Opening set!

Hello to anyone reading this! Today has been so random. I went to school like normal but like I said in my last post, this day has also FLOWN by. I literally cannot believe I went to school today because it just went by so fast. Anyway, I'm not going to talk too much nonsense because I'm sort of in a rush right now to do this!

Today I want to talk about how we're gonna do the set for the 2-minute film opening. 

So me and my partner ultimately decided on a dystopian society because of the area we live in. But we're doing a kind of dystopia where everything seems perfect and amazing which correlates with how our city is.

For the outdoor scenes, we will use either one of our neighborhoods. I live in a neighborhood with pretty big houses and my partner, Sofi, lives in a neighborhood with townhomes. The reason we're conflicted about this is because the big houses will convey the dystopia of the society because of the class differences but I honestly think it would be better to use her neighborhood because all the homes where she lives are exactly the same. This gives The Giver (2014) vibes, where everything is seen as the same, which is where we took some of the inspiration for our film. We still need to discuss this but we will 100% be using one of our neighborhoods to film the short outdoor scene we have planned for the opening.

P.S. These aren't our actual neighborhoods, but these are basically what the houses look like in the different ones.

Now this is one of the harder parts, the indoor scenes. We won't have to change much for the scenes but we haven't discussed this yet so I might talk about this in another post again but this is basically my idea for the indoor scenes. I live in a pretty large 2-story house and I have a spacious living room, so I think we could use my house to film the first scene with the girl watching the news and the clip of pouring coffee. It also works pretty well because my finish room is right next to my living room, so it would be accurate sound-wise as well. I will definitely move some things around if we do decide to do the scene in my house because I have a cat tower in my living room so my 3 adorable cats can be with us when we go downstairs. I will definitely have to move that if we do decide to do it in my house. The photos below are just to show how my house is sort of laid out, obviously, it's not exactly like this though.

This is, without a doubt, going to be the hardest part of making a set, which will be the scene of the news reporter speaking. The reason this will be difficult is because they use greenscreens for the news. I have plain grey walls in my room which we could use as a greenscreen but we will have to learn how to edit greenscreens and actually make them look good, which could be super hard, but obviously, we have to research that. The other option is maybe getting blue cloth because I feel like that's always the color used in the background of the news channels and just draping it on the walls, and putting a desk for the reporter to sit at. I was going to delete all of this but I want to show my complete thought process so I won't. I just remembered a way easier way to do all of this, just placing a desk in front of a big screen TV and having the news reporter sit in front of it. This will be kind of hard to get the angles right and make the background proportional to the reporter since we don't have the huge TVs that news companies use, but this is a way better option than the other two. 

Thank you for reading!