The flaming hotel

I had a meeting with Tommi and Anna-Maija about the fireman’s Comic project. We decided that I should take responsibility for the visuals of this Miniroom, since Anna-Maija is having a lot of work with the Foyer alone. That and trying out the interaction with the light detectors along with Tommi will keep me quite busy through the weekend! The show has its premiere already next week… here is a preview of the designs I made tonight for this Comic.

Pyromania

We started the day by setting some furniture on fire. We intend to place it in the fireman’s Miniroom – not just for decoration but also to give that realistic burnt smell…

An outside perspective

Today was an important day: Elina, a friend of Teijo with experience in theatre came to give her opinion and feelings about the sequence and contents of the show. We had a walk through the spaces together and afterwards a long discussion with everybody. We took some more tough decisions there, we “killed” another project, Tommi’s "Divine discourse", because we are really running out of time and still so much to do.

We also decided that for the Exploratory Area (now called the Game Area) there will be that rope pulling contest. In this way, we can make the audience decide the fate of the characters: one team for the fireman, one team for the swimmer. Will the fireman be able to return to life or will the death goddess/swimmer have the strength to force him into the death world?

Mind a bath?

Well, we continue to build the stage props. Kasia got the bathtub for her installation, and we were testing how to project pictures there.

Things turn around

Chris came back from England and we were walking around the set to get him up to date with all the changes that went on, we even discussed it a bit further. The changes in the corridors were so drastic that Antti and I are now a bit lost on what to do with it. Maybe Teijo can help with some ideas later. Also the Exploratory Area suffered major changes, actually it was abolished since there were not enough contents to fit there! We will have to come up with another idea for that space, the rope pulling contest was again mentioned, Teijo is quite fond of that.

Everybody is so busy that it’s getting difficult to keep everything in schedule… some things have to be dropped… at home I’m finishing the swimmer animation but I’m wondering will it ever be used now that the Exploratory area is gone?