My Merchant of Venice Challenge Project

          For my Merchant of Venice Challenge Project, I partnered with Morgann, and we designed props and costumes for the Portia-Suitors scene. I sketched my designs for the costumes, and she made a sketch of her vision of the set and 3d designs of the chests. We also wrote an expository essay on why costumes, sets, and props are important in the Merchant of Venice, and specifically in this scene. I think that the creative/visual portion of our project turned out really well. We both worked really hard on it and I think they looked really good, and we had pretty solid reasons behind all of our artistic choices. I think our paper turned out all right too, but it could have been better. Also our process of writing the paper needs a lot of work. I think in the future, our paper will turn out much more smoothly connected if we improve the process of writing it by sitting down together and writing the outline step by step starting with the introduction and thesis. If this part of the writing process is more organized, our separate parts will connect more because we will both be clear what the other is writing, and how to connect our parts to it.