Film Date Schedule & Refining Story

For today's tasks, I scheduled with the orthodontist office the date for which I am to film. After, I created a game plan for what I am going to complete prior to the filming date to ensure that everything goes smoothly. I am going to notify my friends for people who can be actors and get the props in order. I am filming on Tuesday at 5 PM.

Thinking back to the story, one thing does not make sense. When the mother goes down to kiss her son on the forehead, she is able to see his face without any mouth and scarring. This is a problem. Typically, the mother would respond with a blood curdling scream, but this is not the angle that I want to go. Instead of tackily dodging this oversight. I can make this one of the conflicts. For the rest of the movie, it is only the person whose mouth is removed that is aware of this. This can be done by changing the script for when the boy tugs on his mother's skirt or shirt to which she responds with "Yes, dear?" The shot will give a POV of what the mother sees: her sons regular face. This may require changing the final scene with the bloodied mouth on the wall. I believe that this solution is a good one as it sets up the challenge the main characters will have to face in the future of the movie. 

I will be editing the storyboard to account for this as well as for the SFX prosthetic. After attempting to use the latex to create a prosthetic, I found that the foundation that I was using was not the right color. As well as this, the scarring effect of the prosthetic looked unnatural. These two reasons will have me change up the script a bit in order to make the scene not reveal the face of the boy, but instead, have more scenes showing the gory process that the boy underwent. 

For the story, I want to change it so that the audience gets to see the process, but the gore is not revealed, leading the effect of the dentists' practices be left up to the imagination of the viewers. As well as this, it will have lots of auditory cues for what the tools are doing to the boy. The horror movie which I am taking much of my inspiration for this change is The Dentist from 1996. This film used lots of different techniques with sound in order to create an unnerving feeling. Tools that are used in the film are pliers, razor blades, mirrors, scalpels, and needles to instill fear in the squeamish. Not only this, but with dramatic instrumental music, Foley sound effects for sounds such as inserting a needle or twisting a tooth out, it adds to the tone of scenes. I will be using similar techniques as used here.

This script utilizes this new knowledge that I have and will be much easier to produce. Furthermore, I can have more realistic looking scenes. In the next post, I will be continuing to finish the preproduction parts and will be continuing to revise the script and storyboard.