I decided it would be good to make a separate post on the light, video, music, costume, make-up and hair notes considering our piece, since we have been talking about these things during multiple different rehearsal sessions.

LIGHT, PROJECTOR & MUSIC
   In our original space, we thought about giving all the audience members their own torches, so that they would have the power, who they follow and what they see. But after changing our site, we saw the opportunity to play with shadows and decided to change it to LED-lights with white light. It is very simple but we wanted to have the focus on the movement and later on the projection.
   The video we discussed would be quite chopped up and wouldn't have a narrative, since we didn't want it to take too much of the attention, but rather work as a way to make story we are telling even stronger. We are going to also film some of our shadow works for the video, but I have found some old home videos from the internet to kind of create the happy childhood memories that the speaker in the poem misses, or never had.
   It didn't take us too long to choose the music. We had a clear idea from the beginning that we wanted to have a very simple music track in the background just to create some mood. I found David Buechner's 'Music for Strings' and played it to the rest of my group, and we all agreed that this was the song for us.

COSTUME, MAKE-UP & HAIR
   For the costumes, we thought about having it all black at first. We wanted something simple, but black wouldn't work with the projector and turned it to white shirts, to bring more attention to the video. We want to have flowy white shirt that will follow our movements and have maybe even a slight pajama-looking effect, to represent the sleepless night of someone trouble and depressed.  The make-up would be neutral, except we would make our eyes look a bit tired, even messy to follow on the sleeplessness.
   We are not yet quite sure about the hair, Chloe suggested for us to have half-up, so that we wouldn't have hair on our faces when performing, but still wouldn't just have it up.