Friday, March 15, 2024

Props

3/15

Today I will be discussing the different props that my partner, Reeves, and I will be using for our production. 

We will be using plastic red cups to illustrate that the characters are drinking alcohol. To further illustrate that our characters are drinking alcohol is using a brown paper bag with a bottle inside that contains any type of liquid that isn't actually alcohol. Only one of the characters will be holding a paper bag because I feel like it will look weird if everybody was holding a bottle of wine or champagne. Therefore the person that will be holding the paper bag with the bottle will be pouring the drink into the red cups that everybody else is holding.

Moreover, we will also be using golf balls for the shots where the characters are playing cup pong. "What golf balls?" you may be asking. We weren't able to get pong balls for the cup pong game so we decided to use golf balls since they are the closest thing that looks like pong balls and Reeves so happens to have hundreds of them because he plays golf. The only problem with this is that the golf balls knock down the cups easily when thrown so water will be going everywhere. Therefore, we have to try to shoot this shot in one scene because the ping pong table and the characters clothes will end up looking wet for the other shots. We will also leave this shot for last.

Another prop that we will be incorporating in the hang out scene is a deck of cards. The deck of cards are so common when hanging out with friends that we had to include it so that our viewers can feel a sense of relatability. We will show this prop by making a shot of the group of friends sitting together and playing a card game. I also plan of using the deck of cards to create a graphic match to emphasize a time skip of everybody being too drunk and tired.

Now for the scene of the murdering we will use a gold club as a weapon to attack Dan. We will also use a knife at the very end of the film opening when the serial killer kills Dan. No we are not going to use any type of blood for this scene. Why? Well because we thought to take a different approach of making the audience hooked. Instead we are just going to have a shot in the complete darkness of Dan screaming to illustrate that he has been stabbed by the knife. This will have the audience hooked to watch more because it creates a sense of curiosity to know why he was screaming or how was he killed. Therefore it will also make the audience think and use their imagination, which is a way to keep the audience engaged.






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