
June
2009 Tonner “On Film” Convention Competition Categories
Competition Chairperson:
Meg Hunt (meghunt@verizon.net); contact Meg for questions or
clarifications on the categories listed below.
Criteria for Judging:
Unless otherwise specified, judging will be based on originality,
creativity, use of fabrics and trim, and the quality of the workmanship.
Read carefully for choice of dolls and number that can be entered in each
numbered category.
Child and Teen Doll Categories:
# 1 – High School Musical:
Your favorite Tonner/Effanbee teenager or
pre-teen is about to star in a high school or junior high musical. Drawing
inspiration from film musicals or high school theater, costume two
of your favorite Tonner/Effanbee teenagers (Harry Potter or Hardy Boy
Series, the new Dorothy, etc) or pre-teens (Marley-sized) as characters in
your choice of a high school musical. Include a 3 x 5 card that identifies
the musical.
#2 - You Tube Star:
In the age of “You Tube” and Iphones, every
kid or teen is ready to star in their own You Tube video or to be the center
of a photograph emailed to friends and family – or to be posted on a
facebook page. It is the 21st century version of dress-up,
play-acting, fantasy, or simple communication. Using any Tonner/Effanbee
child or teenage doll (of any size), costume your doll (1 doll) for his OR
her You Tube video or “Annie Liebowitz” type photograph. Use your
imagination. Be funny; be dramatic, be contemporary, eclectic, or historic.
Props are permissible, but must not be so complicated or numerous as to slow
photography during registration.
Vignette: Combination
Child, Teen and Adult Fashion Doll Category:
#3 – Families Are Like Fudge – Mostly
Sweet With a Few Nuts (author unknown):
Or, if the family were a fruit, it
would be an orange: circular separable segments held together. Or, “if you
cannot get rid of the family skeleton,” as George Bernard Shaw said, “make
it dance.” Or, “Other things may change us, but we start and end with the
family.” (Anthony Brandt) Without contestation, the most enduring theme in
movie and television history is family. Every facet of family life – good,
bad, and indifferent – has been celebrated, dissected, and laughed or cried
over. Even when not the principle theme, family relationships often animate
the story. I Love Lucy, Lost in Space, the Adams Family, Whatever Happened
to Baby Jane?, Father of the Bride, Parenthood, Mildred Pierce, the
Flintstones, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Desperate Housewives, American
Beauty, The Ghost Whisperer. . you get the picture. Pick a TV or movie
family that inspires you, terrifies you, makes you laugh, or something
else. Costume your dolls to illustrate your choice, or use your imagination
for a new plot line (sequel) inspired by your choice. Display should
include a 3 x 5 card identifying your source inspiration.
Choice of Dolls:
Costume up to two (2) of your favorite Tonner (Tyler scale) child or teen
dolls – and/or up to two (2) of your favorite Tyler-scale
Tonner/Effanbee male or female fashion dolls, including the superhero male
dolls may be contemporary or
appropriately period. Special Judging Note:
These entries will be displayed together as vignettes for a special award.
Then child/teen dolls will be judged individually against other teen dolls
and the adult fashion dolls individually against the other adult fashion
dolls.
Fashion Doll Categories:
#4 – Gotta Dance:
From
the early Broadway Melodies to Rent, and from Busby Berkeley to Bob Fosse,
dance has been celebrated in the great musicals of Hollywood. Drawing
inspiration from your favorite musical, costume your favorite pair (2) of
Tonner/Effanbee fashion dolls (male/female,
female/female, or male/male) for a dance from the musical. You may recreate
the original costumes from the movie or you may use the film as inspiration
to create your own designs so long as it is in character for the film and
the dance number chosen. Please identify the musical, the dance number, and
the dancers that were your inspiration on a 3 x 5 index card. (The gender
of your dolls does not have to mirror the gender paired in the movie).
#5 – Homage to Film Noir:
Gritty realism and skillful use of lighting
to exploit the limits of black and white cinematography emerged in the
1940’s as an alternative to the escapist film fair that nourished America
during the Great Depression. Occasionally contemporary films (Dead Men
Don’t Wear Plaid, Dead Again) have paid homage to the genre. Whether you
use contemporary couture or a 1940’s look, pay your own homage by costuming
one (1) of your favorite Tonner/Effanbee female fashion dolls using a
combination of only black and white fabric for a daywear ensemble.
#6 – Ellowyne Wilde in
Sepia: What black and white cinematography is to movies,
sepia-toned photographs are to pictures. The process of replacing metallic
silver with a silver compound allowed a print photograph to last longer and
could increase the range of visible shades in the print without reducing
contrast. Named for an artist’s pigments, variation in the chemical compound
can produce a sepia tone that is a red-brown tone, a purple-brown tone, or a
gold tone. Ellowyne loves the nostalgic beauty of sepia toned photographs
and uses it to inspire a costume – as to mood and color. Costume your
favorite Ellowyne or Prudence in sepia.
