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So, obviously in the 2000s, technology wasn't as well developed as it is now, so physical college acceptance letters were sent through mail rather than email and website inboxes. Since our main prop in this opening is the acceptance letter, I thought I might as well research about it to ensure that it is done right and accurate to the time period.
The late 2000s is when colleges began to shift from physical acceptance letters to online ones. What I've seen the most throughout this research, though, is the thick and thin envelopes serving as a way for students to know whether they got into the college or not. Typically the acceptance letters came in a white paper size envelope with the the school logo, stamps, and address information. If accepted, the letters were usually as thick as a magazine because it included various forms regarding financial aid, housing, contact information, and more. Inside, they also put flyers and brochures promoting statistics of the school and future events that could help convince students to actually attend the university. But if a student received a thin letter that feels like it only contains one paper, it was very likely that they were rejected from the college. All schools are different, though, some using fancy seals and others only using thin letters.
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Arantza and I plan to make these letters ourselves though, using the thick and thin envelopes to make this opening more time accurate. We plan on using a big paper envelope and either printing or simply drawing the information on its exterior. For the inside, we will very likely just stick in random papers and add an acceptance letter we wrote based off of Arantza's college acceptance letters. That letter will be taken out of the envelope by Lily's actress and is what she begins to read out loud at the beginning of our opening, right after our title sequence.
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+ Meds
This is a very simple prop, but since one of our main characters, Lily, is... well she's dying... she needs to be taking pills to at least attempt to get better. Her swallowing some pills is also a scene in our opening, so for this, we chose to use an empty pill container and print out some writing that we can stick on it so it actually looks prescribed to Lily. Inside, we plan on putting Altoids mints so that the actress playing Lily doesn't have to actually swallow a random placebo pill or crumbled piece of paper, and can just take a mint. And to make it more realistic, I have many pill bottles that we can add to the background to make it look like there is a lot of medicine Lily must take.
Sources:
Thick College Envelopes: A Thing of the Past | Ivy Coach. (2024, October 31). Ivy Coach; Ivy Coach®, Inc. https://www.ivycoach.com/the-ivy-coach-blog/college-decisions/thick-college-envelopes/
Communications, D. J. (1997, December 12). Size Doesn’t Matter When It Comes to a Notice of Admission | Newswise. Newswise.com; Newswise. https://www.newswise.com/articles/size-doesnt-matter-when-it-comes-to-a-notice-of-admission
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