SG/GK notes

[nakedbee]

Here are a few rambling lists on schedule, locations, and costumes. If all goes well, I'll have the first of the Barbie storyboards up later on today.


Schedule
Feb - transition, museums, reading

Mar - museums, reading, written storyboards, costume list, prop list (Jen), visual reference, location list

Apr - barbie storyboards (goal = 25 stanzas per week), costume descriptions, prop descriptions, prelim location scout

May - revise storyboards, costume sketch, prop design, location scout & logistics plan

Jun - casting call, prop making & buying

Jul - finalize casting, start costumes, continue props

Aug - costumes & props & set pieces

Sep - costumes & props & set pieces

Oct - shooting

Nov - shooting

Dec - shooting

Jan & beyond - layout, photoshop, finishing


Locations
Interiors

• Camelot hall
  - huge, with high ceilings, large double doors for dramatic entrance; walls can be tapestry & fake stained glass covered; round table is up on a dais, covered with a canopy of jeweled tapestry; other tables for the visiting guests are off the dais
  
• High Desert (HD) hall with fireplace
  - large, high ceilings nice but optional; real fireplace a big plus; we can construct false front and still have a real fire, although come to think of it I could probably photoshop it anyway (fake front with black hole + real fire in some other fireplace)
  
• HD Gawain bedroom
  - large enough for bed, door, window; if necessary closet and mirror can be another room; high ceilings cool but not necessary
  
• HD chapel
  - altar and alter panel and cross, with hanging lights at a minimum; pews would be awesome; stained glass windows a treat, but faking them probably even better
  
• HD stable
  - half wall dividers and rustic wall paneling can transform any room
  
• HD Host bed
  - all we really see is the bed and bed curtains and maybe a snippet of floor (which can be a rug)
  

Exterior Buildings

• Camelot chapel
  - California mission
  
• Camelot courtyard & exit road
  - stone wall and dry brown grass and wide dirt road/trail
  
• Traveling campfire
  - Joshua Tree?
  
• Traveling vista 1: forest/scrub/chapparal
  - Mt Baldy, San Gabriels, San Jacinto
  
• Traveling vista 2: meadows/plains
  - generic low Sierra meadow, Palm Springs, Mojave, Anza-Borrego desert
  
• Traveling vista 3: mountains
  - generic Sierras
  
• Traveling vista 4: coastal cliffs/beach
  - Pt Reyes, Monterrey, Pacifica, Marin headlands
  
• Traveling: sleeping on ice-covered rocks
  
• Traveling: muddy forest near HD
  - Muir woods, Edgewood park
  
• HD from afar
  
• HD drawbridge and gate and moat
  
• HD courtyard
  - high wooden fence with dry brown grass and maybe snow?
  
• HD exit/arrival road
  - hill trail
  

Wilderness Locations

• Deer hunt
  - plain with hills in view
  - valleys of said hills
  - stream to trap deer, in valley
  
• Boar hunt
  - marsh (high Sierra meadow with winding brook and pondy areas)
  - craggy hillside with boulders next to a small lake
  - more wide open pretty areas above treeline with boar hiding places in distance
  - stream to trap boar, wide banks
  
• Fox hunt
  - pretty landscape at sunrise
  - brushy maze near some trees
  - hedges
  
• General snowy hills
  
• Snowy hill above green chapel
  
• Green Chapel valley with water and mound and boulders

Costumes
Overall costume ramble:
If one of our post-apocalypse assumptions is that there are no large game animals (no deer, no horses) then where are they getting fur and leather? Plant-based materials only seems way too limiting. I'd really like to use fur since it's mentioned so often in the text. Maybe small animals are still around and they use rabbit (and other small mammal) fur. Leather is practically required for the fetish outfits (since PVC and vinyl are too technologically advanced). I guess leather could at a stretch be human, so let's assume we get leather no matter what. Perhaps they have small domesticated animals only - enough for fur and leather and milk and meat, but not large enough to ride for transportation and not adventurous enough for sport hunting. So wool would be OK then. Silk should be fine, too, since that's insect-based (silkworms were imported to North America in the 18th century).

