Tuesday, July 25, 2006
Lit Week Static Display Updates - 2
Ok I' late for a dinner with a Singaporean family from Qatar so I'm gonna make this quick. Below is the Character list :
Character List:
Alison: Lavinia/Ophelia (Nothing for you to do tomorrow, but when if you can try and get your Ophelia drowning done as soon as possible. Send me the pictures by Thursday.
Aaron: Aaron/Julius/Duncan (2nd one' already been done so your 2 scenes are being buried in sand and being stabbed in bed.)
Weiren: Chiron/Romeo/Saturninus (Stuntman number 1. Strengthen your leg muscles. Romeo scene is pretty long and Saturninus involves you stabbing me. Yay)
Jishun: Demetrius/Laertes/Macduff (Stuntman number 2. Don' think I'l need to worry about you due to lack of weight :p. Your other 2 scenes involve dueling with Zhao Feng and Yiwen respectively.
Yiwen: Servant/Othello/Macbeth (Keep Jishun alive, smother Sophia and then get beheaded. All in a days work for you.)
Wen Loong: Servant/Lucius/Lear (Keep Weiren alive and carry Enli for awhile in the 3rd one. Your Lucius is involved in 2 scenes, 1 where you stab Weiren and the other burying Aaron.)
Zhao Feng: Antony/Hamlet (Run yourself through and die next to Michelle and duel Jishun.)
Michelle: Cleopatra (Get bitten by snakes.)
Sophia: Desdemona/Gertrude (Get smothered and drink poison. You get to die twice in 1 day!)
Rachel: Juliet (stab yourself dramatically.)
Sarah: Tamora (Get stabbed by me.)
Enli: Cordelia/Cleopatra' maid (You're taking over from Grace because she's not free tomorrow at all. The other one just involves you being hanged and later carried around by Wen Loong.)
Things to bring:
Ok these are the things each of yall need to bring/wear for tomorrow. For all those scenes where blood is involved, I'm using some water colour solvent so the blood PROBABLY won't stain. No guarantees though. Just in case bring a shirt you don't mind losing.
Alison: Nothing
Aaron: You're going to get stabbed again so bring another white shirt you don't mind getting stained. I'll also request for you to bring some kind of... Royal clothing. I know it's vague but try your best. A garbage bag too.
Weiren: White shirt you don't mind getting stained, black long pants and also a 'poison bottle'. Basically I need you to get a plain bottle and decorate it with a skull and crossbones to pretend it's poison. You'll be drinking from it by the way.
Jishun: White shirt you don't mind getting stained, black long pants. A kilt if you have it o.O
Yiwen: Black shirt and pants. A kilt too, if you have it. Also need you to bring some kind of ball which can pass off for your head. Decorate it abit as well, because we're holding it up for a pic. Don't worry if it looks retarded, it's meant to be.
Zhao Feng: Black shirt and shorts/ ¾ pants.
Michelle: I'm leaving your Cleopatra costume up to your discretion. If you can't think of anything to make you look more in character then a vibrant coloured top and skirt will do.
Sophia: Bring your own pillow to be smothered with. Also if you can, a goblet. Ask your dad if can borrow o.O
Rachel: White shirt that you don't mind getting stained, and also a neutral coloured skirt/dress.
Sarah: White shirt you don't mind getting stained, long pants.
Enli: Black shirt black pants.
Wen Loong: I'll need you to kop some sand from the jump place. Black shirt black pants. A garbage bag if Aaron can't get it. (knowing Aaron, it's probably a matter of can but won't.)
Me: Bowls, pie, 'snake', rope.
