Week VI

The start of this week my group and I met to script read together. We each took a character from the script and went through it together. This was very helpful, leading to us finding quite a few mistakes made within the script- such as spelling errors, and character name mix ups. After we read the script together we then started thinking about character development, because at this point students had no personality traits or description, unlike the janitor. Therefore, we began to think about the personality of each student within our story. This will prove to be very useful when it comes time for us to act.

Later that day, I went home and made several corrections to the script.

Towards the end of the week one of the group members and I went shopping in search of props. We had the script, and highlighted everything from that we needed, and additionally added costumes to the prop list. We managed to buy most of the items on the prop list- some examples being:
rope, tool belt, fake blood, moustache prop, and cleaning products.
However, there were a few items we were unable to find, so we shopped online later that day, ordering the rest next week. A boiler suit was probably the most expensive prop for our film, but we were willing for this, as it is the most important prop in our production, being the janitors costume. We were unable to find a boiler suit in the shops, and so have ordered this for next week.

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