Portion of the Process

During our brainstorming session for the table-top, I contributed the idea of a transformation from love to hate.
I was thinking of beginning with picking a gender, and I personally wanted this transformation to be from a guys perspective
And using the storyboard breakdown
we would have selected the bedroom to be our our setting, an intimate area often used to express the persona of the individual,
as well as providing an escape of some sort from the harshness of life.
The room would begin with a basic design
bold colors, slightly disorganized, and more masculine touches.
and as Love began to make an appearance, the room would gradually change to show the presence of a woman
slightly tidier than before, maybe a dainty robe, a hair brush
essentially evidence of the merging of two lives.
Then when the separation would occur,
ultimately the shift to hate
The room would become disheveled
shifts in lighting would be appropriate
all items used to convey the feminine presence of love would be shoved in a corner
and eventually the room would become clean
almost barren, slightly stiff
possibly a picture frame faced down
and a darker tone.

My contribution to the actual set design of agriculture to industrial was to gather the greenery used for the project.
Gathering the materials was slightly odd
on my way to our group meeting I just grabbed anything green and remotely earthy
my immersion into nature actually caused me to be late
but I created our little platform of botanical life with my fellow group member Kim.
And the overall process of the table-top helped me grasp this idea of how precious nature is, and the environment
People don't pay much attention to this anymore
But can you look at a city and not wonder what used to be there before we came along?
Before the super markets, shopping malls, and suburbian madness
there was a place untouched by the destruction of material greed
and its a slightly utopian belief to think that places like that can exist anymore.
But when the rareness does come along
and I do find a place, not tainted by the grasp of society
I will respect, and I will appreciate

--Christina Benvegnu