WEEK 3
Welcome back fishies, this week during class (on my birthday), we received our approved risk assessment and began working on our dream film. First we used our class time to start to nail down the plot of the story and the characters, deciding on having two main characters with the three other friends as supporting characters. The two main characters consist of Ollie who will be played by yours truly, and Albert, (who's name we may change depending on who we end up casting for the role). Ollie is the character who turns out to be psychotic and 'Albert', his victim. For the role, I will have to bring out my professional acting skills to recreate the masculine character I will be playing, tapping into the practice I've had for the first 18 years of my life. To progress on our film, we started working on our costume design and moving forward with the development of our aesthetic. We decided to go op shopping for costumes and found a classic button down white shirt that my character will wear with a pair of jeans I bought from Kmart and some beat up Vans to create the teenage casual vibe but also bring attention to my costuming to juxtapose the bright graffiti of the setting as a main character and the white shirt with light jeans will create a nice contrast against the bright red blood that I will eventually be covered in. As no one is willing to donate real blood for the film, nor an arm, we also worked on props this week, finding realistic fake arms and looking for realistic looking fake blood recipes. As well as this, we discovered the perfect murder weapon that Mason found in his house, which is a little suspicious but it works with the film so I guess we'll ignore that for now. I will attach photos/links of all props below.
Overall, my team worked really well this week and are planning on zooming tomorrow to knock out the script, plan filming times and hopefully work on solutions for lighting considering the setting is so dark and we will need a fair bit of artificial lighting to film, however we need to ensure that it fits with the aesthetic. I feel like we are on track with our progress but need to make sure this week is really productive to stay that way. I'm looking forward to beginning our filming this week and having fun with our vision.
Till next week, just keep swimming goldfishes!
