JERICHO: AT THE MOURNER'S WOODS

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DESIGN ASSOCIATE

Atmospheres

Conceived and illustrated by 'Pea' Pearson

Designer Jesse Musker

Design Associate Theo Wyatt

Lighting Designer Andy Wynne

Animations by Billy Pearson

Concert Photographer Kathryn Brown

Every 32 years, on the third of the month of May, countless people disappear from the smallest villages across the country. They are not missed, for their pitiful irrelevance in society deems them overlooked, forgotten.

How could so many people vanish without announcement or trace? To which dark land are they drawn to?

This is the story of The Sorry Fool.

Concert Design.

- RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT -

A collaborative creative music performance, with post-punk, rock, dark melancholia genre music performed by a band all costumed in woodland-themed attire and a set dressed to be a forest clearing in the 'mourners' wood’. Telling a folk-story underscored with themes of self-discontent, cult/pagan rituals, and transformation.

- INITIAL CONCEPT & RESPONSE-

The initial response board was a collaborative Pinterest board made and contributed by Pea, Jesse, and myself over a discussion of the 'feel' of the show. Visual response collages were then made by Jesse Musker.

- RESEARCH -

Continuing the visual research, we began to assign elements of the woodlands to our band members, individually, bark/trees, bones and moss, leaves, vines, mushrooms, and birds.

- DEVELOPMENT -

From sketches done by myself and Jesse, we developed the design concept to also assign specific time periods to each band member - tying into the story of people going missing every 30 years. Initial Costume Sketches alcohol marker on paper, mood boards by Jesse Musker.

Because we had no budget for this show, the set was going to be made using repurposed scraps and what we could source closer to time.

- COSTUME & SET ILLUSTRATIONS -

Following individual mood boards made by Jesse Musker, and her notes, I illustrated costume designs for the band, with the plan that we would roughly follow them but mostly follow the 'vibe' rather than specific 1 to 1. Colour Pencil on wood.

Even more 'conceptually' planned was the set design, which we were not going to follow except for the feeling of 'trees' and tied cloth. Marker on paper.