Making a Masterpiece - Mise en Scene and Costs

Any extra utensils out of the school's provision, us as a group, would need to provide. Therefore as a group we have decided to spend a maximum of £15 each towards the costs. Making the total cost that we are willing to spend be £45 for the following articles of Mise en Scene:

The Nurse:

• Nurse's Tunic - I was able to find several websites that have them. Our planning was to find the addresses of the buildings where the tunics were, and then purchase them. One website and then abandoned warehouse was Oxypas. Another website was Scrubs Uk, we/ I was going to go to the location, but instead we differed from that option as Romina was able to find a smart white blouse at The British Heart Foundation as a replace. Luckily it was only £6.25 where we was going to spend a maximum of £29.90 on a tunic. As of this, the top costume has to change, the change being that she will now wear a blouse with hopefully a blue, if not white, vest underneath, because it is too time consuming to find and retrieve a nurse's blouse at this point in time.
• Do not become mistaken in thinking that they were the only methods we tried in getting the Nurse's uniform/tunic. We seeked after hospitals (which uniforms are limited as they are issued to the staff), fancy dress/party shops (where the clothing was too provocative for my liking) and other medical places (when they were unable to help, they provided us with email addresses, where they didn't reply, and street addresses, which didn't have the uniform).
• Black Trousers - We would have brought smart black trousers for the nurse, however the character that is playing her already has some. Therefore no cost shall be spend.
• Shoes - Similarly, comfortable canvas shoes such as plimsolls and espadrilles in either black or white. I was able to find some in Shoe Zone for the price of £4.99. Fortunately, yet again, the opportunity was drawn at a hit as the need to purchase new shoes wasn't required.
• ID Card - This was when my skills recruited from GSCE ICT (which wasn't much) was essential. I was able to forge a fake Medical ID placing a chip, logo, photo and barcode. All of which I seeked out by viewing other ID Cards. Both the Nurse's and Doctor's ID Cards are the same, as in set up. Yet there are minor alterations, the barcode for example. It is a picture, but the end number of the barcode I was able to change from a '6' to a '7'. Furthermore, Natalia had brought photo-paper for the photos that are to be cast upon the wall, and we decided that we could also use this for the ID as it would replicate my student ID Card. I think that Natalia is going to take the full cost for the photo-paper, however she did say that the cost for the photo-paper is £2.99. Which would be taken out of the total cost if she goes against it.

The Doctor:

• Laboratory Coat - This was free of charge as we were able to retrieve this from the school's science tech room. I informed them that we would borrow the item until early-mid December. I have to say that this was one of the easiest things to obtain.
• ID Card - The same as the Nurse's without the need to change the barcode. 
• Smart Black Trousers, Blue Shirt and Shoes - Our teacher (Mr Munn) who is to be playing the doctor has the appropriate clothing already to provide this in his own discretion. He is a teacher after all.
• The Ring - Natalia was able to buy the ring from Top Man which amounted to £7.50. The ring in itself was a mission to buy as well. I would think that the reason for this is because men's jewellery is a rarity, yet our ring required having a ruby in it and being gold, made the mission become a quest.
• Pens and Clipboard - The pen that would rest in the laboratory coat's pocket would need to be smart looking, therefore ideally metallic. Which would only be obtained through purchase, Natalia offered to buy the pen(s) from her own pocket - that I am in favour of. So no extra money would be spent. The clipboard we got from Geography at school, where the cost of it is also free. Also known as no money spent.

Ralivia:

• The Patient's Gown and Socks - After searching around a few places of medical care (such as Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and World's End Medical Centre), first of all for a tunic for the Nurse, and then Ralivia's gown, we were successful at getting this at The Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospital, with an extra treat of patient socks as well. Once again we just asked them whether we could borrow it, to which they said "yes" on the condition that we give it back early-mid December as promised. My guess is that it was harder to obtain the Nurse's tunic/uniform as it is issued to them personally. Whereas the patient's gown and socks are issued to everyone therefore there is many in stock and one-size fits all.

Others:

• Table Cloth - There is the option of using the Monster's Inc. table cloth that I already have or buying a new one - spending a maximum of £2 on it from somewhere like Poundland. On the contrary, if we were to use the Monster's Inc. cloth it could show the contrast of what childhood she could have had and should have had, instead of the unfortunate situation of what happened.
• Tray, Cups and Pills - Like much of the Mise en Scene, all of the following would be provided by the team itself. That way it is free. For example, I would provide a rounded blue tray, and brown pills. They're iron pills which shouldn't have a bad effect over Romina. Natalia would also cater pills (Paracetamol and vitamin tablets I think) along with the small plastic cups. A better choice to the paper McDonald's cups that I once observed.
• Blood - Before we were eventually able to find the location of the blood, it was practically a task that seemed impossible, even though Halloween was not long ago. When we were able to find the tube of blood at a costume shop during school the cost of this was £1.99 for something that was 50oz. Fortunately now we know where we would be able to find more blood.
• Pink Lemonade Lucozade - Romina was able to find the lucozade in Tesco which would be our "tinted pink water". However the cost of which was not noted, so this information is still to be announced. 

There seems to be a lot of blue displayed within the opening. I feel as though this would be able to set an element of calmness and stillness - after all, blue is seem in that way with water. It is something that is a natural substance, it's pure and true.