Project 4: Planning

This class we began looking at the different steps we had to complete for a successful project and planned how we would accomplish them. We would need to come up with a script and identify all characters and set elements that we wanted to design. We determined what materials we would need for set and costume design, different colors of black light paint, black lights, cardboard to paint on, black felt, and Christmas lights. We needed to rent a video camera to film the scenes in Kansas and we planned to use Mia's digital camera to take the still pictures in the dark.

We really didn't know precisely how we wanted to do the filming in the dark but we did some test shots with both the video camera and still digital camera in the dark with a small light to see how they would work. We checked and found that we could get the room upstairs in DAAS to incredibly low light levels so we decided to use that location to film our in-the-dark scenes. For the Kansas scenes we decided to film in Andrea's apartment where we often had our group meetings.

After we would complete the filming, we knew that we would need to do a lot of film editing to compile all of our motion and still shots together. We also didn't want to worry about sound while filming so all cohesiveness and context to the story would be added through post production sound editing.

The final part of our planning was how we would exhibit our short film in the art show. We wanted to show our video on a wall using a projector and we planned to display different set and costume elements for viewers to look at so they could see the difference between what we worked with and what they were watching on screen.