Today we were clearing out our rooms to be able to set up our props for the performance the following week. My room consisted of three separate rooms, all of which required attention and details completely different for each individual room. Our main concern was the two back rooms we were in charge of as they were covered in props from previous performances. We needed to clear out these rooms to be able to start planning where and what we could put in the two rooms. This task was as hard as I had expected as the whole group and some people from other groups helped us clear the room out. Another concern was also moving the props out of our other working space once they had been moved from the back rooms. This task was also helped by other group members as they took some of the props we had cleared out for their room. Some of the props were kept by my group as we thought they would work well in the particular themes of our rooms.
For each individual room we had different themes and scenes that would take place in each room. For the main room we would have a computer room were workers would be constantly be looking at the profiles of the visitors and reporting their findings to O'Brien or myself. There would be a podium in that room for O'Brien to make his speeches and this podium may be raised so whoever enters will know the hierarchy of the world they have just entered. There will be a projector to project the digital doubles onto and any other information.
The first back room will be O'Brien's dressing room. We thought it would be an interesting and also slightly comical comparison to the dull lives of the other citizens by having rows of different coloured shirts, blazers, ties and shoes. It also shows that even though the ordinary citizens are told that everyone has the same as they are one unit, one mind, one mouth, one person, the inner party members have a more luxurious lifestyle, undermining the foundations the world of Airstrip One was built on.
The second back room will be O'Brien's office. This is where he will write his speeches and have his meetings. All his files and profiles will be here and other various documents available for the audience to look at. We also wanted to add some empty glasses and wine bottles as in the film, O'Brien is shown drinking wine, which in this world was a luxury unknown to the normal citizens. This would make interesting interactions when other characters come into both the back rooms as it will be a puzzling experience. they have rations on their food, clothes and necessities, whilst O'Brien has all the luxury a man could wish for.
After we had cleared out the rooms we had to decide where to put the props that we had found and the ones we had brought in ourselves.
Props List
Computer Room
Desks (6)
Chairs (5)
Wheeled chair
Computers/laptops (6)
Podium
Stand
Filing tray
Dictionary
Paper
Paper weight
Pot of pens
Dressing Room
Dressing Table
Mirror
Perfume
Make-up
Chair
Clothes rail
Suits and shoes
Ironing Board
Iron
Vase
Office
Desk
Chairs (2)
Filing tray
Filing cabinet
Posters
Bottles
Pen Pot
Snow Globe
Whiteboard
Map
Lamp
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