design ideas

 

As a starting point I wanted to link the idea of the opera to somewhere that was pivotal of the time and would give the aesthetic that I feel I wanted for the set. I thought about the idea of poverty within the times and how the characters make their wealth in any way they can, this lead me to thinking about trading and use of ships. At the time new ships weren't really built instead old ship were regenerated or rebuilt, this would link with the idea of reusing items such as clothes so I started looking at the Chatham Dockyard which is local to me at home and I looked at the ropery and workhouse. I really like the textures within the workhouse building and though this could be a good starting point for my design.