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Hi everyone, as you probably already know in these difficult times I have been trying to bring a new revenue stream into our Rough Magic Theatre pot by monetising my blog. I created certain content that was subscriber only and which could be viewed by people willing to contribute a regular monthly amount.

I have been finding that it is an awful lot of extra work creating 2 separate lots of content so this is taking away precious time from actually being able to get on with our latest project “The Secret Keeper”. In addition to this I am going to fess up now that I have not had a single subscriber so far.

So as the subscription system doesn’t seem to be working, I am going to try offering all of the content to everyone for free but include a donations button so that anyone who would like to contribute towards the making of the show can do so. I am leaving all payment options open so people can choose a suggested one off payment amount or put in an amount of their choosing. People can also choose to contribute regularly if they wish with a monthly or annual payment.

If you go back through the posts for “The Secret Keeper” that I already created you should now be able to access all of the previously “subscriber only” content for free. See the list below to click through and see the content you have missed:

Behind the Scenes with the Secret Keeper

More Behind the Scenes with the Secret Keeper

More Explosions

Experiments in the Puppet Closet

Writing “The Secret Keeper” – Part 2

Making the Prime Minister

Creating the “Face-On” Prime Minister Puppet

If you enjoy it, I would appreciate a donation of whatever you feel you can afford. If you can’t afford anything, that’s fine but if you can,…

Many thanks everybody and please share this post with your friends.

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Behind the Scenes with “The Secret Keeper”!

Posted on by Collette Knowles
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Who are these peculiar people in their fetching Steampunk/Cyberpunk coats? It is Collette Knowles and Tim Austin of Rough Magic Theatre on a family outing to the YSP (Yorkshire Sculpture Park) in the torrential rain! The Sculpture Park is on the site of the former Arts University (Bretton Hall) where they met for the first time 19 years ago!

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  • Working on a bomber style jacket for the King of Junk Town’s Party Clothes
  • Finished Look with crown over the top of the Bowler Hat
  • Front facing view

Here is some of the work on the character of the King of “Junk Town”. In the first episode he is attending a party so the first look I needed to create for him was not his normal wear but his party clothes (what he would wear to show off his wealth and importance to the City Folk).

I have been watching a lot of videos on YouTube showing people how to make their own top hats out of foam to look like they are made out of riveted metal so we fancied the idea of a metal top hat. This turned into a crown with bits of iron railings bolted onto it.

We also figured it would be cold in Junk Town so his clothing would feature lots of fur perhaps so for a party look we settled on the idea of a sheepskin bomber jacket.

He also has a pair of delicate sunglasses which would be very valuable at this time and a status symbol because there would be so few undamaged pairs of glasses left.

If you too would like to get into a steampunk mood while reading this marvellous blog why not check out this video on how to make a steampunk top hat out of foam from “Lost Wax”: