Setting the Scene

 Although I may be slightly behind schedule, I still hope to finish this project as early as possible. In this week, before spring break, I hope to renovate my  room and the other areas I will use during filming. Some of these changes will be remodeling and painting the entire room. The room will change to a more neutral, since the colors do not match and will take attention away from the opening sequence. The room will change from bamboo green walls and denim blue ceiling. Not only is that a bad color combination as none of the colors compliment and give good options for accent, but neither colors match the solid wood floors. The wood is a darker-yellow orange, a nearly completely opposite color. As mentioned, I will pain both the ceiling and the walls minimalistic white and place decorations in the room to accent it. After this process, I can begin filming the indoor shots using the tripod and camera. All three colors are shown below. The majority of the time, the opening sequence will be set at night. However, I may use natural sunlight at dusk or dawn. I feel that this can establish the scene for the viewer and also give the illusion that a lot of time is passing. Also, I will only be able to shoot the outdoor scenes at a high quality if there if some natural light. Otherwise, the entire shot will be a collage of black smudges with a dim moon in the background. This is convenient since daylight savings time has just sprung our clocks forward an hour. This means that it stays bright outside until much later hours of the evening. Moving on to props, I have all the props ready for use except for the glowing orb. I think that to get the effect, the ball itself does not have to glow, but rather, I can set a light to refract around the sphere. The light would be best seen at nighttime with very low artificial lighting inside the house. Another thing to look out for is to not pick the ball up from its resting position, or else the light will not align all the production equipment will be revealed.








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