Location:
This shoot is designed to be shot on location at the Boathouse at Rockett's Landing in Richmond, VA. It is an incredibly beautiful restaurant located on the James River, overlooking RVA. Because this location is a functioning restaurant, there is very little that I need to do to dress the set. I will be providing the food props on the tables... (Which I will go into more detail in another blog entry)
here is a link to the location:
http://www.boathouserichmond.com/rocketts_landing/boathouse_restaurant.php?dsp=restaurant
Costume
The Patrons:
In general I have asked the extras to dress in business casual and in solid colors. There are a few people I asked to dress up a little bit and to play wealthy people.
Waitron: Black pants/shoes and white button up shirt with a bistro apron. Bistro aprons can be found on restaurant supply website. (I own about 12 from a previous shoot) most of the cast already has or is borrowing their pants/shirts... I am taking the ones who do not shopping at a local thrift store.
I want the women who have been cast as the waitron to have braided hair, vaguely reminiscent of soviet worker women... I am bringing in some hair stylists to do this on the morning of the shoot. I google searched images of braided hairstyles until I found a few I wanted to show the stylists... I went by a beauty supply store with one of the stylists and bought hair weave, in a few general colors, in order to generally match the actors cast in these rolls-- in order to allow for larger, thicker braids on them. I spent about $45 in the beauty supply store, as I also bought some fake lashes and adhesive for them. Below are a few images of braids I collected: (If I was creating the set for this project, I would probably have opted for something more in the style of the last image)
