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Lights

2024-10-31 06:04:42 UTC

Have different lights for different scenes

-Adalynn

Soylent Green character backstory

2024-10-31 07:13:15 UTC

Soylent or Sara Green is 16 grew up with a divorced mom and a corrupted older sister.She hates talking to people loves being alone and likes to walk. She hates everybody in the play and does not know what to think of Lady Indigo and Mr.Burgundy. Before the scene begins she was walking and listening to music. When the scene ends she will go to sleep. She grew up alone with not much people to help her threw the hard times she faced.

Lights

2024-10-31 07:14:13 UTC

When doing the lights we should make the color of the lights the color of the murder for each scene.

Stage concept

2024-10-31 07:18:53 UTC

This may or may not be how the stage will look before we start!(Hence, the closed curtains)

-Evie Slayton-Davis

(And yes- I drew that on canvas.. somehow)

Butler

fhw_chiang — 2024-10-31 07:19:21 UTC

The Butler is 20 years old and this is her first job. His family is really poor that's why she got this job. Her mom is a teacher and her dad is a janitor at the school her mom teaches at. She is an only child. She likes to help people and hates too see people be mean to one another.

-Jaichelle Nairn

Music(pre-show)

2024-10-31 07:21:53 UTC

Song for pre-show

agent orange backstory/ senators offfice

2024-10-31 07:22:52 UTC

Agent Orange is 35 years old, and his mom Is named Barbra, and his dad is named Scott, an only child. All his childhood, he was bullied, because he was a nerd and had good grades, he skipped 4th grade. he likes working and classical music. he dislikes people finding out he had taken illegal campaign contributions from a series of foreign dignitaries and are blackmailing him. he also dislikes scary old people. before this scene, he was coming up with cover stories, and looking for his inhaler. after the scene, the old woman takes him to jail and he rots.

Song for Ending and start suggestion

2024-10-31 07:24:15 UTC

Ending song suggestion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkcnW1ZzHJI

Starting song suggestion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khKdXTmbhDw

2024-10-31 07:25:13 UTC

The back ground of the character would stay dark as the spoke until the first narrator would walk out, the lights would point at the side narrator one would walk out of as she talks, then narrator two would talk and the light would point on her as she walks out onto the stage just like the narrator one. As the lights would light up on the actors. With "fake" couches on the side and a circular carpet in the middle with the body in the center of the carpet.

-Cataleya White-

Lady Indigo's back round story

2024-10-31 07:25:59 UTC

Lady Indigo's real name is Ana Indigo. She was born into a rich family in England. Her dad is a billionaire, and he owns a lot of illegal companies. He was always abusive to her. She is thirty-three years old. In one part of the play, Lady Indigo accuses Soylent Green of murdering Vick Tim when it was really her. The reason she did this was because she had dated Soylent's older brother, Seymour Green, as a teenager. They dated for three years. They had a fight, and now Lady Indigo hates their family. When she was fifteen, Ana ran away from home and was homeless for five years. She couldn't stand her father's abuse anymore.

Elderly Woman

2024-10-31 07:26:39 UTC

Elderly Woman is 76 years old. After her husband passed away, she changed to become very stubborn, and decided to become a detective, helping and working with the police. Back in her day, she was the happiest child in the world. She was successful in school, and studied a lot. She was a bright and confident child, with average parents. Elderly Woman likes watching crime documentaries, and solving mysteries smoothly. She dislikes the color orange, and things that are slow. She is mostly kind, unless someone gets on her bad side. She talks back, savagely, to other characters in the scene, and sometimes even mocks. Before the scene, she watches a crime documentary on her TV, and after, she rides with police to find any unusual things happening.

Scene one - Isabella Middleton

2024-10-31 07:26:47 UTC

After the introduction, the lights would go out and everybody would get in place. the lights would turn on ( or flicker on if we have that available) And then The lights would focus in on Vick Tim. The drawing room Would have a table in the middle with a couple of chairs ( Maybe some 2D lounge chairs on the side that look like they are real) A scene in the background with a Painting with ocean scenery or something of a calming dark blue or a forest)

Mr.burgandy

2024-10-31 07:27:26 UTC

Age: 24

family: dead

Childhood : neglected

Likes: off white, red, his mustache, gum, and Legos

dislikes: anyone touching his authentic recreation dagger

Relationship with other characters: Stranger besides off white

activity before scene starts: making a song script

activity after scene ends: finish song script

He was neglected by his parents and his brother cared for him but all of his family died in a plane crash when they left his for Paris. he became a rock star and lost all of his sanity from not having anybody to be close with so he developed a crush on off white because she's the closest person to him.

