Many things have happened in the past 24 hours. Okay, well maybe not that many things but a couple of big things have happened. Was that evil of me? Who is to say.
One of the things that has happened is we have secured our filming date. On Sunday, the gang will be getting together to film this thing. This is already feeling reminiscent of our music video project. I expect that it should not take too long to film, maybe 3-4 hours. The scenes are not super demanding, but we have to ensure that everything is set in stone before we begin.
Speaking of set in stone, we have finalized the script! After two full class periods of going back and forth, we finally got it all written down and ready to go for filming. Writing the script was actually really fun. Getting to put down all the stage directions and the dialogue really helped me feel secure in our idea as it was all getting written out.
When we were righting the script (as pictured above) we did find that we had some (a lot) of disagreements, but compromise was definitely the key. In the end, I thin kwe came up with a great script that will work as an effective introduction for this film
And by the way, I do not think I ever shared the title of the film. In that case, without any further ado, meet Regression. The background for the name comes from a type of therapy called regression therapy which aims to help people remember past events that lie deep in their subconcious. The typical method for regression therapy is hypnosis (which freaks me out on a whole other level) and hypnosis. Also, regression therapy has two subcategories, those being age and past life. The age subsect deals with having a person regress back to an earlier age in their life, typically that of childhood. One the other hand, the past life sect deals with having a person regress back to their past life and picking out information from that other consciousness.
We chose to name our film after this type of therapy because of all the timey wimey stuff that goes along with it. Since our film has our protagonist constantly relieving her therapy session, it reminded us of how in regression therapy people are always trying to go back.
Now, let's get into the bulk of this post (sorry for yapping).
COLOR
Color is one of the most important things in any production. It can evoke a specific tone, give backstory, or even convey specific personality traits for any given character.
For our film, color will most definitely play a big role, especially when differentiating our protagonist from our other characters.
Our protagonist, Alice, is a big of an emo girl. She's dark and broody and we want her color palette to reflect that. I image that her clothing will definitely be exhibiting a lot of darker shades of blue and green and obviously with some black and maybe darker greys. Along with that, the actress who will be playing Alice has dark hair, which works perfectly with the emotions we are trying to evoke.
With one of our secondary characters, Dr. Schultz, we want to visually prove that she is fundamentally different from Alice. Therefore her clothing, hair, makeup and environment (as this is her office) will be filled with lighter colors. It is very fortunate that our location already has a lighter aura to it, which will work well to contrast how our main character is presented.
Speaking of the environment, like I said earlier, we want it to contrast Alice. But, a detail I thought could be pretty cool, is that the couch that Alice will be sitting on is also a dark color, which when compared to the setting seems out of place, and by extension that applies to Alice.
As for the overall color washing of the entire project, I have pictured it as having a blueish filter over it that works to dull down the colors.
The reason I want to use this color scheme is to show the monotonous nature of our protagonist's life, both before and after the time loop has started.
I obviously do not want it all to look super intentional, but I will know that all of the color choices are intentional and important even if they are subtle. It is super important to consider all of these aspects, because you never know what might give an audience clues about your story and you want to make sure you are always in control (the control freak in me is screaming).
And now for the movie quote of the day...
"So, this is how liberty dies, with thunderous applause." - Padmé Amidala, Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005)
Sources:
Kashyap, N. (2024, January 25). What is regression therapy?. Verywell Health. https://www.verywellhealth.com/regressive-hypnosis-therapy-5270347
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