#7 – A Lady Loves:
In “I Love Melvin,” Debbie Reynolds plays an
aspiring actress and cover girl wanna be, with Donald O’Connor as a young
man who inflates his job at a magazine to get her attention with promises of
a “cover.” In the production number, “A Lady Loves,” Debbie fantasizes her
response to inquiries from the “gentlemen of the press” about a lady’s most
feminine desires. While the movie only contained a glamour sequence, That’s
Entertainment, Part III reveals an alternative sequence was filmed.
Together, they capture the duality of the 1950’s woman. Glamour girl or
home-maker: pick one (1) and costume your favorite Tonner/Effanbee female
fashion doll. For inspiration, the song is available as an mp3 download at
(http://www.amazon.com/Lady-Loves-I-Love-Melvin/dp/B0012F8TL4/ref=sr_1_31?ie=UTF8&s=dmusic&qid=1235455876&sr=1-31)
or the lyrics are attached at the
bottom of this page.
#8 – “The Devil Wears Prada”:
Whether in the movies, on television, or
through photography, film has celebrated fashion, sometimes changing
overnight what women want in their fashion look. Just such an ability to
influence taste inspired “Think Pink” in Funny Face. You are the fashion
editor celebrated in such movies as Funny Face and The Devil Wears Prada.
Your next issue will reach the newsstands in June, in which you will preview
your “new look” for the summer season. Costume your favorite
Tonner/Effanbee female fashion doll (1) as the cover girl for the issue.
# 9 – Super Agent Man:
Super spys, super heroes, and super villains
– whether based on science fiction, murder mysteries, spy thrillers, or
comic books, populate our favorite television shows and movies. Costume your
favorite (1) Tonner male or female fashion doll for the genre, either as a
new super character or an existing favorite. Use your imagination. Identify
your inspiration on a 3 x 5 index card.
General Category:
#10 -
Crafts/Embroidery:
Are you skilled in crafts,
including quilting, embroidery, millinery, shoe-making, furniture making,
set or interior design, and any other homespun art or artistic product?
Please submit your craft themed to “In Film” in this competition category.
Item must have been made by the entrant and will be judged on creativity,
design, and quality of workmanship. Please note that typically, this
category is not for dolls or doll outfits; which are better suited toward
the design categories; judges may choose to move doll and doll outfits from
this category to any of the other competition categories that may be more
appropriate.
#11 - Photography: Let us enjoy your photography talents. Please submit an 8 x 10
photograph in a stand up frame. The image must be inspired by an actual television
show or movie or represent a theme from an actual television show or movie.
The image may include dolls – or it may not. If dolls are included, the costumes need
not have been made by the photographer/entrant. Photograph must be accompanied
by a 3 x 5 card identifying the TV show or movie that inspired you.
Criteria for Judging: Composition, lighting, use of color (or not), imagination in
interpreting the theme.
A LADY LOVES
From the film "I Love Melvin" (1953)
(Josef Myrow / Mack Gordon)
Debbie Reynolds & Male Chorus – 1953
Male Chorus:
We are the gentlemen of the press, yes we are,
yes we are, yes indeed, indeed, we are
Our editors sent us to you
To interview you
But you . . .you are America’s pride and joy
You’re the prettiest, prettiest glamour girl we
find
Yes you are, yes you are, yes indeed indeed you
are
The facts that we want must be positively
feminine
We don’t wanna know when you have tea if you put
cream or lemon in
Lady:
Well the facts I give are geuinine, intimately,
feminine. .
A lady loves expensive clothes
pretty jewels, and furs, and french chapeaus
She loves her lingerie in black
It suits her zodiac
Loves a penthouse where she'll be content to stay
finds little gifts on her breakfast tray
but now and then pack and sail away
for a simple Riviera holiday.
A lady loves beaucoup l'amour
but first of all she loves to be secure
and she adores the subtle phrase
that it's the man who pays
Yet there is one vital thought she will place
above
all the things I mention of
that most of all a lady loves to love
(musical bridge)
Male Chorus:
A lady loves her phobias
She has complexities she will insist
Lady:
It gives her things to talk about with her
psychiatrist
Male Chorus:
Incidentally whenever she drops her glove
Gentlemen know what she's thinking of
Lady:
That most of all a lady loves to love
Male Chorus:
And what is more a lady loves to live
Lady:
And what is more lady lives to love
A lady loves the simple
things
She loves her dreams tied up
with apron strings.
There are no yachts in all
her plans
Just little pots and pans
In the doorway she’ll wait
for his warm caress
And he’ll be handsome – well
– or less
But he will notice her brand
new dress
Saying ‘you look nice, oh,
never mind the price’
A lady loves that average
guy who just adores her homemade apple pie
The apple pie he knows that
she bought in a bakery
When with her goodnight
kiss, he will be endowed
She’ll have him high on a
cloud above
But most of all, a lady
loves to love
Male Chorus:
What is more, a lady loves
to live
Lady:
What is more, a lady lives
to love.