INT. MY HOUSE - DAY

After reviewing my previous blog post, I realized I never actually showed the locations I'll be filming in for my opening. For the sake of convenience, I made the choice to have the story open in my house. This would mean that I wouldn't need to travel anywhere far and waste gas for only a couple shots. (Saving the environment one step at a time!) Anywho, the very beginning of my opening was going to take place in the living room/dining room. Here's the downstairs area:

For this first sequence I would only need to mess around with the camera and lighting to achieve the look I want for my opening, so I don't believe filming the first half should be too challenging for me. Another thing about using my house as the setting for my opening is that my house has a lot of large windows that let in natural light. Thus, I would only need to use 3-point lighting if I want a particular tone to a particular shot, like creating more shadows for a dramatic look or filling the subject's face with some more light. Following the sequence downstairs is the bedroom scene and I have a completely blank canvas with our current guest bedroom upstairs:

This used to be my sister's room, but we don't use it often so I can completely rearrange the furniture and decorate it to my liking. At first, I was considering using my own room for my opening, but it would've been more of a hassle to avoid the decorations I already have in my room. To reference the psychological fact from my last post, my room is very Alessia and not Iris, so I would need to dismantle my room for it to look the way I envisioned it. I plan to put up the playbill-garland decoration on the blank wall to the left, bring in some of my vinyl to put beside the nightstand, and rearrange the bed itself to get that obstructed shot I wanted. I was thinking about adding another layer to the story by getting cardboard boxes from Home Depot and just labeling them and scattering them to make it seem like she had just moved in. As of now, I'm actually pretty set on adding that to the mise-en-scene for the bedroom because my guest bedroom seems pretty empty as is, so it wouldn't seem so out of place for it to seem a little empty after a move. 


Now that we have the storyboard and location scouting out of the way, my pre-production journey seems to be going smoothly so far! Of all the steps I needed to complete for my opening, I was most worried about how pre-production and planning would go because the hardest part is actually solidifying your storyline. I still want to research those lighting techniques and search for cinematography inspiration, so this time I'll actually be able to share my thought process in my upcoming post about that!