thing and David would come along and go "well, that's not what I had in mind" and you know four weeks of work and a beautiful model is down the drain like that. You just have to get rid of it and you might only have a week to go, but you have to know that you know, that you can do it and only time and I think experience teaches you that the ease that you will be able to do it, I mean it's like anything, you know, experience teaches you that something will happen. You might not have the best model in the world, but you will have a much better set at the end, a much better performance, play, if you take those dangerous routes and that can only come about from you and the Director working together and him being, feeling that he can say to you "that's crap, that's not what I imagined", you know and it does start from little rough white models and they might all be thrown out and you have to do more little white models or you have to bring in lots of other reference. Sometimes the only thing that would get in the way of that would be actors, famous actors, but that's another question you know.
Source DS_18_06_02 INT-06 (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 35.01 seconds

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