I always imagined that the technical aspects of my performance would be quite simple, for me the real importance was based on the atmosphere that I was creating and the technical aspects would purely be used to support this to their best potential. I always knew that I wanted an atmospheric piece of instrumental music to open with and I always wanted the lights to appear to be closing in on me as the piece developed emotionally as this would represent my increasing vulnerability. Due to this I decided to have a combination of general lighting and then two different spotlights.
The general lighting would be used for the more comedic first half of my piece and then I had a soft slightly larger spotlight for when I start talking about myself rather than the fairy tales and then finally a very tight, sharp spotlight for when I’m discussing the rape. Each transition of lighting will be quite soft and done gently as I think this will best suit the emotional and atmospheric development of the piece.