Production Blog: A Few Things I Forgot to Mention

 Hey bloggers and welcome back to my blog, today's blog is going to be a bit different from what's recently been uploaded. The last few blogs have been about editing and improving my opening sequence to get ready for submission. This blog however, is more about what I forgot to mention over the past few months like how we got the props for our set and how as a group we worked together. To begin with how we gathered the props necessary to make our scenes look the best possible. We first picked up a gorilla suit from party city and made sure it was breathable so the person using it wouldn't overheat. Since we also couldn't use a real dead animal, we had to improvise using rags and making an animal like shape. We also had made our own fake blood using a cheap recipe with ingredients we already had. The blood turned out too sticky and far too bright and cartoony, so I scrapped it. We then just went and brought an entire gallon of dark fake blood in order to have the most professional and immersive effect on the opening sequence. We then almost wasted it all creating a blood trail for one of our scenes which was pretty foolish. Another thing the group as a whole did in preparation for the production of our opening sequence was coming together socially in order to make sure we were going to be comfortable on set. After hanging out for a bit and socializing we all went over our lines to make sure we wouldn't mess them up during filming. It took us quite a bit of time to not die of laughter every time one of us started reading out their lines. I also went out and brought snacks while we were filming in order to keep a calm environment between all of us. I also brought towels and blankets so that when we shot the scenes in the rain we would not get sick. I also reminded the group to all bring a spare change of clothes in order to keep warm after we were done filming. Despite this some of us still got sick after filming which was somewhat unfortunate. I also forgot to mention we had to get a permit to film at the state park we were filming at which was an unnecessarily complicated process. This took several days and almost made us miss the weather we needed to film. Thank you for reading bloggers and hope you have a great day!














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