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I decided on a play idea about parents dealing with their children’s nightmares and different ways the situation could play out. I briefly outlined some possible scenarios for interruptions in this and thought about the layout of the stage. I had a zoom call with Jonathan to work through possible lighting ideas for this and he introduced me to the software Capture. I told him my idea currently, and we thought about possible ideas to accommodate for each scene. I already knew quite a bit about lighting and how it would work in the theatre from my Technical Theatre module last term as I worked with him then too. I told him about what I was certain on and the ideas that were probably going to be included but potentially could be taken out. I decided on blue spotlights over the two beds immediately and initially wanted just natural coloured light from the centre of the stage light a light in a room, so we made a vague idea for this. I tried to describe the stage design in enough detail that he could work with something, and even though he said it would be good enough for him to create examples with he asked me to draw out my setting and send it to him for our next zoom meeting so that he could create definite examples for what I wanted.