Samuel Walpole Film and TV Blog

Prop/Costume List For our production we didn’t need a lot of Props or Costuming as it was only a small piece. Costume and Prop Items White Theatre Masks – these will be used to show that all of the characters aren’t individual.   Paintbrush – This is used as representation of becoming individual.  All Black Clothing – To again represent that everyone is the same.  Various Colour Paints – To show what’s being done to create individuality.

Initial Ideas and Mood Board Ideas: We had plenty ideas for a Depict Movie, we'd realised that most of the films had deep undertones talking about society and the world around us. We found a quote whilst looking for inspiration that said, 'Lost in a Sea of Nameless Faces'. We felt that it had a lot of meaning behind it, it showed what loneliness was like and how our society is constantly shifting and changing so we decided to reflect that. Very quickly we knew we'd wanted masks, so we could hide faces and thus make them 'nameless'. We wanted to show how society follows people, it follows every change they make and that can be hard. We knew from this that our end result was to get everyone to remove their masks and show us who they were and it could tell us a little about how individual we all are.  Mood Board: A connotation of hiding away from being yourself. Trying to change and be different from society.                 ...

Walk   by Edwin Mingard  The simple description for Walk is 'a young woman leaves her friends and heads into the city at night'. I feel that this description is lackluster, I see a vivid short-film that personifies the city, the underground train station and also skyscrapers. It makes you look at things in a completely different way. The everyday clothing and ambient lighting makes the film even more relatable, the constant change of perspective gives a better outlook on what's happening. Although, it’s not always clear. Sometimes it's fairly confusing. The film follows a girl, she seems fairly anxious at a dinner party with friends so decides to leave. She ventures to the tube station which is closed meaning she has to walk her way home. She constantly questions 'what is this place?' a sort of metaphor for her travels and her life. She's questioning why she’s at that place in life. She’s talking to herself, this was really smart as it shows that s...