Me and Sophie came in early today and decided to work on some of the transitions while we were waiting. We were missing a big transition between scene 12 and 13, going from Givola's flower shop into the funeral of Dullfeet. We wanted something very upbeat to contrast the threatening end of scene 12 and morbid setting of 13 and Sophie came up with the idea of creating a dance for it. We used the above song as our inspiration, since it had a good beat in it. Unfortunately we couldn't actually use this, since it is not a 193's song, nor near the era at all. It is an electronic swing song from 2009. So, we changed it into the second song shown. Me and Sophie came up with a dance with Givola starting to conduct the flowers and them starting to dance with him. As this is going on, I will rise to Ui on stage and we will have own little dance to switch the mustache . HERE are some of the ideas we had for the dance. This dance ended up fitting the second song quite well also, we just had to tweak some bits here and there since the beat of the song is a bit slower.
Then we cracked on with scene 13, which historical context I have talked about HERE. After the dance, the people on the stage will leave to go behind the audience with a snapping movement and to get the coffin. I will be left on stage to put on my coat etc as the Voice of the pastor starts speaking at the same time. People will come carrying the coffin and place in the middle of the stage, gathering around it mourn and then leave soon. We set the scene so that Giri and Givola will remain behind the coffin when Ui and Betty will be set on either side of thee coffin representing their two different sides, but also to show that his husband is dead because of this business. Our Political opinion of scene is that Ui doesn't care about the funeral nor Dullfeets death, but is after Cicero and Betty's support. He is at the funeral to talk about this, because he sees this as a weak moment for Betty, thinking this would make it easier to convince her to join Ui team.
I really feel this is the scene that shows Ui's evil side properly and his confidence that has been rising with each scene. I've been wanting to show this side of him and I feel I can do it by taking my time saying the lines and talking even in a patronising way to Betty, as if he knows he has already won. Towards end, when Betty is not budging in with Ui, I want to have his agitation rise up and him lose his calm exterior and show his true colours as the scary and evil person he has become.
I also tried out the make up for the show properly this time at home. I have bought a black and white face paints that we can use for the show to create the make up. I don't feel it is necessary to use any other colours, since we do want to create the feel of a black and white movie. I talked about the make up before in THIS post. This time. I did the make up with putting a light white base and then adding black eyeliner to my eyes and re-drawing my eyebrows in a more thinner 30's style. Thin eyebrows were in fashion for women at that time, not so much for men, but I thought the thin eyebrows might bring on a more stylized look for the make up, even something that is almost clown like. I do not know yet if this is something we want to go for with our show, or create a more dark and serious make up. I do feel the make up shouldn't be as neat as I made it, and in some of the pictures when I have smudged the eyeliner, I felt the look got better. The make up could even evolve as the show goes on, getting smudgier and smudgier, as if we would have been rubbing our faces because of frustration.
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