Painful Pictures

    Well... here the storyboard for "Can You Help Me?" is. Now one may look at it and not at all understand it, but that is okay Julie and I do. I call this storyboard the "Trust The Process" the TTP for short. Drawing is not exactly a skill of mine, I will likely never have the honor to be an animator and that is okay. So just stay with me in trusting that the storyboard will come to life. 

TTP Storyboard:

TTP Storyboard Breakdown:

    To break it down the stick figure with two sides of the hair is Patti, the stick figure with one side of the hair is Meredith, and the stick figure that has hair that does not match either of those descriptions is the coworker. Also, I used color so that frames with a pink dot were the real room and frames with yellow were imagined. The scanner decided to only keep the second page in color so for the first page the first five frames are real room, then the next three are imagined and the eighth frame is real. The last frame of the opening is in the imagined bathroom

Filming Location:

    We will be filming "Can You Help Me?" in (drumroll please) my bedroom! The area we are filming as you see in the picture is very simple. We have a wall to work with so I am excited about this!! The bathroom on the other hand... while dark/great for the imagined room I will have to be very creative in props so it looks like an office bathroom.

Prop Update:

    Over this week (most likely Tuesday) I will be setting up the props we have. I want to see how my idea looks and get some opinions on whether our office looks realistic since it is my room. After receiving opinions I will go out and purchase any props I think we need. 

Props We Have:

Office-

Self-help books for the real shelves

Murder mysteries/dark covered books for the imaged shelves

A sign that says love in many different languages

Plant to go on the notes table

Dead roses to go on the notes table

Journals for notes

Pen/pencil for notes

A bed sheet to cover the chair

A pillow for the imagined chair

A pillow for the real chair

Office Bathroom-

Shower curtain (if the shower is shown in shot)

Other things you would see in a bathroom ex: Soap, Towels, etc.

Plants

Tissues

Moving Foward:
We have set filming dates for Saturday, March 12th, and Sunday, March 13th. This upcoming week will be spent creating our script, creating/buying any props we need, and finalizing costumes.