If It’s in the Frame, It Matters: Prop making

 For our film opening, there are many props that go into it, which gives us an insight to the minds and personalities of the characters. Let's talk about them!

1. Detective Board for room scene

To me, this was the most important prop in the opening, because it's the first impression of what Adam's had to go through in the year within the time skip that we imply. The key was in the details, showing exactly how off the rails he's gotten.

Obviously I had no access to real police files or evidence of a crime scene, so my mom had the most genius idea ever: my family loves a game night, and our favorite games in particular are actually the murder mystery games where you get sent a bunch of files and evidence and try to solve a murder using the evidence provided. It contains witness statements, police reports, pictures of potential suspects, maps, pictures of a crime scene, and they all look pretty legit. Since I have a whole drawer filled with some old mysteries me and my family solved, I thought using the papers from the game and having a little arts and crafts night to suit them to our accident would look super cool and real on camera. So, I went digging through a bunch of boxes and found some pictures I thought suited our car crash.

I found:

- a map of a town;  I wrote on it with red pen to show a "plan" forming (he's figuring out traffic patterns and best routes to take)

- several witness statement files

- pictures taken on a camera of a road with caution tape

- text message screenshots (I doodled on them to make it look like he was trying to find some sort of secret code on them)

- security camera footage of a road with a girl's body on the floor

- Newspaper I ripped into small sections (I doodled on these as well, as if he was finding clues in them)

- a note he would send to the people responsible for his girlfriends death (says something along the lines of "you will pay for what you did")

- a drawing of cars racing through street (like he's analyzing exactly how the crash occurred)

- a picture taken on a camera of the killer's keys (there's keychains on them and I doodled on some writing as if he's figuring out what each keychain means)

and several other small details to make it seem more naturally placed and like he did it himself. I also labeled each thing I put on the board with sticky notes, like he's trying to arrange his thoughts, and I took some red yarn and ran it throughout the board like he's trying to put all the pieces together like a puzzle. 

Addison's also going to print out a newspaper with her face on it since she's playing Sarah, and we're gonna stick it in the middle, to show that Sarah is the catalyst of Adam's whole mental breakdown and the reason he's doing all of this. 

here's a picture of how it ended up. I doodled and fixed them up and I think it looks really cool and once we put it on our set and play around with lighting and editing, I think it would be super creepy and unsettling to look at:

2. memorabilia of Sarah for room scene

For Adam I thought there needed to be an emotional detail of having many different elements of Sarah scattered throughout his room, to show the actual gap she's left him now that she's been gone. Not only memorabilia but also aspects to show how he's been living without her. 

memorabilia consists of:

- framed pictures of them together

- matching bracelets that is now only one on his nightstand

- her stuffed animals

- gifts she may have gotten him (baskets of stuff)

- love letters she wrote him

aspects to show his mental state: 

- glasses and dishes left around his room

- messy clothes on the floor

- pills on nightstand (maybe sleeping ones because he has trouble sleeping since that night)

Here are some things I'm gonna bring to fill the room:

3. Flowers and card for the car scene

This last one's really just a note to self, but I'm still gonna document to show my thought process. I want to get some flowers but kinda of wilt them a little and an anniversary card but try to rip it up a bit. I want to do this because in the car before they crash, Sarah and Adam are fighting. I wanna show how in their last moments together, rather that appreciate their love, they were angry at each other. This will add to Adam's breakdown later on as he feels some partial guilt for that being his last interaction with Sarah before she died. So, note to self; BUY THAT AND MAKE IT

some inspiration for what I want: 

OKAYYY now that that's been thought out, filming can begin! We are gonna start filming this week and hopefully be done within the next 2 weeks. 

KBlog, byeeee!!!