For this week’s
assignment, I wanted to elaborate a bit on my interpretations of the main role,
mainly the characteristics of Brendan and the killer role.
Yesterday we held our second reading meeting
and have 3 more scheduled for next week, Monday, Tuesday as well as on the
weekend. The scheduling has been the hardest obstacle thus far. The majority of
our actors are still in school, whether it be high school or middle which ends
on the 19th. We still plan to begin shooting on the 15th,
although it will be mostly scenes of the killer as well as the indoor scenes
with the killer/Brendan and Gavin.
Now like I said, as
far as the personality traits that I feel are important and want to express on
film, Brendan being the most important. With this character I feel that the
bullying over the time while in school took it’s toll on his psyche. This is
evident in the relationship between him and the bully Nate. I feel this is also
evident when the character Jimmy is around. The fact that the youngest
character in the script is also the leader, something that I feel really shows
just how lost Brendan is, tells a true sign to how broken down Brendan’s self
esteem is. This unfortunately changes once the Killer role is implemented. The
scene when the mask is being made and again the initial time that Brendan holds
the machete, I feel the power within Brendan start to emerge and that is what I
need to show on film. I also feel that with each killing, the power begins to
consume him. I want to show that the killings are almost to feed the power, as
each victim in some way was to halt the kid’s movie making which would have
stopped the killer from becoming.
This week we also
designed the costumes. While all of the roles besides the killer and the
security guard are just wearing casual, everyday clothing, I had to figure out
which character had the possibility of their clothes becoming ruined with the
blood and figured out options for this part of the film. With the killing of
Nate, we would not be showing the actual murder on film. It is implied however
we will be showing a cut scene to the body when it is discovered. For this we
had to come up with a formula that would look realistic, yet would be washable.
What I found was this method:
Basically this
formula works using corn syrup mixed with water in a 3 to 1 mixture. Then you
would add red food coloring, a small amount of blue or green and to thicken it
up, flour. This blood will be sticky and dry like real blood and thankfully
will not stain the skin, however clothing will be ruined.
We will be making a
small batch this weekend and will post a video of it.
http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Fake-Blood
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