Waiting For Godot

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Waiting for Godot

Gemma Greaves

Digital Techniques

Waiting for Godot

Gemma Greaves

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‘Waiting for Godot’Samuel Beckett

The play was written in the late 1940’s, it concerns the lives of two tramps; Vladimir and Estragon.they are waiting for someone called Godot to arrive, they pass the time by making conversation, quarrellingthen making up and contemplating suicide. Godot doesn’t arrive and the wait for him never ceases.

The original play is set in some sort of future, I have decided to set it in the present day, using the themes in the play such as dependancy and paranoia to tackle current issues such as drug addiction and suicide

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Waiting for Godot . Photo Montage

This is a photo montage of images I have sourced for the set and costume design for ‘Waiting for Godot’

I would like the set to be based on a warehouse that the tramps are squatting in. It is dark and the walls are made of corregated sheets of metal, with industrial chains and hooks hanging down and rubbish littered everywhere.

The materials are all man-made they are hard, uncomfortable and dangerous it shows the characters are desperate to have chosen this place to inhabit

This was created in photoshop

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Waiting for Godot . Storyboard

This is a storyboard I created

to show the most suitable

images for the design of the

play.

This was created in Photoshop

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Waiting for Godot . Moodboard

This is a second attempt at a

storyboard, this time I layered

the images of the materials that

I would like to use in my set

design, I altered the opacity and

changed the effects of the

layers to try and convey texture

and mood.

This was created in Photoshop

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Waiting for Godot . Costume Design

This is a costume design for the character of

Estragon. Estragon is often referred to as the body

and Vladimir as the mind.

To show the fragile state of his body (a reflection also of his state of mind) he is hunched over walking

with a cane, his hand is bandadged and he has bare

feet to show his vulnerability.

I wanted Estragon’s clothing to show he is homeless,

It is dirty, old and worn with holes, I have wrapped

rags around his walking cane and layered his

clothing to show his only possessions are what he

wears or carries on him.

I used the clone stamp to copy textures for his

clothing and altered the colours effects and opacity

for various layers.

This was created in Photoshop

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Waiting for Godot . Set Design

This is the set design for the play, the stage is a circular pit, this allows me to visually communicate the cycle of which the character’s lives follow – nothing ever happens, nothing begins, nothing comes. The play is a loop which takes us between comedy and tragedy. The pit means the audience look down on the tramps as though in a circus ring, we are their critics, we condemn their addictions, we judge their weakness. I hope that by this arrangement for the set design it will influence the audience to ask questions of themselves. The hook and chain hangs over the pit, a metaphorical noose tempting them to suicide.

This was created in Photoshop

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3D Studio Max

This was a design for a set that we created in 3D Studio Max

I found the software quite difficult to get the hang of but I think that is partly because I haven’t used it before.

I can see how it is a very quick and useful way to design accurate 3D sets

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3D Studio Max

This is the set design created

In 3D Studio Max, here we have used

the spotlight option to draw focus to

specific parts of the set design

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Photoshop

This was the Photoshop exercise created in

Photoshop.

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AutoCAD

This was the AutoCAD exercise

I found AutoCAD difficult to use, I

think the hardest part is

remembering what each option

achieves.

I think AutoCAD will come in extremely useful in the future for creating accurate technical drawings.