prop creation + changes!

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In the world of filmmaking props also play the role of bringing stories to life. Some props are meticulously done from scratch and others find their origins in unexpected places like the trash. Yes, trash can be transformed into props with creativity. In my case I don't have to do much with it since I just need the trash, to look like trash. 

I need to start recording this weekend, but one of the hardest things for now is planning when we are going to record since it has to be at night, my mom (who is the main character) needs to have free time and ideally no one else should be at the house. Those three things are complicating a lot my schedule because the times where I could record was because my mom left the house with my brother to hangout with her friends.  She did promise that this weekend she was going to stay home with my to record it and I really hope she doesn't forget.

On the other hand, back to props, I've been asking my family to put their "clean" trash and office paper works that they don't need in a separate box, so when I start recording we already have a lot of trash to work with. The rest of the props are cups, that I already own, and the pizza that we will order that day. 

If my mom does stay home on Saturday I will hopefully record some of it that day, but since everything I use in the film has to be mine, i've been thinking: what am i going to put in the TV? How am I going to do it ? I could maybe use the ADELINE X music video my classmates and I did a couple weeks ago or I can make it from scratch.  Analyzing more how I was going to do it, I remembered that if I use the music video me and my classmates did, I would need Lorde to let me use her sound, which is not happening. 

For what's shown in the Tv at first, I might do a quick "documentary" of nature to put behind or record my little brother playing with his friends to mimic a Tv show and for the News and warning parts,  I asked my sister if she wanted to be my journalist and she said yes! I will put her behind my Tv, that is going to be reproducing a green screen video, and I will make her look exactly like a TV journalist. Later I'll add the background, sound effects, and the emergency screen.