Cambridge Portfolio Week 4 3/6, Set and Costume Design

 Hello, this is Week 4 of my Cambridge Portfolio Blog. I have not made any posts for the past week due to an amount of work and that I have been working on my storyboard. I will not be posting the full storyboard just yet, as I am not finished. I will talk about the other decisions I have made regarding my project such as the costume and set design. Here is an example page from my storyboard below. It is rough, but it will serve as a reference during filming.

 

 

 

For the set design, I have discussed this in minor detail. The shots take place in my house, a friend's house, and outside. The outside will remain somewhat untouched, since I am unable to do much physically since it is a public neighborhood. Despite the strange contrast am using this to my advantage by placing a look of confusion on the character's face as he sees the outside eerily normal, apart from the body parts he discovers on the ground. Despite the somewhat normal exterior the yellowish filter I have talked about before will convey that something is wrong. For the body parts, I will likely either edit them in digitally for the static shots, or create them myself, likely out of EVA foam. EVA foam is a soft material that you can cut and then mold when you use a heat gun. This may work for things like fingers or nails, though I may have to use something else for the eye, perhaps a painted ping pong ball.

For the character design, I only need to design a character for myself. The character in the film is unremarkable, simply sporting a T-shirt and shorts. The reason I am making strange contrasts is to make viewers ask questions. It adds a surreal nature to the opening, as though he suddenly manifested out of nowhere in this suburb. Whether or not this has any reason is up to the audience. The contrasts are both products of a lack of resources and real scene development. I use them to my advantage instead of simply calling off the film concept entirely because of a few errors. These are the plans I have for my set and character design, and I will finish up my storyboard to post it. Afterwards, I might ask friends or even peers for feedback.