Filming: Props

Perhaps the most significant of all the props that we are using in our piece is the bench. This is what our entire narrative revolves around and therefore plays a key part in the story. We will be using the bench that is already in my front garden (where the scene will be filmed), but we will be re-positioning it so that it is in front of the house. For this scene we will also get our actors to wear black hoodies in order for them to appear more mysterious and to introduce an ominous element into the beginning of the film.

Later in the film there will be scene in which Character 1 is looking into a mirror in a distressed manor. We will be filing this scene in my bathroom and therefore will be using my bathroom mirror as the key prop in this scene.
In the one of the happier memories we will be filming a scene of the girls taking a selfie and therefore will use either mine or Lucy's iphone as a prop in this scene.

We will also need blankets and pillows in some of the happy memories in order to create the sense of a comfortable and happy atmosphere.
And finally we will need to use two books as props for the scene in which the two characters are lying on the floor reading together. The books that we have decided to use are ' The Shock of the Fall' by Nathan Filer, which explores grief and madness, and 'A Hundred Pieces of Me' by Lucy Dillon, which explore memory and letting go of the past. Therefore, if these books are recognised by the audience, it will give them a sense of what are narrative is.