Props

So having done a prop list, I went out and took some photos of some of the things we needed, which would be the main essentials in the shooting. These were just photo's that I took for personal use so I knew what we would be using and I could later reference back to them if I needed them.

As you can see, below are the glasses that we are planning on using, I think that using these will work really well because linking in with the actual Harry Potter he has circular glasses and making these a prop really fits in with the theme. As we borrowed these from our teacher, I am grateful he was able to lend us these to use for our shooting.

Not only that, but we also needed a wand for the shoot, this was the main prop in the entire piece and luckily I am a Harry Potter fan and I have the Elder Wand. So I brought this in from home and I used this. I think the fact we are using a replica wand really emphasises the fact that this relates to Harry Potter and we can use this and the box works well to add some character in our short instead of just having the wand out of the box.

Finally, we needed some sort of book for our main character to read as this was where he would find the spells. As for finding a wizardry book for dummies there was one online but we didn't buy it as there was no budget for this shoot and therefore we compensated by creating a book cover instead. We found another dummy book that was in the college and created a title that said 'Wizardry' this was then covered over the original title and the 'for Dummies' was left in place. This worked well as just a cover to be seen and read by our audience when they watch the short. Not only that but we created a spells page so that when we wanted to have an extreme close-up of the wand going down the page looking at the spells there would be a list of possibility's. This page that was created was then placed on the inside of the page and I think that it works well as it looks old and the spells are large so can be read easily.


I think that all of these props will work really well in our shooting. I feel that these props really work well because they represent what we are trying to perceive in out short.