ೃ⁀➷ PREPARING TO FILM *ೃ༄

 Hi everyone, welcome back to my blog! Today I will be talking about my groups filming and our preparation to film.

ACTORS

Actors are very important in our movie, as we need teenagers who will embody the role of the friend group. We will have a diverse friend group of both boys and girls. The friend group is of 7 people, and four of the actors will be my group (Aleena, Samantha, Sofia, and me), while the other 3 will be played by other friends of us. The reason we are using friends is so that it is easier for us to act as our characters friend group and bond together. Specifically for my media studies group, we will each act well in playing our roles in the friend group; for example Samantha plays a crucial role in acting scared in the pool scene of our opening.

COSTUMES

For our costumes, since our opening is taking place at a sleepover, we will all be wearing pajamas to help the audience connect the dots that it is a sleepover hangout. The pajamas will be teenagers style in the 2020's as well, since our main characters are teens in the present time. For the narrator, her full costume will not be shown, but the audience will know of her black gloves, to hide their identity from the audience and to not leave fingerprints on any crime scene.

PROPS:

The main prop in our film opening is the deck of cards. As you can see in my previous blog (the storyboard), the cards were used in the title sequence to resemble the deaths and the roles of each player, and they were used during the actual playing of the mafia game with the friend group. The cards give off further mystery to the game, and help determine the rest of the movie. 

LOCATIONS:

In the film opening, we will only have 2 locations: The inside of the sleepover house and the outside backyard with the pool. The film opening mainly takes place inside the sleepover house, where they play the mafia game, and where the polaroids, burning letter, and entire title sequence is filmed.  Outside of the sleepover house with the pool is where the first death will be filmed. Since we are using a real location it would make the noise less controllable than a studio, however it adds realism to our film.

DATES AND TIMES:

At first, me and my group had conflicting dates and times to film due to vacations. However, we decided to start filming in January, specifically the 2nd-3rd week. The times do not matter in the case of filming the sleepover inside, as we can simply close the curtains and turn the lights off to create a dark atmosphere. However, for filming outside, it would be preferred to be darker so that the eerie atmosphere is maintained. Also, we want there to be candles lit as the only light, so it would need to be darker. This is good because it currently gets darker quick.

FILM EQUIPMENT:

The film equipment we will use depends on the scene we are filming. For certain scenes, such as the sleepover scenes, we will borrow cameras and lavalier microphones from Shortcuts TV. However for the underwater scenes, we will not use that equipment and rather use Sofia's GOPRO to film. This way we can avoid damage in any way. We will also use a drone for overhead swimming shots and our iphones for some small shots.