PROPS AND LIGHTING - PREPRODUCTION PLANNING

Props

In our film, we don't use a huge amount of props but we do use a few on the train scene. The props we will be using on our film and why are presented in this post.

Ipods:

We will be using 2 ipods in our film. They are key props as our female character will enter the train with an iPod in her ear playing extremely loud music, while later on the male character will get an iPod out from his pocket and choose a song to play which will spark a conversation between the 2 characters. Our choices are an iPod touch and nano.

                                  

This means that for the male characters iPod, we will need an iPod that we can see the screen quite clearly as the character next to him would need to be able to see it in order to start the conversation regarding that song or artist of the song.

When deciding what ipod to use, we have to decide what one is best for filming. The Ipod touch has a bigger screen and so will be easier to view what artist the character is listening to as it has a picture of the artist nearly fully on the screen whereas the iPod nano screen is very small and it wouldn't be easily viewable to the audience or the other character. Another reason why we will use the ipod touch in filming is that the ipod nano we have available is pink and the male character will be using this ipod which to the audience, may be wondering a male has a bright pink ipod and may not fit our characters persona and so we will be using the ipod touch.

Mobile Phone:

Our female character in our film will be using a mobile phone and we will see her talking on it as well as the screen light up and see a person calling her. We will a have a selection of phones for use on the day which all have quite large screens and so would all be able to be used on our film. 

Crisps

 One of our scenes involed the girl annoying the boy by russelling and eating a packet of crisps. So we have asked the female character her favourite flavour as she would have to be eating quite a few in order for us to get the shot we want. We have choosen walkers because it is a very well known brand and it will be obvious what the item is in her hand. We must remmeber to bring a few packets so that we have a few attemps come the day of filming. 



Lighting:

As we are on a train which is a very small and controlled environment, we don't want to much to take on with us as we have restricted space as it is. If we have a need for lighting (As trains have their own lighting in the carriages) we will need a handheld/portable light as we will not have enough room for a large lighting device with an umbrella.

We will also have to take into account some scenes with the flashback and platform. These are outside and we don't want to use a large lighting kit outdoors, if the weather is bad outside whereas a portable one would be easier to use in bad weather.