When I started this project my idea for an adaption of A Midsummer Night's Dream was just an idea and I didn't have any idea of how it was going to evolve or of any kinds of finished piece/s I may do. This meant that to begin with I started with some of what I have called world building. I started by renaming the characters and and figuring out any slight changes to the characters themselves and the roles they play. For instance the group of actors is now a band and the Prince is just a really popular influential person. I then figured out the outline of the new story which once I got the setting and characters sorted was relatively simple, except for one part which is very tricky. While doing this  I did a lot of preliminary character design work as well.
The other part of the 'world building' process I was developing was the setting. I wanted to set this contemporary version of A Midsummer Night's Dream in a large relatively sprawling city but one that's in a bit of the dumps. My first thoughts on this was Baltimore and Detroit (a bit less extreme though). Dale suggested Park Hill in Sheffield as a good place to base my setting off. I had a look at it online and there is quite a lot about them that can influence my work and they do have the same kind of tone I'm looking for for part of the story. However it was too much of a cut off tower complex of apartments cut off from everything else. I want something more sprawling and varied that naturally flows together.