At ‘Select Society’ we have considerable ‘consultancy’ experience in relation to TV, Film, and Radio productions.
If you are in the pre-production stage of a historically themed film, TV, or radio project and need advice, assistance, or the services of someone who can aid your project, in terms of:
- historical accuracy
- content
- provision of unusual ‘props’ or equipment
- provision of specialist skills
Contact ‘Select Society’’ where, in particular, we ‘specialise’ in matters relating to:
- Crime & Punishment, across a range of time periods,
- Social, domestic, and military history of the Georgian and Regency period
We are able to provide:
- advice on ‘scripts’ for technical and historical accuracy
- the provision of costumed interpreters for historical events, film and TV productions
- access to interpreters with specialist skills
- access to a range of military and social history items (‘props’ and costume) to dress scenes and locations
- an extensive range of detailed briefing documents, offering information on a wide variety of topics for use by production researchers/cast/crew and event promoters
In respect of social and domestic matters we are able to advise on:
- Etiquette – forms of address, conduct & behaviour
- Life style – fashionable society and the lower orders
- Food and cooking – the process, equipment etc
- The Art of Dining – how this most important of social skills was performed
- Servants – employment, duties, conduct
- Domestic matters – cleaning, laundry, lighting etc
- Costume – who wore what, changes in style, fashion, accessories etc
- Popular pursuits – card games, entertainment, pass-times, places of resort
- Crime and Punishment – popular unrest, the ‘bloody code’, execution etc
- Aspects of everyday life – marriage, death, transport, medicine etc
- Fiscal matters – money, taxation, trade, agriculture
- Words and speech – the common idiom
- Advice on the use of items (‘props’) appropriate to the production
In respect of Military matters, we are able to advise on:
- The Napoleonic War – the Peninsular, Waterloo
- The British Army – Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery, officers, recruiting, regiments etc
- The life of a soldier – on campaign, conditions, uniform, equipment, rations, weapons, drill, wives, military medicine etc
- Wellington: his life and times – command, strategy, politics, later years etc
- Defence of the Realm – Militia, fortifications, invasion plan etc
- Words & speech – words: social, military and vulgarian!
- Advice on the use of items (‘props’) appropriate to the production