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project proposal

In the next project I will conduct a scene from the opera Turandot as my tech theatre designing project.

The scene is about the process of how the Persian prince got executed, and how Calaf decided to persue the marriage. 

I will be giving proposals of how to design such a scene in multiple aspects: lighitng, sound, makeup, costume, music, and stage design. 

In the lighting part, I would like to start with discussing the lighting of each part of the scene: 1. princess passed Persian prince and walked in the palace 2. Calaf walked to the middle and exclaimed everything happening 3. People dismissed and the body of Persian prince took away. The first part I would like to highlight the front part of the stage and make the surrounding dim as the princess passes through people and the Persian prince. The second part I would like to have 2 focus that one is Calaf and one is the Persian prince. The third part I would like to highlight only on Calaf as he determined to go after the princess.

About the sound and music part I don’t think there are much to change because this is an opera and I don’t know anything about music. Then I do want to change some of the performers’ makeups and costumes. I want to make all the people passing by look more pale than what they are now. Also I want to make the princess’s costume bright red rather than green which she is wearing now because the executors and the Persian prince have a lot of red decoration to show the blood. So I think the red costume to reflect the ruthlessness of the princess will work.

About the stage, I really want Calaf singing in the middle of the stage but not on the ladders so people can see the distance between him and the princess. Maybe I will try to design another palace structure but the original one seems good now.

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