Final Draft: Find an end and make technical decisions

At this point I was very happy with my monologue. There was still two challenges I was facing: how do I use the jacket in a productive and meaningful way and how do I want the lights and sound.

Major Changes:

• The End

• Implementing lighting and sound cues

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#1: Using all the props and finding the end

Knowing the lines and putting it on it's feet again, Zois was not happy with the ending. He thought that the words I use were not strong enough, or not personal enough, the message would not go deep enough.

So I started to think about other ways and I thought maybe I could use no words for it. So I started experimenting with the jacket which I wanted to use in some sort of way. Check this out:

After an evening of experimenting and thinking of how to end the monologue I had the following options as favourites:

I was so excited that I wanted to implement into other sections of the monologue and so I did use it from earlier on using it as different kinds of partners.

I really liked the idea of being shut up by my imaginary partner, inspired by Zois feedback that my words are not strong enough. So no words but a dance would probably be, so I thought and tried it. It worked well and we both liked it.

#2: Lights and Sound

The lights were adapted to the mood. I wanted the light to underline the pace of the piece and strengthen what I said. But not make it too obvious. For example: I wanted the lights to slowly get brighter throughout the middle part until "But why?" and then let it drop. People did not realise that the lights got brighter because it was so slow. but what they realised was that the scene got more intense.

For the Beginning I was clear with the sound, I chose Overload by Audio Killers, quite early on, because it fit the piece with its style and the lyrics.

As soon as I knew I was dancing in the end, I chose a waltz but in a very romantic mood. So I found At This Moment (Slow Waltz: 28 BPM) by DJ Maksy.

Then I only had to merch that into one draft and my final draft with Tech instructions was done.

#3: The Final Draft

I marked the Lighting cues yellow and the sound cues green.