PROP ISSUE (1) + HOW WE DEALT WITH IT

 PROP ISSUE (1) + HOW WE DEALT WITH IT.

Unfortunately, following my emails to the theatre and chemistry department, I received an email from Sophie letting us know that we would not be able to use the chemistry equipment due to anxieties about damage (the things we were requesting were expensive tools). 

Then, immediately I contacted Mike about this issue as I was actually in his lesson through Teams (Our school had been closed due to Storm Eunice and we were reduced to online learning):

Later on in the week, Mike did manage to get us permission for cheaper science equipment, which was very kind of him!

Following the initial email from Sophie, however, after the school day, I began to brainstorm extreme close up shot ideas that we could use rather than that of the distillation setup, trying to ensure that they all fit into one theme. Eventually, I came up with the idea that the man is a deranged artist who is fascinated with anatomy, and uses his victims for his artwork - he murders them in ways that are undetectable in autopsies. The woman is his sister, whom he has a poor relationship with, so he chooses her for one of his projects; he murders her with poisonous berries and ricin (similar to the original idea), and disposes her body off of a remote cliff.

Though this process took me a long time and was extremely gruelling, it was crucial that we had a backup before the end of the week.

From this, I derived a prop list (as I was in charge of props), and bought what I could on Amazon and listed the shops that I would need to go to the next day: