The Firefly and Serenity props are starting to grow on me. Love what you've done. Great stuff!
Thanks for the positive comments, all.
I put the pics up at 2:30 AM and was so tired I could hardly type.
The money is of my own design done in primitive old Microsoft Paint.
I used elements already out there; from the Firefly series, the Serenity BDM and from pics of real money.
The Ariel bills are even serial numbered.
I then carried it in my pocket with a bunch of real bills to make it look real.
The Inara papers are a work in progress.
The main folded sheet is a contract summation that the Companion and customer would sign to consumate the deal.
I created a "Contracting Parties Duties And Obligations" section,
some of it meant to sound realistic, some rather tongue-in-cheek and some an outright poke at the humor of the show.
For example, "All ceremonies to guild spec" and "All insight offered without claim upon any personal or material gain" are meant to feel real.
I used "Emotional and marital entanglements unraveled at client expense"
to make fun of a real element of engaging a gorgeous Companion for sex.
(This was alluded to in the original "Trash" script as seen in the Official Companion Vol.II.)
And of course, "Use of
whore is ill-advised" is a straight up poke at Mal constantly using it with Inara!
The purple and green Waiver of Reproductive Rights sheet is based on someone's RPG nudist certificate.
The Certificate of Examination is based on the episode "Ariel" and certifies that Inara has been examined by a team of doctors at St. Lucy's and found fit to serve as Companion another year.
Finally, the box is an updated version of the (suicide/rape bomb/eternal youth serum)syringe box seen in the true TV pilot.
Its a copy of one sold by The Propstore as set dressing from "Serenity".
The two trays "nest" in the box, with the money tray on top of the syringe, vial and whatever the cool-looking-other-gizmo-is tray.
(I haven't made the vial, yet.)
For such a short run series, Firefly offered so much texture!
It is so much fun to make props that logically build on what was shown or implied, and I think is part of what makes the show interesting beyond the brief amount of screen time actually presented.
Mike