general costume types by scene

• Section 1
  - modern refugee clothes, maybe military
  - line of kings
  - camelot christmas feast wear for everyone, 1000 ad medieval robes in mexican colors and trim; use sequins and sewn-in jewels and beads to add sparkle; lots of gold jewelry, probably some headdresses, at least one priest in a black outfit with white at the neck
  - camelot servants
  - camelot hounds
  - GK fancy clothes
  - GK's horse fancy clothes
  
• Section 2
  - basically the same garments for day of the dead feast
  - gawain fancy quest clothes & degraded travel versions
  - gringolet fancy quest clothes & degraded travel versions
  - simple ninja outfits
  - body paint/costume pieces for the other monsters
  - high desert feast wear for everyone, ~1000 AD medieval robes in asian prints with silk cord knotwork trim; cloth can be shiny but there should be less lavish jewelry and no beading
  
• Section 3
  - hunting party attire for nobles
  - hunting hounds
  - hunting horses
  - deer
  - boar
  - fox
  - hostess special outfit for day 3 seduction
  - Gawain special outfit for evening 3 exchange
  - other variations on feast clothes for Gawain, Host, Hostess, Morgan
  - hd servants
  
• Section 4
  - winterized servant/guide
  - servant's horse (reuse one of the hunting horses)
  - gawain new travel (new surcoat and cloak)
  - gringolet new travel (new jacket/cape)
  - green knight (same as in section 1)
  

detail by character

• Gawain
  * camelot christmas feast
  - knee length cape
  - over-tunic, above knee length hem, 3/4 sleeves
  - tight under tunic
  - tight hose
  - shoes
  - belt
  - dagger in holster with thigh straps
  
  * quest
  - tight silk coat (long sleeve, mid-thigh, worn under mail)
  - cloak, fur-lined, fastens at throat
  - steel shoes
  - leg armor (probably chain mail)
  - thigh straps
  - knee plates fastened with gold
  - chain mail coat
  - arm armor
  - gloves
  - surcoat (sleeveless, mid-thigh length, worn over mail)
  - spurs
  - silk belt to hold sword
  - lots of gold decorations & fasteners
  - helmet: visor with heavily embroidered cloth, circlet of diamonds
  
  * traveling - same as quest but cloak and surcoat should be muddied and tattered
  
  * guest robes
  - same pattern as at Camelot, but different color/pattern/fabric/trim
  - rich robes (selected from the choices they bring him), flowing skirts, well-fitted
  - then later a costly cloak, embroidered borders, furlined, hood
  - guest robe variations: mix & match initial robes with eve 3 robes for in between days
  
  * mornings in bed
  - morning 1 - naked
  - morning 2 - turtleneck? some clothes at least; balance opportunity for skin versus humor of him covering up in self-defense
  - morning 3 - same as 2
  
  * evening revelries
  - evening 3 - floor length blue bliaut (tunic); well-fitting surcoat; blue hood, all with ermine fur trim
  
  * section 4 - same as quest but add green belt and either replace cloak and surcoat (or clean & patch old)
  underclothes
  shiny plate
  shiny mail coat
  red overtunic, embroidered velvet with stones and lined with fur
  sword
  green belt (double looped around waist)
  
  
• Green Knight/Host
  * green intro outfit; same for sec 4
  - tight coat that clung to his sides, knee-length
  - mantle, fur lined, with hood
  - hose
  - gold spurs on silk bands
  - riding boots
  - belt with metal decorations
  - jewels
  
  * main host outfit
  - similar to Gawain's feast outfit in cut
  - under tunic - long sleeve, knee length
  - over tunic - 3/4 sleeve, knee length
  - hose
  - belt
  - shoes
  - knee length cape with matching but separate hood
  
