Pre-production is still an on-going progress. Alexa and I have decided to tweak some things to our story to make it flow a little bit. Instead of Raven only having parts in the beginning and end of the film, we decided to add her in for some small parts in between. Finn, the main character, begins noticing Raven's presence. She's always just lingering around either him or Scarlett. He questions it, but not really to the point where he becomes suspicious. He doesn't realize anything until the end of the film. We added that bit due to Mr. Lemos' comment and it made sense to both Alexa and me.
I really liked a suggestion that Alexa gave. She said that when Finn is looking around the room, searching for Scarlett, right before he gets called up to the office, Raven should be sitting in Scarlett's seat. It foreshadows a connection between Raven and Scarlett. It also kind of puts the girls side-by-side as deceiving, sneaky girls.
While trying to write our script, Alexa and I have already started trying to think of ways we would shoot the film. We want to be able to show paranoia, entrapment, and claustophobia through our shots. Essentially, we're already kind of coming up with a shot list, but not really.
For example, in the scene where Scarlett hands Finn the bag of "fun," I told Alexa that we could put a paper bag around the camera lens and film Finn that way. It's going to frame the whole shot and it forces Finn to look trapped withing that bag.
Overall, there really is no issue working with Alexa. In fact, working with her is really fun. We have yet to have any disagreements in anything about the film. I think we're both pretty much on the same page about how we want this film to turn out and that is really to our advantage. We have the same goals for this project.
