Preperation

We had a long list of things that we needed to get such as magazines, monitors, love hearts, costumes and all sorts. First we thought about costumes and we didn’t know where to get them from because we knew that none of our actors would have posh suits and 60’s jackets and we also needed to find a dress for Monroe and a wig so that we could make it look as realistic as possible. We started by calling loads of costumes shops around the area to see weather they had the dress but unfortunately none of them had it. We then ended up asking the schools technician weather we could borrow cloths from the costume cupboard and found luckily the exact dress she needed and loads of suits and jackets for the dancers to work and we even found some bowler hats for the crew members to wear. We didn’t bring any trousers because we thought that people would have them. However this showed to be a problem because on the day some of them didn’t turn up in black trousers and had genes on this was a really big problem because when we got to film it started looking less like a 60’s film set and started looking more modern day. However we changed the positioning of one of the dancers so we don’t see him as well. That weekend I was able to get to a costume shop and get a Monroe wig which was good and realistic so that was the costumes done.
We then had to find all the bits and bob that we needed. We found an old directors megaphone from one of the acting teachers offices. The next thing we needed for the studio scene was director chairs however we could not get hold of any so our media teacher agreed for us to borrow his sun chairs for the day. We where then going to cover them with black paper but again we were unable to find any so as our only solution we had was to put jackets over them so you couldn’t see the colour. We did this because if we left it without the jackets then it would have been distracting for the viewer. We then needed to get an old camera. We had herd that one was made and may be in the theatre department but when we went they said that they throw it away so we had to compromise and make it ourselves so we got old cardboard boxes form the kitchens and cut it out two reels and a sense and put it on a thing box and painted it black. This worked really well because There was a light behind it on set so you just got the silhouette of it and it looked really realistic and I was really pleased with it. We also had to make the love hearts out of card board as well and paint them. The love hearts didn’t really make much difference but I think it was good in a sense that it was attention to detail. That was all we needed for the studio set but the for the office set we needed a lot more. First we needed the walls which the media depart provided for us and then we needed desk which we got from the nearest class room which worked well. Something that I thought would be hard to get hold of was the monitors but Oleg brought in his laptop which looked good and then there the other three we asked around the school and found them and borrowed the DVD’s off of people. One of the media teachers had an old trunk full of old magazines from the 60’s and an old 60’s camera which looked really good. We also borrowed a white board from a class room for the suspect board. We needed to print out loads of pictures from internet and drew on them and also I got a Marilyn Monroe book.

Marilyn Costume
Show Scene
Marilyn Monroe:
· Marilyn Monroe Pink Dress
· Pink elbow length gloves
· Diamond necklace, earrings and bracelets
· Blonde short curly haired wig
Dancers:
· 9 black suits
· 9 pink sashes
· 9 white bowties
Crew:
· 5 Trilby Hats
· 16 Coloured suits (not black)

Marilyn Prop List
Office Set:
· Posters of Marilyn
· Pictures of Marilyn
· Documents
· Ash tray
· Desk light
· 4 television monitors
· Laptop
· Bin
· Lots of paper (crunched up bits as well)
· Pencil pot with pencils and pens
· Old newspapers
Show Set:
· Black round tables
· Directors chairs
· Sound boom mic
· Loudspeaker
· 9 love hearts 30 cm high (provided by students)
· Black fan
· Clipboards
· Mugs
· Make-up
· 50’s camera
· Clapper board

The location for us was really easy because we know we had to do it in the studio because one of the scenes was of an office which you can make by bringing in desks and laptops to make it look real. The reason why we decided not to use and actual office is because by using the studio we can have any lighting that we wanted and it was easier and quicker because we didn’t have to move around the equipment. The second scene was of a 50 studio so the studio was perfect. We had full control of the lights and we had access to tracking devices for our shots. We needed to think about how we were going to set up the office in the studio because the floor needed to be painted red for the studio scene so we decided to split the room in half and then after doing the office scene we can take it down quickly and to the studio shot.