It's finally spring break! This week has felt so long and i'm glad its finally time for this much needed break. Yesterday, I met up with my partner Stephanie and we started talking about storyboarding and other details. We have our story and know what we want it to look like, but "who's going to play the part, what will they where, and where will this take place?" are all questions that went through our heads. Both Stephanie and I clearly imagine the main character being a female, brunette, around 16/17 years old, and having a seemingly innocent appearance. Since a few of our friends fit this criteria, we need to choose the one that would play the part the best. We also need two other people to play the victim and the murderer. The murderer would preferably be a guy, dressed in dark clothing, but if we can't find a guy to play the part we might have to go with either not showing the criminal's face or the criminal being a girl (which would mean a slight change in the plot too). Aside from casting, we've also been thinking about the ideal filming locations. This part is not as complicated since the majority of the film opening takes place inside a house. We were between my house and Stephanie's, but considering Stephanie's house is larger it was the better option.
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| Similar look too protagonist (left). Creepy, dark, mysterious criminal (right). |
We have also been thinking about the set design. Once the main character walks into her home, we want both her and the audience to sense that something's not right. In order to get that across, there has to be some sort of disorder within the house like broken decorations, an open door, things that are out of place, a messy bedroom, etc... Along with the set, a big part of our scene is going to be the hurt body on the floor. To make that look realistic as possible we're going to use fake blood and a technique we learned in class, to make scars and oozing wounds.
One last thing that I want to mention, once again, is the title placement. On Friday night, I saw a movie called
10 Cloverfield lane and was intrigued by its opening scene. I loved the way they included the title within their opening, and had to share it with Stephanie. Sadly when I was looking for its opening scene yesterday, to show Stephanie, I couldn't find it. The best I could do was explain it to her, just like I'm about to explain it to you. The movie starts out with the protagonist driving her car, and as she looks down at her ringing phone, for the second time, she crashes. Instead of her crashing and that being all, the director decided to go back and forth between her crashing and a few credits. I thought it was a great way to make the scene more dramatic and show the credits and title while not making the scene seem too long. I also thought the background music that was chosen for this film was so great and that something like that would be perfect for my film opening. After I explained it to Stephanie, I showed her the
trailer and noticed that they used a very similar technique at the beginning of the trailer. I'm not completely sure if this technique would be good for us to use, but we're definitively going to try it out.
10 Cloverfield Lane Trailer (2016). Dir. Dan Trachtenberg. YouTube. YouTube, 15 Jan. 2016. Web.
"10 Cloverfield Lane." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. Web.
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