Progress of my film

Here are updates on the progress of the elements of my film!

Mise-en-scene- We have three major filming locations: a college, a restaurant, and Brody's home. For the college, we will be using our high school. For the restaurant, we will visit a local restaurant and film in the outdoor seating section. As for the home, we will use parts of my home and parts of my partner Ainsley's home to film. We will film so that the rooms in our houses look like one big house because certain elements of each of our houses fit how we envision Brody's house.


Cinematography- We chose to have the scenes in Brody's house with dark lighting with dull lenses to create eeriness and depression. The beginning scenes with Dexter and Brooke are supposed to be magical to show the two in love, so we will use a lot of light and bright lenses.

Editing- For editing, we have planned transition shots, tracking shots, close-up shots, medium shots, and wide shots. My favorite transition shot is when our main character Brooke closes her eyes after being drugged, she will close her eyes. We do a close-up of her eyes and the next scene is her opening her eyes after regaining consciousness in a new location.

Sound- We have created our script with dialogue. Three characters- Brooke, Brody, and Dexter- all have speaking parts. As for music, we have eerie and ominous music planned for the scenes with Brody and Dexter in his house. For the scenes with Dexter and Brooke at the beginning, we have upbeat, enchanting music to create magic between the two lovers.

Challenges- We are struggling to find male actors to play Brody and Dexter. We have planned to use girls but use costumes and props to portray them as boys.  The girls will wear hoodies to cover their hair and feminine appearance.


Inspiration- Our main inspiration for the film was Secret Obsession, where the main protagonist loses her memory and is conned into believing a stranger is her husband. We added our own twists to this concept and we hope the viewers enjoy our fresh interpretation of the concept!



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