-Julian Yap/ Ian Berrios.

Mic concept

2024-10-31 07:27:26 UTC

Maybe what the mics could be!

Chrome canvas.. again.

-Evie Slayton-Davis

(Shading will be added later.)

Vic Tim By Jackson

2024-10-31 07:27:28 UTC

Age 19

Family I have 2 brothers a mom a dad grandma and a grandpa

childhood Vic Tim had a normal childhood with a well-off family 2 brothers he hated but learned to love and he was loved very much

likes/dislikes Vic Tim likes sweets, being by himself, and he likes twilight. he dislikes being pulled around, spicy food, and orange.

Relationship with other characters he dislikes them all

activity before scene dyeing

activity after scene killing

Narrator 1 backstory

2024-10-31 07:27:38 UTC

Narrator 1 in the play is probably in their late 20's or early 30's. Narrator 1 has been in many murder investigation in her time and in all of those she was the murder. Narrator 2 has been her close friend since childhood, since they're friends Narrator 2 hasn't told authority. Narrator 1 has always had thing of violence seen when she was young leading to multiple 'accidents'.

Off-White

2024-10-31 07:27:39 UTC

Madame Off-White is in her mid-20s and grew up in a strict family. She used to be a very cheerful and energetic child. She didn't have much manners and her grades were not the highest. Her parents hated this and beat her as a child. After a while, they sent her to a strict boarding school that had very brutal punishments for those who did not behave accordingly. She then became a very proper person, always getting good grades and everyone expected a lot from her. Deep down, she's tired of being the perfect person that everyone wants her to be. She has never experienced anyone loving her ever.

Off-White Backstory

2024-10-31 08:48:42 UTC

Madam Off-White was a rebellious child from an early age.But she had really strict parents like her dad was a above average level student, but her mom was a sports star who is also above average so they wanted off-white to be perfect. But Off-white was a C average student which was surprising coming from her family.She was a little too rebellious sometimes because it was week 2 of 7th grade and she had 8 detentions and 4 suspension. Her parents were fed up and they decide to send her off to boarding school they MADE you proper. She was brutally punished and MADE proper no one ever knew why she suddenly turned proper the had assumed that she a just clicked. But no she is tired of being prim and perfect. This is the last stand of her being proper after the end of scene she sues the boarding school she went to all those years ago....

-Adalynn Ty

Continuation of Off-White

2024-10-31 09:50:07 UTC

She had never experienced anyone loving her until she met Mr. Burgundy. After she gets with Mr. Burgundy, she gains more positivity and confidence and decided to sue the boarding school she went to (I forgot to mention that she had an older sister who her parents loved more than her and who was supposedly better than her at everything). Madame Off-White likes Mr. Burgundy, being by herself, reading, modern things (clothes, houses, etc.), and sweets. She dislikes bad smells, things being unorganized, and people doing things better than her (mainly because of trauma). Madame Off-White's relationship with Lady Indigo is unknown, but they may be strangers, Mr. Burgundy is a love interest/lover, Agent Orange is a stranger, and Soylent Green (or Sara Green) is also a stranger. Before the scene begins, you can see her with Mr. Burgundy and reading a book. After the scene ends, you'll see her still with Mr. Burgundy, but eating a cookie this time.

2024-11-01 04:09:12 UTC

This is for scene one - isabella middleton

Also mic.

2024-11-01 04:59:08 UTC

I know I'm not on set design but...

I think instead of hand held mics maybe we should get mics that clip behind you ear...

