Materialistic......Literally

Bam! I have figured out the supplies I need for my project to succeed.I'm going to actually go out and get them next week but at least I know what I need to get and an estimate of how much everything will cost. 

I decided that I'm going to need, first of all, a type of trolley to move the camera without shaky hand movement. For this, I'm going to go to either A.C. Moore, which is the closest craft store, and buy a plank of wood and a set of four wheels to build a small car-like simple object to pull along with some string, or Toys R' Us, which is the biggest toy store around, and just buy an actual truck and place the camera there. 

I want a straight camera that doesn't shake because I don't think that this film would be well-made with a hand-held camera movement. Since the camera will be moving everywhere around a bedroom, I believe that the trolly movement is the best to portray the images I want. The trolley will allow for the audience to get a still image of what is meant to be portrayed, it will allow the pauses by each picture to be subtle and clean, and it will also give the desired progressive change from organized to messy.

Next, I'm going to print out pictures of Megan and I in order to make a sort of "opening credits" type of thing. The pictures are going to be laid out on the floor along with tissues to exemplify the sadness and also give faces to the people in the movie, as well as to infer to who the voice that is leaving the voicemails belongs to. I have chosen to do this because I think it is a great way to give names to the actors, display the faces before the actual reveal of the main character, and also provide with a fun sequence before the storyline is introduced.

I estimate that the whole project should cost around $15-$20 for all of the supplies. Now, as I am writing this, I realize I still have yet to formally offer the role to my friend Megan, so that's next on my to-do list. I will blog back after I do that, but, for now, thanks for reading! 

-EC

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