Pre-Production: Making The Props

Props

Jewels/Eggs

To make the jewels, I have used the plastic egg out of a Kinder surprise egg and covered it in paper mache.

Then painting the eggs in bright colours to make them look like jewels.

Captain's Quarters Furnature

Using the left over wood from making the walls of my set, I needed to make a table, bookcase and a shelf.

Bookcase

My Dad helping with the wood cutting.

All the pieces stuck together. some weight needs to be added to the one side so that it levels out.

Painted

To make the books for inside of the bookcase I am going to cut a rectangle of polystyrene and shape the side facing out to look like book covers and then paint it. This will save time from making individual books.

Shelf

To make sure that the shelf stays in place, I have added small brackets to be glued to the wall.

Painted

Table

In this scene the characters are stood around a map on a table.

I was originally going to have a four legged table, but decided that a big chest that they have used as a table would be more sturdy and will hide any tie-downs or rigs from the characters.

I have used this image as a reference for the size and colour of the paintwork.

Painted

Ship's Wheel

Using Sculpey I moulded the shape of the wheel and the cooked it in the oven to make it go hard, once it's cooled I can carve into it and the paint it.

With the hole in the middle this can then be attached to a box that I am going to make. I was thinking of trying a split pin so that the wheel can still turn, if this doesn't work I will loosely put in a screw.

Swords and Daggers

These are to used as accessories for the pirates to carry.

Saucepan

Mop and Bucket

To be placed in the background of the top deck scene.

Paper Weights

These will be made from small balls of baked Sculpey and then they will be painted.

Candle Stick

For the scene when the pirates are around the table, I wanted there to be some light shining up to their faces, so I thought putting a candle on the table and then lighting my scene slightly from below would work well for this.

Pint Glasses/Tankard

Barrel

In the scene with the ship's cook, He is hiding within a barrel when the monster slithers around him.

For this I made the barrel out of Sculpey so that I could push the bottom of the armature into it before baking. This will then help securing the armature to the barrel later on.