Today I had to get in touch with the designer we’re working with in Toronto; Craig Allen of The Richmond Studio. His work is sharp and elegant and we’re lucky to have him. He’s designed all of the logos and artwork for Ardent and for our Cygnet Theatre Company.
We need a few — 3 sounds good — pieces to be fictitious tacky posters or mock-ups of posters. These are meant to be of cheap, knocked-off, exploit ‘reality’ movies of the GIRLS GONE WILD variety.
I found some reference material I thought might be good that I emailed to him.
It’s amazing what’s yielded by going to a stock material website like Stock Exchange for example and doing a search on the word “bikini”.
In terms of size, I can’t imagine printing them out any smaller than 8.5×14 paper in order to read as ‘posters’ or ‘mock-ups’ in the scene set in our tacky producer’s office. Our fake titles are things like: Spring Break Madness followed by, II, III and IV: Cancun Nights.
Also, I need to ask Craig if we should we have a photoshop file of the fake pulp book jacket as a prop for one of our cocina scenes between the Pete and Cross characters, or should we just print the pdf? Hmm…
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Postscript: Special treat: there was a line of paperbacks published by a company called Signet. Ours is published by Cygnet… the name of our old theatre company. And our phony book cover looked even better once wrapped around a book, had a drink spilled on it and dried a bit bit bleached and dog-eared. Kicking the crap out of props? Can do!
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