Coal - The Mariner's Children

"A few weeks after the Platt Hall visit, where I got my first chance to witness some of Mary Greg's collection, I was helping my Nana sort out a spare bedroom where lots of her old things had be stored, sort of like her own personal Mary Greg like collection. In her collection I found her old wedding dress and I knew that I wanted to use it as a costume as well as the basis of a narrative plot in a short film.
My plan was to make the film include different ideas behind the Mary Greg Collection, such as: Letter writing, collection, interaction between different generations, Then and Now. Etc.
As Mary's collection is filled with lots of little things, I wanted to use Doll's house furniture in shots but never revealing it is dolls house furniture. My plan was to start my own collection of doll's house furniture but it was quickly suggested that I use Mary's own collection. I think this will be good in bringing my project back to Mary and will be a good way of showing off one small part of her collection.
Here is a quick storyboard edit of the film, for the final film I will reshoot all of the footage to a higher quality and use the doll's house furniture for the shots where I have used my drawings."

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• mary greg
• platt hall
• manchester art gallery
• doll's house
• coal
• the mariner's children
• folk
• wedding dress
• 1950's/