Week 1: Planning

Planning:

    We're finally starting, the new and improved, Where Dead Things Lie! After showing the opening to our classmates and receiving criticism, we're ready to start the next step to our film. Things will be different however, since one of our group members dropped the class. That shouldn't be too much of an issue, since she didn't help out too much...but different nonetheless.

    We're filming at the same spot, Elise's grandpa's house, and likely using the same or similar equipment as last time. For props, if we decide to use fake blood again, we'd obviously have to make a new batch. But other than that, I think we're using about the same props. (Knife, etc...)

Elise's Grandpa's House (Behind the Scenes)




    Elise is going to play our main character yet again, but we're going to need to find someone else to play a newly introduced character. That shouldn't be a problem, since a lot of our friends are in theatre. The reason they couldn't help the first time filming is because it was really close to one of their plays and everyone was really busy.

   Alice by Heart (aka why nobody could help us...)


I'm really excited to begin filming again since last time it was really fun. :) I can't wait to see what we come up with!!



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