Semiotics: Equipment, Props and Make Up For Filming

Equipment and Props that we are using in our first scene production are:

- Fake Blood
- Knives
- Oil Can
- Water
- Rope
- Chair
- Tripod
- Clothing that we are providing for the main character Vicky Thurston
- Camera for filming

Most of these props that are going to be used, were found round our houses as normal day to day supplies that we all had. However we had to go out and buy fake the blood from a shop called; 'Harlequins' so that our opening scene would be more visually believable.

Some of the scenes that our main actress will be shooting involves getting incredibly dirty. This is because a lot of dirt, water, fake blood and even the possibility of tearing some of her clothes will be used in our shots to create a more visually effective opening scene. We understood that it was too much to ask our actress to supply these clothes that we intentionally are going to ruin and therefore we measured Vicky, taking down all her sizes, went to a cheap clothes shop called; 'George' a subsidiary company of ASDA and bought some plain tops and a pair of trousers for Vicky to wear during filming.

The Make Up will be applied by a professional/qualified media make up artist, who happened to be a grup members mother (Hayden Simmons). My mother happily volunteered to do all the media makeup, consisting of; scars, cuts, burns, bruises and wounds. We felt this was a huge advantage for our group because we don't have the funds or technology available in order to produce the special effects that we needed in order to compare with existing media products out there with the same genre. Therefore this will visually improve our shots, creating a more realistic, believable opening scene for an audience that we will be able to relate to existing media products out there.