#21 Prop Me
I've gone over where our props were bought from, I think this is all pretty clear by now. However there was a lot of set up for our little video, all of the props were notably unready for usage when first bought. We had to destroy the photo frame and print out a photo of me, we had to make a bunch of fake glass out of plastic probably shaving it down and making it look glassy, we also had to powder up the mirrors to the point that they look 'used', and of course we had to change the batteries in this little alarm. Now the first thing we did was the frame, we removed the glass pane obviously, we just wanted to bend it, the metal wasn't strong and it eventually snap in half, but it turned out fine cause if anything it only added to the look. We needed a photo but were struggling with the printer since we had to get the dimensions right, it turned out printing way too small but if anything it added to the look of this total loser who can't get anything right so we kept it, we also added comedically placed tape to really sell the look. When we were filming the scene with fake blood we placed a bit in the frame to make it seem like the blood spread a bit and it wound up looking very raw and interesting, I like it a lot.
The plastic didn't turn out great, when we were breaking it Alejandro tried standing on it hoping it would shatter and it did nothing, and then i placed my heel on top of it because heels do that for whatever reason, funny story I know. We tried shaving all of the plastic shards but it really didn't do much and we also had to deal with corner pieces that had a small dent and did not look like glass in any way, it looked fine and with the way we shot it I don't think It will be a problem. We didn't have flour so we wound up using NOT artificial sweetener like I was planning on using. but baking soda, and yeah it looked great. The mirrors looked like they were covered in cocaine, it was great, It's funny to think that if I didn't have the thought of using sweetener from watching a bad movie, this project would be entirely different. The radio worked fine, half way through recording we realized that we could hear the radio playing music which was surprising, I had to launch the radio off of my desk a bunch and it somehow survived, Nina has it now.