Prop

2024-11-02 09:19:42 UTC

prop

Narrator 1 backstory- Part 2

2024-11-03 06:04:26 UTC

These 'accidents' at school or at an event whenever she was upset or annoyed caused her parents to stop taking her out to events or even to public areas as much. Then even start homeschooling her. This causes Narrator 1 to be out of touch for the outside world, making it harder for her to make friends or get along with people on general Narrator 2 was the only friend she had. As the year when one Narrator 1 mental health got worse to the points she started reading books and watching videos on how to make friends & be likable. In all, there was one thing that she got for all her research... How to manipulate people and their feelings. She started to try out this 'tactic' on people and it worked, she was more pleasant to be around more agreeable and funny. Yet, she still had a short temper, this led to her killing multiple people of age, gender, and race. Ever murder that she did she would keep a photo of them and the weapon she killed them with and put it in a box under her bed. One cold chilly night her mom was helping clean her room because she was moving out for college, her mom checked under her bed for anything and found the box. She opened it and her eyes widened in horror but, before she could turn around there was a knife straight in her back. Narrator 1 put the body in the living room, finishing cleaning out her room. Once She was done she waited in the living room with her now dead mother for her dad to get home. About an hour later her dad walked through the door, calling for his wife, no answer... So start looking around the house, his eyes widened once he saw his now dead wife on the living room floor, but before he could even grieve for the loss of his wife.. There was a knife straight in his heart... After both of her parents were killed she buried the bodies in the backyard, and put a photo of them and the knife she killed within the box. That same cold night she ran from her home moving across states to go back to a normal life and ended up starting a successful business. No one knows who killed all those people including her parents to this day... well one person knows Narrator 2 her BFF and famous detective knows about the most unsolvable murder in the world... But they're still Besties for life!! :)

-Avery Gatlin

mics

2024-11-03 09:44:56 UTC

I keep seeing people talking about mics, but are we even getting mics?

2024-11-04 01:18:45 UTC

We should try to have it so the lights would dim and brighten up if needed and could change colors as they brighten up the stage for certain scenes. If possible we could even control the lights so they could follow the characters.

Old Lady

2024-11-04 01:53:12 UTC

I think the wig for old woman should be like a gray perm with lots of curls. Maybe a pink/colorful dress with a jacket. Then a cane and glasses for accessories. Thoughts or ideas?

2024-11-04 01:57:44 UTC

If we change the butler to a boy then use this for his character design. :)

Mr. burgundy

2024-11-04 05:14:34 UTC

I'm not in costume design but I'm really good at character design, I'm working on some, here is Mr. Burgandy

2024-11-04 05:26:01 UTC

Something like this for Old Woman???

should oranges suit be like this?

2024-11-04 09:43:57 UTC

this guys suit I sick!

2024-11-04 09:46:19 UTC

Uh I couldn't edit it but this is the mic concept but actually finished

2024-11-05 04:20:52 UTC

Mic concept #2

2024-11-05 04:26:45 UTC

Caroline put this idea in my head and I couldn't resist so I made it..

I JUST HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO DRAW EARSSSSSSSS

-Evie Davis

(Also don't mind the really REALLY wonky shading)

Colored lights concept

2024-11-05 04:32:40 UTC

I know that I am not on tech but I wanted to just add quick lights to my stage concept because I say people talking about it and it sparked my intrest

-Evie Davis

(Curtains still there but it's fine)

I HAVE REQUEST FOR SET DESIGN CONCEPTS

2024-11-05 04:50:11 UTC

Water picture to make this alot more friendly that it might seem, but i'm NOT going to force you to do my request.

To make it a bit more realistic(and to not have odd things,

like eyes in random spots) Can we not use AI for this? I know it's not the esactly worst thing, but art wise it works by people giving it REAL artist's artworks, or: stealing the art and giving it to AI without permission. That's really all, but you don't have to follow this I am just heavily against AI art(especially because people can and WILL sell it and claim it as real art.)

and YES: AI art is OK TO DO, so long as you find a program that got the art to give to AI with PERMISSION. but Human art it a lot better than AI, IN MY OPINION> a lot of artists dislike it, and yes it's an easier option but other than the ones that are ALREADY up can we please not do it? You do NOT have to listen to my rant WHATSOEVER though, if you do not want to.

Evie Davis

(Also yes: This should go for props, costumes, wigs, and lights, too: but does NOT have to.)

note from Kit

2024-11-05 09:42:13 UTC

I know this may not be directly related to the play, but I've noticed a lot of AI-generated art being posted on this Padlet, particularly by one user. I just want to clarify that AI art often works by taking existing artwork created by humans and combining it in new ways without giving proper credit. Once again, I understand this isn’t about "How to Get Away With A Murder Mystery," but I felt it was important to share this information.portant to share this information.

