Planning for the Filming Process

    Hello. It is finally time for my group and I to start the filming process for our final project. Due to our schedules we have not been able to film yet. This blog is going to be about our planning for our planning for when we start filming. There are a couple of factors that we need to think about before we can film. These factors are: the mis en scene, other people’s schedule, time of day, and ability to get around. My group and I still need to organize some parts of our common mis en scene, specifically the props, costumes, and make-up. The props that we still need are a fake knife and the notes that we have to leave around. We also need to get some costumes, mainly the one that Ava will be wearing because that one is going to get blood on it it and we don’t want to ruin any of our actual clothes; we also need to get a costume for the “watcher” character. The last thing we need is fake blood for the dead body that we’re gonna create. We plan on making DIY blood out of corn syrup and food coloring, this is because it’s cheaper and less toxic.
    We also need to take into consideration before we start filming are other group members schedules. Many of us participate in after school clubs and have to go work on the week-ends. This makes it difficult for us to be able to get together to film for our project. We also need to work out the time of day. Since our movie takes place at night, it is very important for us to make the scenes look like it’s nighttime. The time of day is important because the darkness of nighttime helps us to establish the creepy and mysterious mood to our film. The last factor that we need to look into is our ability to get around to where we need to be. It can be very difficult for us to be able to get to the two different locations that we need to be at since we don’t have cars to drive ourselves. We have to rely on others to get to our filming locations which can be a big risk, our main solution to this problem is to just take an Uber or Lyft to the filming locations. This action may cost us some money but it shouldn’t be too much.  We think we’ve found a way to work through all those issues by splitting up the filming dates by location. We are going to film all the scenes we need to as many times as we need to in order to have to limit filming days. With that we are also getting together all our costumes, props, and make-up so that we can start filming.