Propelling Production of Props

 See what I did there, the alliteration? I thought that was a pretty good title for this blog because the only thing I have left to do in pre-production is sort out my opening's props. In my first blog post this week, I started working on Iris's show flyer through Adobe Photoshop and it's time to reveal the final product! Without further ado, I present to you, Lakewood High's production of In The Heights:

I'm genuinely really happy with how it turned out and it looks like a high school-made show poster, or how I wanted it to look. I didn't want it to look overly professional to the point where it just looked like a broadway show, but also not too amature-ish with the graphic design. My plan for making the poster look even more realistic is to print it out with lamination. My local FedEx store offers cheap options for poster printing, so it turns out that using lamination for a small poster is still affordable: 

It's difficult to see because of the low resolution (thanks Google blogger), but it'll cost $3.11 which is a win for me! Next on the list is buying the anklet for Iris's costume design and I think one off Amazon could work as long as it's multi-colored and handmade. I found this particular anklet that caught my eye and would work perfectly for the symbolism I had in mind:

Throughout my opening, the goal was to convey the loyalty and emotional support Iris continuously seeks from her mother despite her not reciprocating the same desire. Since blue correlates with the emotion of loyalty, and the blue beads are the main color of the anklet, it could depict the intensity of her loyalty to her mother along with the small multi-colored beads foreshadowing her name's meaning. In total, I'll be spending $19.01 on props, which is a solid budget for me. I didn't want to waste a bunch of money on getting the things I wanted for my opening when I can just use resources I already have. Not that I wanted to waste money at all, but if I could make bracelets I would. Perhaps that's a hobby I should pick up down the road, but stay tuned for next week when production starts!