Hey Glorp!
This day has been an unnerving one. I've completely forgotten that STN, the national film compaction I'm going on, is in eight days. EIGHT! I'm prepared to miss almost every class, I finished some of the work I had for the week I'm going to miss. But, I forgot to plan a day to film this project! We had a schedule but it had to get scrapped since our teacher thought we needed more time to research. Now, we are going to film on Saturday but we still have so many things to do!
- Location scouting
- Last weekend Zach and I went to Vista View park and found the perfect place to film. We where in a rush though so sadly I didn't get to take photos.
- Getting props
- Body bag
- We need somewhere to keep the body without actually dragging a human body. I don't think Emi can carry all that weight.
- Emi's character outfit (including hat, string, and pants)
- We need a way for Emi to hide her long beautiful hair until the end, where it is revealed she's a woman. A hat is the easiest way to do this. Note for Future Renn: Please look into the history of cowboy hats.
- The string is to tie up the character's hair. Back during my research, I didn't see anything on hair ties, all the hairstyles I read about where put together with hairpins, hair gel, hairnets, and other such beauty products. Meaning that this cowgirl would have to get resourceful and tie up her hair with a string.
- We are trying to hold back the fact that Emi's character is a woman until the end. So, her having a skirt kind of gives it away.
- Shovel
- Victorian shovels didn't have plastic pieces like the kind we have now a days. They where a solid piece of metal shaped into a shovel. However, since we have a budget of $0, we can't afford an authentic Victorian shovel. Sadly, we will have to use a modern shovel, which sucks. (Victorian shovel is on the right, modern shovel is on the left.)
- Dirt
- Used to create the illusion we are digging without getting finned for property destruction. Sadly, none of us own a field of grass.
- Cross
- Emi's character is religious and we chose to symbolize this with a cross. It's going to be on a necklaces. Women in England during the Victorian era wore ball dresses adored with jewelry, so I doubt this is historically inaccurate.
- Final script
- I know, I know, we shouldn't be working on the script this late. But, I'm not sorry! Western films are very slow, so my group thought it would be best to adjust to this instead of having the film go by the speed we find natural.
- Final storyboard
- Emi is in charge of this, it should be done by today.
Wish me luck with the execution! I think this stress is going to trigger my male pattern baldness 3 decades too early.
I have read enough articles on the Victorian era to be able to know things without remembering where they are from, regardless, here is a list of resources I quickly scrambled together. I'm pretty sure everything I say is covered here.
- https://www.mimimatthews.com/2017/09/11/a-simple-coiffure-basic-hairstyles-for-victorian-women-of-moderate-means/
- https://www.mimimatthews.com/2017/06/26/the-victorian-passion-for-auburn-hair/
- https://www.mimimatthews.com/2015/10/05/the-beauty-rituals-of-19th-century-empress-elisabeth-of-austria/
- https://vintagedancer.com/victorian/victorian-fashion-colors-fabrics-1840s-1890s/
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