A Change of Setting

    Sooo... We had a little change of plans... In class today, we decided that we might have to change the setting of our film. We originally wanted to have our film take place in an empty all-white room, but we've come to face the fact that it will be very unrealistic and tedious to do. None of us have a plain white room in our houses that fit the description of the set we imagined or originally wanted. The idea of using the photography backdrops I mentioned before was way too expensive and would amount to us spending hundreds of dollars, so for obvious reasons, we will not be pursuing that idea.

    Today in class, we were brainstorming ideas for where to film. We were thinking of asking our friend Kim, who has an all-white room in her house, for permission to film at her house, but figured it would be too big of a favor to ask for considering how extensive the filming process is, and we also don't want to have to move objects in her house around. 

    We decided that another reasonable setting for our film could be in the middle of a forest. This is also a more realistic option as we could film at Markham Park, which has large forest areas, is free to access, and is less than 10 minutes away from my house. I know of many students who have shot short films here, and I even shot a Music Video as part of a project for this course earlier this year at Markham Park (I'll leave a screenshot from it below). The forest setting could create the same sense of mystery we wanted to create through the all-white room, and it might even allow us to alter our script to incorporate the setting into it!

A BTS picture from the shooting at Markham Park. There is a large forest area behind where the picture is taken.