The props department worked well together and we shared ideas throughout the rehearsal period and on the facebook great expectations blog. we worked well as a department but we also spoke to cast members about their personal preferences and opinions on their probs because they props where quite low scale we asked some people (who could) to bring in there own costume. Before we could choose the different props for each character.

We went through the script and looked for any references to props that we needed. After reading about Mr.joe we immediately agreed that she should have tools and a carrot for ben to bite on to show the simplicity of mr.joe but also to show the eeriness of his character.

 Me and ben made a list of all characters and ideas of each specific prop that every character could use e.g. Jaggers – brief case. These pieces props would be a key part of telling the story of Great Expectations as they portrayed what each character represented as well as making the production visually exciting. 

.Me and ben researched what Victorian upper class and working class people and there style to see what they would use in those times. Key information from this research was that upper class women would have worn lots of makeup but this was the same as the lower class woman and this help us characterise the character of ms.humble (me) . Upper class men would have large hats and pocket watches and breif cases. This allowed us to then research specific props as we knew what we were looking for. 

We then decided that we would have to ask the cast if they had any appropriate props for there character this was the best opption meaning we would spend any money and the money could go to something else, and thankfully many people did. 

We were able to collect chairs (given by the theatre), skirts by the school .the brief case jaggers used was mine i used my own skirt and corset and romy brought in a aprun for ben. .We discussed with the director that cast members should use their specific piece prop and everything else should be black or white. I think I could have improved in this job role by having better communication director becuase we dicied what we wanted to use before talking to her then some of it had to be cut also and keeping the cast members updated more. If we knew we did not have a budget we could of spent less time researching and more time figuring out what prop people already had. I think our time management skills were god because everyone knew what they were using  in time for the show and no one felt displeased with their final props.