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Designing Shakespeare Collection - Video Interview Clip

- Budget Implications

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Designing Shakespeare Collection - Budget Implications
Filename	:	DS_SJ_vi05.mov
Short Desc	:	Fifth video interview clip with Theatre Designer Sally Jacobs
Description	:	Answer: In a funny sort of way there's no difference. I've done some of my best work for fifty dollars, you know, in a little fringe theatre in New York. It doesn't make any difference to me. I don't think, well certainly having a big budget has never made a better design. The thing is either right or it isn't. Of course you can spend more money on achieving the design and get it better and use, you know, better materials or have a sounder construction, if you can make it from steel instead of wood or whatever and then you can use it in a slightly different, in a very different way. But in terms of conceiving how to do the piece it makes no difference to me what the scale of it is. Question: Do you have a preference then? You don't, you know, mind? Answer: No, not at all. Question: What scale you're working on? Answer: Not at all. Absolutely not at all. I have to really engage with the material. That's the important thing with me. If I don't have a passion for it, I usually say no. But I haven't done a lot if you think I've been in the business since, I don't know when, 1960. I've only done maybe sixty productions actually. I counted up the other day, it's funny, yes. I mean I haven't done hundreds like a lot of people. I've sort of kept myself for the things that really, that really interest me. I'm a bit choosy.
Source	:	DS_10_05_02 (mini DV tape)
Format	:	Quicktime Progressive (video)
Type	:	Resource Movie
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 14.26 seconds