  * feasting variations
  - for 2-19 (Christmas eve party) Host has a hood as part of his outfit
  - maybe make one extra tunic and cloak & then mix and match
  
  * hunting (same clothes all three days; let them get muddier)
  - standard cut outfit (tunic & hose & cape), but in more foresty earth colors; brocades as borders but not as main fabric
  
  
• Hostess
  * church meeting
  - red dress, breast and throat 'bare displayed', overgown mid-calf length and 3/4 length and low V neckline
  - undergown floor length and wrist length and keyhole front left unbuttoned/open
  - high pearl headdress
  - belt
  - cloak
  
  * feast variations - mix and match from her seduction outfits (other extras can wear whatever she's not wearing)
  
  * seductions
  - seduction 1, new dress, medium scandal
  - seduction 2, another dress, slightly more scandalous
  - seduction 3, floor length mantle, lined and trimmed with white fur (that she takes off soon after arriving in the room); jeweled hair thing; face & brow, breast & back all naked; tunic/kirtle/skirt (whatever it is that the belt is around) - maybe one of those open-sided over coats that she's wearing with no underdress; green silk belt with gold accents; ring, gold, splendid stone
  
  
• Morgan
  - wimple around throat & chin & forehead; milk-white
  - ornate, frilly fabric headdress/circlet thingy
  - overdress, floor length with neckline at neck level and big sleeves (to mark as high status)
  - under chemise
  - cloak, furlined - to mark as old and high status
  - feast variations: at least one more overdress
  
  
• Gringolet
  - gold fringed saddle
  - bridle and bit decorated in gold
  - needs to be fetishy and skimpy without look too impractical for the winter - think ski bunny
  - flared leggy-legs with fur trim
  - leotard/hose underneath
  - fur trimmed hot pants
  - red caparison (that cape-like cloth covering the horses back and legs) = fur trimmed flare arm bolero jacket with hood
  - red breastplate, crupper (saddle to tail strap), saddlebow, and sidepanels = some sort of harness arrangement
  
  
• GK horse/Host horse
  - green outfit: can be slightly more magical & less practical; should include fantastical green horse shoes
  saddle upon silk, embroidered with butterflies and birds in green and gold
  breast band with pendants
  crupper (strap that follows the spine and anchors the rear of the
  saddle to the horse's tail)
  enameled bit
  green stirrups
  saddle with green gems
  embroidered bridle
  hair knotted with green and gold
  dazzling stones
  gold bells
  - hunting outfit: more practical, basic black with brown leather accents
  
  
• Guinevere
  - tight underdress
  - tight overdress with wide borders at T-neck and sleeves
  - belt
  - cloak
  - crown
  - elaborate hair with colored ribbons
  
  
• Arthur
  - tight undershirt
  - hose
  - long tailored overrobe with 3/4 sleeves
  - cloak
  - belt
  - cape
  - crown
  
  
• porter
  - winterized servant outfit
  
  
• guide servant
  - winterized servant outfit
  
  
• boar
  - tusk weapons
  - shield
  - boar head headdress
  - tunic-like thing
  - rope belt
  - shapeless cape, knotted
  - rag shoes
  - cross gartered hose (criss cross from ankle to knee)
  
  
• fox
  - long red hair
  - homespun tunic, mid-calf, elbow length sleeves
  - chemise
  - headwrap/mantle/scarf; maybe she's just walking past (hair covered up) and her scarf slips and that's why they go after her, 'cause of her hair color?
  
