Midsummer

Briana Williamson 3rd

Theatre Tech Essay 1/9/12

On my rough drafts I tried to go with an jagged wavy type line for my font. However, on my final draft the lines are more jagged then anything. The reason I look for this look is because of the setting of the play. When you thing of Queens New York you think of rough and ragged and that what I was trying to go for. The primary color I used in my entire project was a brick red. Many of the text boxes I used on my final draft are brick red. I used this color because when I think of any type of red I think of passion and love. And when u add the twist of brick red to the equation it makes it more dark and secretive which fits in perfectly with the setting and with the lovers fighting to love who they want. My texture of the project is bumpy and a rough looking texture. The backgrounds of my pamphlet and flier are that of a almost balled up paper bag of some sort. I chose this type of texture to tie into the setting. As you can see from the paragraphs above, I have really tried to get the idea of this setting well visualized, because of the fact that this is such a different setting then from the original setting of A Mid Summers Night Dream. The dimension of this project I haven’t really put into consideration as much as other aspects of this project. However in my specialty item (Creole Ragged Church), I did not want to make the item to big nor did I want to make it too small. So I made it the size a sort of small medium size. I chose to do this item because of the Creole People (Fairies). The reason I chose to do my setting in Queens, New York, is because of the fact that I am from there. I find it easier to do things in life that I can relate to then to things I cannot. Although I did not live in the so called Ghetto of Queens, New York, I had many friends that lived there that I would visit and vice versa. I got to experience being in that type of environment first hand. Also, on my flier...