That should be it. If for any reason you are unable to get the outfit I suggested or unable to bring any of the items, CALL ME. I'll make a round of calls later tonight to make sure everyone's clear on this. Let me know if anyone has any better ideas for any of the other characters as well. Yup. Thanks all.
posted by Moca at 8:26 PM
Monday, July 24, 2006
Lit Week Static Display Updates
A01D Lit Week Static Display Tableu
So below is all the info about filming over the next few days. If you're too tired to read through it all you need to know for tomorrow is to BRING A SET OF HOME CLOTHES (PREFERABLY BLACK) AND A SHARP OBJECT LIKE SOPHIA'S SCISSORS. Yea. Sorry this comes out so late. And i have no idea why it's underlined.
Scenes to be filmed as of now are:
- Meat Pie Brothers! (Slit throat and hanged) --- TA
- Aaron buried in sand (starved) --- TA
- Hamlet & Laertes (Poison rapier exchange) --- Hamlet
- Anthony & Cleopatra (Sword/Snake) --- A&C
- Julius Ceasar (Multiple stabs) --- JC
- Othello & DesD (Sword/Smothered) --- Othello
- Romeo & Juliet (Poison/Dagger) --- R&J
- Macbeth (Beheading) --- Macbeth
- Lavinia (Raped/Be-limbed/Be-Tongued/Smothered) --- TA
- Tamora/Titus/Saturninus (Chain Stabbing!) --- TA
- Ophelia (Drowning) --- Hamlet
- Cordelia and King Lear (Hanged/Sorrow) --- King Lear
- Gertrude (Poisoned) --- Hamlet
- Duncan (Stabbed in sleep) --- Macbeth
Table of Deaths
Number | Characters | Brief Description of Scene | Props |
1 | Weiren &Jishun -Chiron and Demetrius Yiwen & Wen Loong - Servants Moca - Titus Alison -Lavnia | The sons are hung upside down at the chin-up bars. Blood trickles down their slit throats into a bowl, managed by Lavinia somehow without her hands. This is our biggest scene as it not only involves endangerment of actors but also lots of people. Photos: Throat Slit/Blood dripping/Pie? Total: 3 | 'Blood' Bowl(s) Pie o.O |
2 | Aaron - Himself Wen Loong - Lucius | 4 tables to cover Aaron till chest height. Garbage bag to cover table surface and sand poured over. Simple scene. Photos: Starving/Dead Total: 2 | Garbage bag Sand |
3 | Zhao Feng - Hamlet Jishun - Laertes | Laertes stabs Hamlet with poisoned rapier, rapiers are swapped and Hamlet then stabs him. I'm thinking the exchange of swords can be something slightly more comical. Photos: 1st Stab/Exchange/2nd stab Total: 3 | 2 'rapiers' 'Blood' 'Poison' |
4 | Zhao Feng -Anthony Michelle - Cleopatra Grace - Cleo's maid | Anthony stabs himself with a sword, is brought to Cleopatra who administers Asps to her abs. Or female equivalent. They die together in each others arms. Slightly Steamy scene but I hope the cast won't really mind Photos: Anthony stab/Cleo bite/both die Total: 3 | 1 'sword' 'Blood' 'Snake' |
5 | Aaron - Julius Everyone else | Everyone crowds around Julius and stabs him. I chose Aaron because the large surface area makes it easier for many stabs. Photos: Stabbing/Death Total: 2
| Multiple Scissors(get it? Lol!) 'Blood' |
6 | Yiwen -Othello Sophia - DesD | Othello smothers Desdemona with a pillow, then stabs himself and falls to die beside her. Not sure if we can do this near a bed. Shall try. Photos: Smothering/Stab/Die Total: 3 | 'Pillow' 'Blood' 'Sword'
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7 | Weiren - Romeo Rachel - Juliet | Romeo finds Juliet 'dead', drinks the poison and dies. Idiot! Juliet wakes and finds Romeo really dead, stabs herself and dies too! I always found this stupid. Anyway another slightly steamy scene but hopefully they don't mind again.. Photos: R finds J dead/R drinks poison/J finds R dead/J stabs herself/both die. Total: 5 | 'Poison' 'Blood' 'Dagger' |
8 | Yiwen - Macbeth Jishun - Macduff | The 2 Macs Swordfight, then Macduff beheads Macbeth. Pretty simple. The head will look hilarious though. Photos: Swordfight/Severed head Total: 2 | 2 'swords' 'Blood' 'Head' |
