First scene preparation monday

The first scene "intro & Ending" is coming up this monday at noon. We will be filming tuesday around the same time at my moms house. 8094 s. beaumont dr. Sandy ut 84093. the costumes/ make up we need prepared for monday to try out are

Troceed - Disquise costume
- Mask

Varin - Ragged clothes
- Binds
- Bald cap
- Facial hair
- Contact lense

Herons aid - Same costume
- Eye patch

Be excited and if you have any questions just comment or give me a call. We need all the hands we can get! thanks again! Please take a look at our schedule on the home page for more clarification.

Areas of design

Hello, here are summaries in each of the following areas giving suggestions and ideas of what we are looking for

Make up- Just a heads up this is also being tied in with making the masks. So its pretty much anything to do with the face. Look at the colors of the birds, some groups in the culture represent certain birds. Each main character represents one so look at colors for that. You will also be dealing with the Masquerade make-up which let me remind you. the boys will have more bright colors than the girls. Also here you'll be looking at the masks that they wear for the dance. So you'll have to work with the "Hair department" to coordinate this. For any further ideas or questions please contact Sterling or myself.

Costumes - we are looking for lots of cloth, even many shirts and pants torn up and put together in a creative way. Look how other cultures use cloth. Also this is a very organic and bird related culture, give me something creative like burnt strawberries made into a necklace or something. Or like some sort of cloth wrapped around his leg with feathers. There are 3 points in the story that deal with significant costuming. 1. everyone in their day-to-day clothes. This can be a simple basic creative layer. 2. The ceremony/blooming, anything to do with peacocks or birds again a lot of feathers. mostly the peacock though since it is the symbol of this ceremony. 3. the Masquerade, which is going to be the dance where the boys are going to be more colorful than the girls, but the girls are the ones with the big feathers. The costume team will work on the main roles costumes, which are the most important right now, with Amani. If you have any more questions contact her or myself

Hair - Linsey will be working with hair. I need creativity here as well. We looked at a lot of weird Japanese hair styles. I like the random strands of hair that poke out everywhere, I like the punk like mohawk, cause it almost looks like a cockatoo. Put feathers in their hair, and some interesting colors Anything that symbolizes for birds will work. Linsey has a lot of pictures, if you have ideas or questions contact her or myself.

Props set - Look for interesting things to hang from the trees. We talked about lots of twigs making a lantern with feathers. Also something that hangs from a tree that they can pick seeds or pastachios (sorry for spelling) off of like birds would. Kate will have a list of significant props that we'll need to keep an eye open for. For further questions contact her or myself.

Thank you for the help, still gather everyone you can. We will be going to the Tracy Aviary for the actors once it gets warmer, but I highly suggest everyone involved coming along to see the behavior of the birds and for inspiration. If you have any interesting ideas your welcome to post pictures and comments, for the first few weeks we are just looking at our options and designing. Thanks again :)

Revelations

I'm going to use this space to post any strange ideas I receive. For example. Dec. 28, 2009, I was inspired by sculptures made out of sculpey. I feel that this is good option for many of the things that will be hard to shoot otherwise. I would like to employ the use of models in the movie to accomplish that. I would also like to use a few prosthetics... either of the gelatin variety, or of the foam latex variety. I want to employ them in a way that won't be seen as a prosthetic. I think a good basis for everything is to imply before you suggest, and to suggest before you tell. That's all for now.

Tracy Aviary

So I've been doing a lot of research on birds and I think it would be good for the design team to all go to the Tracy Aviary sometime to take a look at these birds. I also think it would be kule to get the actors to come along as well, for they will have personal reason to. I think we should wait a while before we make this trip but it is something I wanted to throw out there.

Birds

Birds are a big major theme in this movie. Look at colors for specific birds even exotic birds for examples of colors and styles to use for girls and guys make up. IDEA: (Maybe Men have the more bright and viberant colors and girls have the bigger accessories like feathers and stuff. Just like how it is for birds in nature.)