A VERY BRITISH SCANDAL

2021, BBC/Blueprint Pictures

GRAPHICS ASSISTANT

Production Designer: Christina Moore

Set Decorator: Philippa Hart

Graphic Designer: Paula Jones

The story of events surrounding the notorious divorce of the Duke and Duchess of Argyll during the 1960s.

The story takes place mostly in the 1960s but also covers periods between the 40s - 60s. I assisted in creating a range of props and dressing including editing photographs and creating adverts for magazines and newspapers. I also worked on some key props such as editing the infamous polaroid that set off the divorce case and remains to this day a mystery - who is the headless man?

ADVERTS FOR PAPERS AND MAGAZINES

Illustrations by Brice Reigner

PROPS

IAN’S BOOK

Ian (Paul Bettany) reads a book in bed, he then throws it playfully at Margaret

For this scene I created a book cover for ‘Kidnapped’ by Robert Louis Stevenson. As he is obsessed with raising a shipwreck from his lake, I thought a sea based adventure might be relevant for his character. The insides are actually Ibsen books from my own bookshelf!

MARGARET’S POLAROIDS

A picture’s worth a thousand words, and sadly Margaret’s private photographs were forced to speak for her.

MARGARET’S SCRAPBOOK

Margaret was a keen scrapbooker, archiving her presence in High Society through magazines and papers. Here we see Margaret scrapbooking as she learns of Ian’s Dukedom and decides to call him up. I worked on the layout of the scrapbook and created a glue label coverup.

Glue label options dependent on chosen propped bottle.
Final label:

Dressing

Niall's Office - historical papers for dressing