This is my idea for my set.

I have the idea to re-create my childhood bedroom. With my piece being about a bedtime story, I feel that with remembering what mysurroundings were back then, I might find it easier to use emotion memory.

In terms of placement in the space, my bedroom would be set up at one end of the space and the audience being placed at the opposite end.

Set: As you can see above there will be a bed in the middle with two night lights or lamps either side, I’d like a small chair in the space also to allow for movement positions during the piece. There will also be a rug (though thats not a deal breaker if I cant) with bandages lay around the space. I will also have three small boxes in one area of the space and one large box in another area. These will be explained nearer the time – dont want to ruin the surpirse! I want the audience to feel comfortable but also feel the inncoence of being a child again so my idea is to have bean bags, teddies, story books and cushions and other things to portray that child like element, with bandages lay around the audience area and night lights or lamps around the edge of the audience. I also plan to have bed sheets, attached together, around the back of the bedroom behind the bed with a projection of tinkerbell on it, I had a giant tinkerbell drawn on the wall behind my bed.

Lighting: My idea is that I dont want to use any of the rigged lights, just fairy lights, lamps and night lights around the space as mentioned. I want to keep it very simple and I want the audience to really feel as if they are walking into a childs bedtime and their bedtime story is about to be told.

Sound: I plan to have only instrumental music – maybe sound effects, they may come with development – my reason being is that my piece is heavily worded (as its a story) so I dont think it would work with lyrical music.

This is the main idea for the aethestics of my piece, I’m prepared for it to change slightly but no major changes will occur now.