WORKSHOP SESSION 3

For my next workshop sessions, for my design for script module, my prop that I made was a 1968 bottle of chablis. To make this I asked Tim bailey how the best way to seal the top of my bottle with wax was and he came back and provided me with a small heated wax crucible that I could use to melt the wax. This was incredibly helpful and made things much easier for me to produce the type of wax needed.

To start with I melted down some candle wax originally I did think that this wax was entirely red but after I started cutting it up to meltdown it was not so I went and mixed in some dark red resin pigment dye so that I could change the colour of the wax to what would have more likely been on a bottle of that time period.

However, the crucible was not entirely deep enough for me to dunk the whole kneck of the bottle so I poured the wax from the crucible into a small plastic cup with a narrower kneck so that I could dunk my whole bottle in one layer and build up the layers quickly but I did have to work fast as the wax would cool down as the heat from the electric crucible was no longer on it so I was working under time constraints.

This project for Design for script was really good for me to practice making props from a script and having to learn to use new materials such as wax, resin dyes, cork to seal off the bottle before waxing. I'm really happy with how this went as it was a case of many attempts of trail and error to get to the final point.