Dress to Impress + Bonus

    We just finished filming a couple hours ago... and let me tell you, it was spectacular! One of my favorites, if not my favorite thing I have filmed so far this year. The well thought out sets, lighting, costumes, script and just about everything helped put our thoughts together to create out best possible outcome. Today I will discuss our use of props and costuming to create the full effect of our characters and the setting around them. 

Costumes:

    My character was somewhat easy to portray through costuming. We wanted for her to be seen as "perfect" which is where the nice white blouse came in, also showing professionalism. I was lucky to have a mom who not only has 1, 2, or 3, but 8 white blouses in her wardrobe. So yes, a lot of options. I was able to settle on a pretty long sleeve with a V-neck which was beautiful. I ended the costume with a nice pair of plain jeans. 

    The props I used/was associated with was my clipboard, glasses, and alarm clock. The clipboard was used just to give the therapist a more professional feel, where we even wrote down some notes about Alices character on the paper on the clipboard. The glasses also were also just used for a more aesthetical look for the therapist, with no real practical use (when I put them on, they made me blind). The alarm clock... oh let me tell you... TRAUMA. I brought my physical alarm clock to use as a timer for the session, and whenever the alarm went off, flashbacks of the noise from the tired school mornings all throughout the week. And we shot with that alarm, MANY times. The scene we decided to shoot with required perfect timing, and luckily it didn't take us too many times, but I heard definitely that clock go off more times than I wanted to. (Dr. Schultz, me! ---> )

    Maiya's character, Alice, has a grungy look to her, and although we didn't have a top to her that exactly fir the color scene of Alice, it still gave the exact same feeling. She wore a long sleeve white shirt with a graphic design on it which gave the emo/grungy feeling to her character. She wore her hair up in a very messy ponytail just to emphasize her lack of trying. Also, I guess it was lucky that our actress Maiya already had some eyebags? It does fit the character, so I'd assume that's a positive.

As for props, we didn't use too much for this character, only her cell phone. But the cell phone does play an important part of her role, demonstrating her easily distracted nature. The phone also gives insights to the rest of the plot of the movie, trying to figure out how the time loop works, and who is on the other side of the unknown caller ID.

(<--- Alice Jones (yes finally a last name), Maiya!)

 

     Last but not least is T. Jacobs. Although there isn't much for his character, him being an intern for the office, he still holds an important role for the reoccurrence of specific scenes. Jacobs wears a white tee and brown pants, giving him a plain look as a background character and intern feeling to him. His probs only consist of some films he is meaning to give Dr. Schultz, when he interrupts he twos therapy session.

(T. Jacobs, Max! --->)

Bonus:

    After all this, ill finally release our finished script: