ROH Reflections

Still really undecided with which YCN brief to do, but I keep going back to the ROH one because I find it more interesting as its a new/different kind of challenge to tackle - new client, new context, new market, new audience - it would make us push ourselves. I decided to look more into it today and found the trailer video on their website below and the thing that really stood out to me the most was when the guy said that:

"We perform old masterworks a lot of the time but we keep performing them because they are really mirrors to us - and as we change, they must change with us"

"There are operas about all kinds of different aspects of the human condition"
"what unites them is the way opera can give us the language for talking about passions, about the things that really matter in life"

My initial idea is quite similar to this - The mixing of real life with opera in a subtle way. I am really liking the idea of using the mirror/reflection imagery. Like the examples that me and Becca have individually collected below, I like the idea of creating posters that portray everyday people experiencing 'different aspects of the human condition' - emotions like love, anger, loss etc. and then their reflections would be them as characters (complete in costume and all) from operas experiencing that same emotion too.

And then I suddenly remembered Tom Hussey's photography project below, where he uses the same mirror/reflection concept:

Photographer, Tom Hussey, captures moments of the elderly models completing their daily, mundane tasks while their past reflection, as attractive young men and women, stare back at them through the mirror, reminding them of the fruitful and successful lives they once had ahead of them.


Thoughts:

The problem that me and Becca have identified is that, with this brief and the idea, it would be quite hard to split up the workload equally. As I am very character based, it would probably make sense that I draw the figures, but then what does that leave Becca with?

I'm concerned that I'm taking too much of a lead into the project, so that I'm thinking most about what I can do and what I want to do whereas I should also be thinking about the skill that my partner can bring to the project.

I think at this stage it would be a good idea if both me and Becca come up with a list of skills that we each can bring to the table and decide then how we can assign what to who - I need to find that collaborative contract/form thing from last year's Responsive module... I think it would help.