Planning: Props and Clothing

Props and Clothing

    Hey everyone! Now that we have our title and script, it's time to plan out what our characters are going to wear, the costume designs, and the props that are going to be used. 

    We have three characters: The two girls, Emma and Amberlin, and the killer. During the film, it is clear that both Emma and Amberlin are having a hangout/sleepover. We want them to wear something that they would most likely wear to a sleepover in real life, something comfortable. So, we contacted our actors and told them to wear something like sweatpants and hoodies. However, for our actor for Amberlin, her character gets killed and will have fake blood splattered on her shirt, so Isabella and I told her we were going to provide her with one. 

    We looked through stores for a shirt we could give to our actor. We knew that we wanted the color to be light, so that the blood was visible, and the right size for her to be comfortable enough. 

    We came across 3 shirts that we thought would be a good fit. A bright pink Peanuts shirt, a Blazy Susan pink hoodie, and a Seattle dark blue hoodie.

 

    We quickly ruled out the Seattle hoodie because we knew the color would be too dark and the blood wouldn't show. 

    The Blazy Susan hoodie was a good color, but we didn't know if it would fit our actor 100% or be too baggy. 

    Finally, our last clothing item standing was the Peanuts shirt. We thought it was a good color, would fit her, and was a shirt she could definitely use in the future. 

    A prop we had to prepare was the mask that would be on the killer. We wanted to make the mask original, so we got a white mask from Hobby Lobby. We also got a black cloth for the mask to go over the eyes so that the eyes wouldn't show. 

Process when making the mask:

    After panting and assembling our mask, it came out to look like this:

    Okay... so Isabella and I aren't great artists, BUT we don't expect all the details to come out in the film, as long as the mask looks a little dirtier and used. 

    Our last and final prop was the killer's murder weapon. We wanted something scary, but still safe to use in case anything happened. We were thinking of a prop knife, but it's hard to find them in the middle of March when it's not Halloween season.  So, we ended up going with a knife sharpener I had in my house that looks like this:

Thats it for all our props! Now we are all set to start filming!