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This type of styling is a big favourite of mine in film, tv, advertisment, theatre and alternative dress. Mixing classical silhouettes, props, locations and storylines with extreme, possibly punk inspired, make-up, colouring and attitude. Similar to with Illamasqua, this combination seems to create a different persona and even the movements of 'The Ugly Sisters' are unusual.

The colouring particularly changes the mise en scene and while the location and sihouettes tell us this is a period piece, the bright blue hair and other distinctively odd colourings tell us that this is a little twisted and leaves us not knowing what to expect.

This is very similar to what I would like to achieve with my design, taking the Tudor period and twisting it into something unexpected.

Court Interior #2 overlay

This image shows the previous design with the overlay down. The overlay explains where detail would be, idea’s I am thinking of and character’s movement.

Tudor Court Interior #2

This design came about as I tried to figure out a way to have the 'arriving at the great city' and the 'wedding' scene all on one set as the scenes are very short and there would be no time for major changes. I kept the elevated seating area with the panelled walls behind but added a tapestry (to indicate royalty and riches) and brought that whole scene up a level to allow room in between the stairs for a wedding scene. The wedding area has an elevated area again, stained glass windows and I cannot decide between having rows of pews or just leaving the area open for the 'wedding guests' to stand as the furniture may get in the actors way and make things more complicated when changing the sets.

Tudor Court Interior #1

I started out by planning very simple ‘court’ scenes, taking inspiration from ‘The Tudors’ television production by having an elevated platform with just the two thrones and a table.

I felt that it needed more layers, more differences in height so I went on to design the next image.