  
• deer
  - males: male deer have antlers which they shed sometime in winter
  - females: only reindeer females have antlers (which they have in Dec/Jan, while the male reindeer have lost theirs); some types have short stubs (like 1/2" round knobs); since it's humans anyway, I think the women just have smaller ceremonial antler headdresses
  
  
• camelot hounds (guard dogs/pets)
  - ears (or pigtails)
  - waggy tail
  - paw gloves and shoes
  - sleek/tight bodysuit
  
  
• hd hounds (hunting dogs)
  - ears (or pigtails)
  - waggy tail
  - paw-like gloves and shoes with claw-spike weapons
  - sleek/tight bodysuit
  - poodle-like fur cuffs at wrists, ankles, neck
  - collars & leashes
  
  
• hd horses
  - tight pants with legs flaring into hooves
  - harness with reins
  - ears (maybe a hoodie with ears, hood elongated to give the horse head silhouette)
  - tail
  - wheeled, one-person chariots
  
  
• camelot horses
  - are there others than gringolet? only if we do an outdoor joust sequence in 1-5 to introduce horses. probably best to make them the same as the hd horses
  
  
• camelot nobles (both genders)
  - fabric: silks, satins, shiny cloth in vibrant colors (teal, fushia, orange, yellow, lime, etc)
  - trim: tons of jewels, sequins, metallic trim, metallic embroidery (or paint)
  - jewelry: lavish, large, ornate gold and silver
  - hair: lots of ribbons in braids and jeweled nets and halo/tiara headdresses (like the dancers in the Mary books)
  - cloak/mantle/headscarf, all lengths
  - over robe, all lengths
  - chemise, all lengths
  - hose for those with shorter chemises
  - optional belts
  
  
• hd nobles (both genders)
  - fabric: brocade, more sedate colors (red, black, white, navy, green, etc)
  - trim: satin cord as piping and knotwork; contrast fabric borders
  - jewelry: jade and pearls
  - hair: elaborate braids, sparing use of decorated hair sticks
  - cloak/mantle/headscarf, all lengths
  - over robe, all lengths
  - chemise, all lengths
  - hose for those with shorter chemises
  - optional belts
  
  
• hd hunters (both genders)
  - fabric: plain heavy neutral
  - trim: brocade fabric borders
  - jewelry: none - hunting gear instead
  - hair: functional: pulled back, often with a warm hat
  - fur lined cloak
  - tunics, knee length, elbow length sleeves
  - long sleeve tight undershirt
  - hose
  - boots
  - belt
  - daggers
  - bow/quivers/arrows
  - swords and scabbards for wearing swords on the back (crosswise, with a sash/sling thing)
  - horns
  - assorted canteens, sun hats, other gear
  
  
• camelot servants
  - elaborate and varied fetish costumes, pretty skimpy, collars, harnesses, high heels, boots
  
  
• hd servants
  - more reserved fetish costumes, showing a little less skin but still tight and revealing
  
  
• camelot priest & clerics
  - black cassock with white collar
  - some with belt and stole
  - bishop in white cassock with poncho (chasuble really, with that y-shaped trim on top)
  
  
• hd priest
  - toga overrobe
  
  
• monsters (body paint/costumes): dragons/serpants, wolves, wodwos/yetis, bulls, bears, boars, etayne3/ninjas
  
  
• fantastical bird-women singing in the trees as Gawain rides by in 2-11
  
  
• modern refugees: random modern clothes; perhaps military-ish
  
  
• line of kings
  - immediate post apocalypse: military dress uniform
  +200 hodgepodge salvage pants, vest, coat
  +400 homespun pantaloons, wrapped cloth knee shoes, salvage decorated collar and cuffs
  +600 big robe in plain cloth, knee length and poofy sleeves
  +800 longer robe in nicer cloth, patterned chasuble over
  +1000 nicest cloth, under robe and mantle

Comments

[amoken.livejournal.com]

Don't worry; rats would totally survive the apocalypse. And maybe they mutate/evolve into bigger fuzzier critters more suitable for stripping hides and fur.

[nakedbee.livejournal.com]

I like the way you think! That totally makes sense. Oooh, and maybe I can justify using that cool aquamarine bubble fun-fur I always eye at the fabric store ... mutations can explain so much!

[browascension.livejournal.com]

I'm looking forward to watching this project evolve. Hit me up if you want me to help with the location scouting.

[nakedbee.livejournal.com]

Cool! Help would probably be good. I'll let you know more specifics as I figure things out. :)