The Mom Scene

Today, I had filmed the "mom scene" with my own mom, playing the role of the victims mother who is in sorrow for her daughter missing. I had filmed the scene in front of my house, and made my mom act as if she was hammering a "missing person" sign of her own daughter, then crying and walking away. I made my mother dress in dark, plain clothes showing that she doesn't care about the way she looks/presents herself in public because of her daughters missing. I also put some dark black eyebrow makeup under her eyes to make it seem as if she has been crying for days. To make it seem like she doesn't care about the way she looks, I also teased her hair to make it look raggedy and uncared for.


For the mom scene, this is the missing person flyer that my mother (the victims mother) was hanging up. My partner and I made sure to put the word "missing" in big red colors so that it can really stand out in this scene.

Makeup, Murder & Madness

Ariana and I went back to the same exact spot in Markham park as we did before when we filmed our other video that we are now not using anymore. We directed Vernie to run into the same area that we filmed in before, and this time we were pretty familiarized with the area so it was easy to know which spots would make good shots in. Down below are some pictures of my partner and I filming in the woods again, directing Vernie to run through the woods for the woods scene.




The make up:

 .                                                The makeup we did on Vernie for the closet scene turned out to be so good and looked realistic!!!! To make Vernie seem like she had bruises and cuts on her body, we simply melted bright red lipstick from a microwave and put it in a mixture with black eyeshadow and blue eyeshadow on a makeup brush and BAM!! We also put coffee beans all over Vernie's body to seem as if she was dragged in the dirt through the woods by the murderer. This make up is for the final scene of Vernie, when she wakes up in Arianas closet and discovers that she is somewhere she is unfamiliarized with and is scared.






The location:

For the location of the scene where Vernie is supposed to be in the murderers lair, we cleaned out Arianas closet and put in an old mattress so she can lay on in there to make the lair seem disheveled. We liked how the lighting (towards the right of Ariana) is bright in only one area, making the rest of the "lair" seem faint and dull.

 

Tomorrow, I am filming the "mom scene" where my mom is playing Vernie's mom and is hanging up a missing person sign of Vernie. 

Getting ready to film....again

Today my partner Ariana and I are going to meet up at our first location of our film opening today: the Library by Cypress Bay High School. For this scene, we need Vernie (our actress) to pretend like she is walking out of school with a backpack on with her "boyfriend", which is actually going to be played by Ariana's boyfriend. After we film that scene, we are going to head to Markham Park to re-film the woods scene, since we didn't like the other woods scene that we filmed previously. After were done filming in Markham Park, we are going to go to Arianas house to film the "closet scene" where Vernie is pretending to be trapped in the murderers lair. For this scene, we are going to incorporate fake blood, raggedy clothes and other props that make Arianas closet look stingy and used. We are going to try to finish filming today as soon as possible so that next week, we can start editing our film opening.

Race To the Finish (Out)line

My partner Ariana and I finally finished with our new script and we also wrote our final outline for our film opening!!! In our story outline, we included a beginning scene of the murderer stalking the victim at school. This way, we can develop a story for why she wants to stalk her. We are trying to make a notion that the murderer is low key in love with the victim, and that is why she stalks her up to the woods scene. We are adding in a shot of the murderer stalking her at school, while looking at a picture of the victim and her boyfriend, with the boyfriend purposely scribbled out. This added scene makes it less confusing and makes it easier for the audience to know why the murderer is interested in the victim. We also crossed out some of the scenes on our story outline for our whole flashback idea. Each flashback that the victim was supposed to receive is now crossed out. This works fine because we can just skip over those scenes, and the overall video will still make sense. Down below is a picture of our new story line.




We also wrote our new script to our new story line. I'm glad we made the conversation between the victim and the murderer less awkward and more focused on the point that the murderer wants to get to know the victim better and lets her know she's been watching her at school. Down below is a picture of our new and improved script.

Changing More Scripts Than Lightbulbs

So I talked to my partner and she loves the flashback idea!! After discussing it with her, we wrote another whole script that ties in with the entire flashback idea. It was great until we realized that it was getting too repetitive to be throughout the entire opening, and it was a bit cliche. We also realized that we couldn't even use the shots that we already have because the flashbacks will need to show a point of view from the victim, and we took shots from a third eye view. After figuring that out, we decided to make ANOTHER script (we haven't finished it yet) to go along with a new story line for how and why the murderer wants to stalk the victim. We decided to make the murderer "in love" with the victim, and act out as a reason of jealousy when she sees the victim with her boyfriend. This storyline makes more sense and could be very realistic. We are also going to make a tangible schedule list as a prop for the murderer to have to follow to know exactly wherever the victim is going.

Photoshoot Time

I mentioned the flashback idea with my partner and she told me she would get back to me as soon as she's finished with her college tour trip. For now, I am going to take the pictures of Vernie in different locations wearing different clothes for each picture. This way, it makes it seem like the murderer has been stalking the victim and watching her schedule for days, weeks, or months now. Im going to take pictures of Vernie in multiple locations: Markham Park, at a restaurant (any food place in Town Center), and a picture of her at a grocery store (like Publix or Walmart).

Peer flashback idea

Talking with some of my peers today in class, someone had mentioned that I should incorporate flashbacks throughout my film opening instead of it being chronological. They mentioned that the very first scene of the film opening should be when after the victim is kidnapped and put in a white random room (which will be Arianas closet) that the victim should look down at her scars, and try to remember how she even got them, and her trying to remember will "flashback" to the scenes of her at the woods. After showing my classmates what I have filmed so far, they mentioned that instead of having the scenes leading up to the kidnapping, (like the dialogue and the part where the murderer is looking and walking up to the victim) they feel as if it will take up too much time. I REALLY like this idea and will have to talk with my partner about it when she comes back from her college tour. Actually, this idea of the flashbacks is great because we already have the shots of the victim running from the murderer, so all we would have to do is intertwine those shots in between other shots of the victim looking down at her cuts and bruises from the woods scene. So each injury that she has gotten, she "looks back" and remembers exactly how she got them in the woods, which are the scenes we already have. My classmates also mentioned how in the end of the opening (where the victims mom is stapling the missing person picture of her daughter on a tree) should have the murderer there with the victims mom. I kind of like that idea because it is more entertaining and shocking by seeing the murderer physically with the mom, knowing exactly that she is the main cause of everything.