2nd meeting

Once we had come back together to discuss what we had been looking at started to make decisions on the rooms, one of the most important of which was the time and the place that we would be setting the story, as we do not have a director this decision was left to the group which is where we had a few problems, most of us agreed that setting it the same time the story was written which was a 1915, a few people though other times such as one suggestion that maybe we could base it in the 1960's with psychedelic colours and patterns, or a modern day set meaning the whole story would need re-looking at to see how it would be changed to make it more modern. Neither of these ideas were accepted by the group so we settled on 1915, but realised that we would be looking at early architecture and furniture because the family were not rich enough to have everything completely new. I think that if we had decided to do modern or in the 60's this would have been really interesting, for the 60's we could have looked more into the movies being made at the time in the psychological thriller genre and what was influencing them, then used this when designing the set. Or a modern day version thaw it wouldn't have been as interesting to make we could have looked at the genre now, what audiences today feel make this a movie thrilling to watch, the seen how the text can be twisted to meet modern conventions.

We then talked about where it would be set, Czechoslovakia had already been mentioned before but along with this we had said Russia and Germany but it was definitely that area of the world we wanted to set it, I had mentioned New York but no one had been very interested in that idea, there was then a heated discussion over which of these three countries was the best, but it was noted that Kafka had been born in Prague and so we decided to set it there. This meant that we needed to look at Prague 19century architect and turn of the century furniture.