Planning review

Throughout this play we have had consistent production meetings and have delegated production roles. So far, the majority of the class feel that some people are doing more than others and I feel this isn't fair, we have all been given production roles and have to fulfil these roles! My role I have been given is Set Design with Chloe. Although this role is not very specific, as there are roles for props and for montage, set design is more aimed I feel

at the style and layout of the hall at Pelham and how we want the audience to look.
I feel so far I have shared my idea's with the group about how I feel the lay out should look and we all agreed on the VIP tables, and it was my idea when we had a meeting about the staging and audience a while back to have it like a cabaret theme with audience members having the opportunity to have VIP tables, in which they can reserve and have wine bought over to their table for them.

We decided to use the silver rounded tables at Pelham and East campus for this, and we are going to have 4-6 VIP tables on the floor, and then have the usual raised audience.
At my work we got a completely new refurbishment and we had a lot of tables and chairs that needed to be taken away, and I did ask my manager if we could use these black tables, but they never got back to me and then they told me that they had already been taken away. This would of been really handy, but the tables at my work were black and square, and the ones we are using are round, and I feel round ones look better and they are not as big as the square ones. Also the work tables are heavy,and the rounded ones are not heavy.
I have also asked family members if they can let me borrow their ashtrays, as they have glass clear ashtrays, which will look really effective for our performance, as the actors are going to have to have ashtrays and we want to have some on the VIP tables.
I feel I have given my ideas and opinions on most aspects of the show, particularly the staging and set design, but also costume, sound effects and props. I think when creating a show everyone should listen to EVERYONE'S ideas and hear what everybody has to say about it.
I always respect and appreciate the group's ideas, and I feel so far our show set up is looking and sounding really good, and I want to create the ambiance as much as I can for the audience, as I want it to look like how a speak easy looked back in 1930.

Our rehearsal plan has been OK, but I do feel that we should have had more time spent on the scenes, as I feel sometimes we only did a scene a couple of times then moved onto the next scene, and we did not really go back to any scenes until when we had our first run through a couple of weeks ago! So I feel we should have spent more time on the scenes, but I understand we are under a time schedule,  but I feel in some rehearsals we did not really get anything done, due to focusing on other things or just not really concentrating. I pushed for a run through many times,but its hard to have a unanimous decision in our group because everyone has different opinions on the rehearsal schedule. 
But I am happy with how the play is coming along, I just feel production week is going to be really tough because we need to focus on the transitions and the energy of all the scenes, these our the main weaknesses I am identifying at the moment. I feel the characters are really good, and the structure and historical meanings of the scenes are strong. It is just the way the scenes move from one to another which needs attention, because a lot of the time we never just go from scene to scene, we always stop, talk, or wonder what we are doing. I just really want this performance to be amazing as it is our last ever performance all together and we have all worked really hard on this performance and it is not an easy project at all as Brecht is quite complicated and political.
This week and next week I want to focus on running the show and getting the transitions running smoothly and up the energy in ALL the scenes, we are all so capable we just need to push ourselves further.