Shopping for Prop design!

 Shopping for our Prop Design

Today we went to look and find prop designs for our horror film opening. Today was very exciting as we are now ready to start filming on Friday! Finding prop designs are very important for the overall project as it helps make our project come to life and helps at depth to our film opening. We went to party city in hopes to find everything that we needed for this project such as the fake blood and some costumes, apparently they didn't have any left because its not Halloween. Our trip to party city was pretty useless as it didn't have anything that we were looking for since it sells things seasonally which none of us knew. However, this fail of trip helped us learn that party city isn't just a Halloween store as most of us only really ever go to Party City on Halloween. 

 We looked through every single isle at party city but had no luck. We were also looking at things for lighting mise-en-scene elements but decided that it was best that we go to Walmart as we needed to buy a yellow vest as part of our 'killers' costume design for our film opening. Once we went to Walmart, we had no idea if they even sold the yellow vest, and we were searching for isle by isle to find it. All in all, Party City was an epic failure, but we did not let that stop us from finding our main necessities for our film opening "The Landscaper." 

 After about 45 minutes of searching for the yellow vest, my group member Lenny found it near the gardening section at Walmart. This was the last place we checked before we were about to give up on our search and we were just going to go back home and accept defeat. This yellow vest was very important as we now have a clear costume design for our character in our opening film. This will help the viewer differentiate between the normal person and the killer in our opening film "The Landscaper". We chose "The Landscaper as our title as our opening film is based upon a crazy stalker landscaper who is still doing work in a person's backyard at night which is very unusual, and he ends up taking the people's lives... or does he? We must watch in order to find out. Overall, I chose to blog about our experience shopping for our prop designs as it shows a closer look at the journey for completing this horror film opening. This trip also gave us the opportunity to bond as a group and talk more about our overall film opening and how we will be executing it.