props list

Props are essential in the shoot in order to secure realism to make it not look like a film studio but like an old, abandoned room. Our main prop is the diary, it is so important because as the film is called 'Elizabeth's Diary' the diary has to be the main focus. We spent a great amount of time planning and designing the diary in order to make it look effective for the scene. We based the deign of the diary around images we found on the Internet. We decided to have a theme through the diary of the eyes being blacked out to add a sense of paranoia and her mental state. This progressed there being a running theme of crosses, so all the eyes in the diary had a cross drawn on them. This was to show her psychopathic but also to show that the diary was done by an individual as there is a reoccurring theme throughout to make it look more effective and believable. We designed the diary by ripping the images we found and sticking them into a diary and then writing in the diary with red and black ink.

We used other props to show that the room was hers. We bought dolls, teddy bears, magazines, a rope and shoes from charity shops. We then made them look as if she had tortured them, to show that she suffers from a mental condition. To do this, we cut the limbs off some of the animals, burned them and put fake blood on them. We also put black crosses over the eyes of the dolls and stuffed animals to continue the reoccurring theme from the diary.

Another prop we will use is a stool. We chose a plain white/grey stool. This is because is the right size to stand on before she is hung but also is quite dirty to match the dirty and bloody room it is in.