Props

Here are some of the props we used whilst filming. The Mise en Scene of our opening was vital as it is meant to be set in between 1930s. Therefore it was important to get props that did not look modern so that they would not look out of place. Here are a few photos of props we used for our opening.

The diary is the focal point of our opening therefore it was the most important item on the agenda as it had to look realistic within the time period. We bought three of these diaries so that we could edit them and practise with them. We preferred them to the other diaries we looked at as we thought it has interesting pages and an interesting lock to manipulate when we filmed.

Here is the matchbox we used for filming. Our opening starts with a man lighting a candlebox using a matchbox, therefore in order to establish the 1930s tone we needed to use a matchbox that looked suitable for the time period. The Ship matchbox was the best option of out the three matchboxes we had as it looked older than the Swans matchbox and was a better size than the Cook's Matchbox.

This is the candle we used in our opening . We liked this candle because of the arch created an interesting light and it added to the 'deranged' tone of the opening. The candle is used throughout the opening and is moved around the show the antagonists schitzophrenic mind state. 

Unfortunately we were unable to get any papers from the 1930s in time for filming. We ordered one but the seller refused to mention that it was just the front page of the newspaper. Therefore we had to use a newspaper from the late 80s instead. Initially we had just planned on having the newspaper on the table as an extra prop. Instead whilst filming we decided to have it spread over the table so that we could be more creative with the ink and to make the scene more messy and interesting.

Another prop we used within our opening was the use of children's photo. Our opening is about a psychotic pedophile who is framing the suicide of a child to cover up his murder. We thought that having pictures of children scattered over the table would give the audience a clearer indication of the murderers motivation without giving to much of the plot away. We took many different pictures of Ryan and myself and scattered them around the table. This particular picture was covered in red ink whilst filming in order to suggest this child is a target of the killer