white card presentation feedback

For the white presentation I made sure that I had a suggestion of the design that we wanted for the play. I had the shapes of the building at each end and the shape of the stage that we would be using, also a few of the crates.
Everyone really liked the concept and the design and they felt that it would really work within the space and that all the themes of the play had been met and that we just needed to think about some of the bits within the design. The main factor was that the canopy might be too low and would effect the sight lines of the people in the top balcony, so this would either need to be changed or scrapped.

They really like the addition of the favelas around the balconies because this would integrate them into the design and make it seem like the audience are the people that live in the favelas and are overlooking the conflict taking place on stage.

Talking to my director we also came up with a few new design features which include using mirrors for the windows of the church to enhance the fact that the state are trying to create a façade so people cant see in to what they are doing and it reflects the image of the brothel at the other end of the stage.
We also discussed how the floor might look and we decided that it would be quite nice to carry on the effect of fading in the floor as well as the building but make the floor towards to church be more well kept and not so trodden but the floor at the brothel end more faded and trodden and have bits missing.

To give the production political context a suggestion of having some of the characters at the beginning reading papers with Pablo Escobar's picture on the front and possibly posters on the buildings so that people would understand the political setting and explain the choice of location.