Final Assignment: Props

Raemarie ( Sorry Dr Julian, I am used to calling her Rae. And from this post onwards, she would be Rae ) and Zhiyun went to buy some props for our shoot on tomorrow.

I was in charge of making sure that we get the room and equipment for the actual shoot. I booked the equipment from the Media Development Laboratory 3 days ago and got permission to use the Playroom on Saturday for a whole day video shoot. The others made sure that everything else is in order and that the cast will turn up on the day itself.

Today, I had to make the props while Rae and Zhiyun did a recording for the cast to refer to while we film them tomorrow. After the recording is done Zhiyun and Rae will be back with me to do the props too. We had to make a few things in order not to spend too much money on the props.

We bought clown's noses and paint to colour it orange like we wanted it. The noses were originally red ( due to the fact that most clowns have red noses ) . The main reason behind the noses was that we wanted something that would identify our cast as NUS ambassadors, or rather, students of NUS rather than normal people. We considered orange or blue shirts, but it was all to common. The idea of using an orange nose surfaced and we decided to use it because besides acting as an identity for NUS students, it also adds on to one of the points that we want to convey; NUS's students are actually very fun !

Besides the noses, we printed out and made a pile of flags to use as props in the video. The whole process of making props was tiring and time consuming. I do believe this would be worth it after the actual video comes out.

It seems like we are using more and more time. And I have lesser and lesser time to blog.

Well, I'm looking forward to the video shoot!