2024-11-05 11:56:34 UTC

We should add an magnifiying glass as it will add more to the scenes as the characters trace the clues of the murder. Plus it looks better instead of the guy just wandering.

Fake, sharp, metal, pointy, material

2024-11-05 12:22:06 UTC

We should use a fake, sharp, metal, pointy, material to add to the fact that the victom is in a forever slumber. :)

Paintings

2024-11-06 03:07:06 UTC

I randomly thought it would be funny if Mr. Burgandy had a bunch of paintings of himself in his house (yes I got that idea from lockhart in harry potter)

we have a tech portion on this board?!?!?

2024-11-06 03:07:46 UTC

Off-white costume

2024-11-13 04:24:42 UTC

maybe something like this type your ideas below.

-Adalynn

Green's Backstory

2024-11-13 07:57:46 UTC

Sara Green grew up with divorced parents. She was about 12 when her parents divorced, leaving her with a dishonest, bad brother. She loves staying alone, antisocial, and loves to taunt sharks. She absolutely hates every single suspect (especially Lady Indigo, and sometimes Mr. Burgundy). Before the incident, she was on her bed reading a book before sleeping. Her brother (who is now in jail) was never exactly there for her when she needed him the most during dark, depressing times when remembering her parent's divorce.

Green's Costume Top

2024-11-13 08:07:11 UTC

Green Costume Bottom

2024-11-13 08:07:39 UTC

Set three. Rock star's house - Isabella middelton

2024-11-14 06:57:28 UTC

When stage curtains open up again there could be a set up. maybe we could borrow the base guitar from ms ford and set it up in the background. There could be a couch in the middle and a small table in front. and like it was listed there could be three portraits of the rock star around it

[SCRAPPED] Cuision concept

2024-11-14 07:11:33 UTC

Why a cushion..? Well; for the Vick Tim actor of course!

A Frazzled Lady

2024-11-14 07:15:13 UTC

Frazzled Lady is 31 years old. She has a knack for knowing when people lie. This sometimes causes her to offend the wrong crowd. She is running from a set of 'shadowy group of casino operatives' after exposing a scam that they were running. She can often be blunt, and often rude too. Both of her parents are still alive, she just doesn't talk to them in fear of endangering them. She is an only child. She often is alone, and distant from others, since she is constantly on the run. Before the scene starts she gets out of her car after driving for a while, after this scene she gets back in her car, only to realize she didn't get to use the bathroom. She doesn't have many possessions besides her car and small trinkets. She likes; her car, solving mysteries, and not being stuck in one place. She doesn't like; Casinos, the fact she can never rest or stop in one location for a long time, and over- friendly people.

-Audrey Engstrom

NOT ACTUALLY HOW IT WILL BE ON STAGE

2024-11-14 07:25:45 UTC

uh don't mind how odd the painting are, I can do a lot better if I really tried

2024-11-17 05:07:26 UTC

Maybe this for off-white??

Lady Indigo backstory

2024-12-21 07:55:21 UTC

Lady Indigo indeed lived in a wealthy family but had a very abusive father. Lady Indigo real name was Sara when she was a little girl. Her father was so abusive everyday of her childhood so she left home and ran far away on her 17th birthday. Since Sara left she lived in poverty and had to live as a criminal. When she was in her early 20's Sara suddenly met a guy in the streets of New York. Sara loved him so much and thought that she finally experienced real love but things turned out to not be what she expected. Sara boyfriend Seymour Green which is Soylent Green brother was dealing with a illegal business. Sara was always abused by Seymour ever since they dated for only a few months. Seymour was more harsh then Sara's father. He abused her severely. Every time Sara tried to get Seymour arrested his lawyer always made the court find him not guilty of his abuse. Sara couldn't stand it no longer so on one night she murdered Seymour for self-defense. Ever since she had to change her identity such as her name, look, and more. Sara changed her name to Lady Indigo and ran illegal business since it was the only way to live for her since she wasn't qualified for any high-positioned jobs in New York city. Lady Indigo always tried to cover up her murder of Soylent Green's brother and tried to destruct all the useful evidence that the police can use for court. Lady Indigo is considered a criminal but had reasons for this unfortunate happening.

Lady Indigo Back Story

2024-12-21 08:03:38 UTC

do ppl still use this board?

2025-01-21 00:26:06 UTC