9 | Alison -Lavinia Moca - Titus | Ok the play has no real mention of HOW she dies so I'll make it up with what I have. Probably a stab as Will loves them. She'll be in costume. Photos: 1 | 'Blood' Costume |
10 | Moca - Titus Weiren -Saturninus Sarah - Tamora WenLoong -Lucius | This one is just pure comedy. All 4 actors stand in 1 line and backstab each other. Looks retarded and that's the idea. Photos: 1 | 4 'Daggers' 'Blood'
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11 | Alison -Ophelia | This is one scene I don't mind canceling if we can't pull it off. Either we photo her drowning in a bathtub or we do some photoshopping. Photos: 1 | Water?? |
12 | Wen Loong - King Lear Enli - Cordelia | Cordelia is hanged in prison and Lear after carries her body out into some storm and dies of a broken heart. Yet another slightly problematic scene, made worse because of rain. If there isn't any rain we'll make do with some hose spraying water. Might photoshop a broken heart for comedy. o.O Photos: Hanging/Carrying in rain/Die Total: 3 | Pray for rain. |
13 | Sophia - Gertrude Zhao Feng - Hamlet | Gertrude drinks a poisoned wine meant for Hamlet and dies while he looks on. Photos : Drink/Die Total: 2 | Nice looking cup |
14 | Aaron - Duncan Yiwen - Macbeth | Dagger is suspended in midair above Duncan, Macbeth takes it and stabs him. Shouldn't be too hard. Photos: Dagger suspended/Stab Total: 2 | 'Dagger' 'Blood' |
Yea that's more or less about it. Now I'm gonna go through the scenes and when we'll be filming them. The bulk of it will be done Wednesday after school. The scenes that WILL be done there include: 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12, and 14. Scenes 3, 4, 9, and 13 will be filmed at later dates when the cast is free. Scene 11 will be left to Alison's discretion, and Scene 5 will be filmed TOMORROW after PW. Which means everyone must bring a scissors/sharp object to school (a la Sophia), and also set of home clothes (preferably black). Please spread the message to everyone when you get this. Aaron please bring a white top tomorrow that you can change into for the filming.
I'll ask for some time during PW tomorrow to update all of you guys, but basically a list of major props that are needed are Fake Blood, and swords, so if anyone has fencer friends please ask to borrow their swords for Wed and Thurs. I'll only need 2 at any time. For the Wednesday filming, the minimum requirement for everyone is to bring a white top that you don't mind getting dirty with fake blood, and also a different coloured one. And a suitable bottom as well.
Added notes for certain scenes
- Wen Loong and Enli need not bring home clothes everyday for the King Lear scene FOR NOW. As apparently the text doesn't contain any mention of a storm but was simply Yiwen's dramatic interpretation. -.-
- We'll need to 'decorate' the Macbeth severed head
- Alison will need to be in costume for Lavinia's death. Which means the costume has to be ready by this Thursday.
Final Words
Ok that's about all I can think of right now. I know it all seems rather messy but trust in my organizational skills and that everything will work out. Call me if you need clarification on ANYTHING. Also it would help if everyone read up on the scene's their involved in so we might have a clearer picture.
Bibliography/Acknowledgements
Most of the information above came from my own brain. And from some random Shakespeare website that didn't really help that much. Jishun helped abit too. I think. I acknowledge myself for multiple hours of hard work today (which also caused me to miss Miss Universe dammit) and Jishun for doing some work which I'm not really sure what but you can be assured he was important. And of course none of this would have been possible without our sadistic masterminds Zhao Feng and Sophia.
posted by Moca at 10:59 PM