Prop Exercise

Today in Media the class was split into groups and each group was given a prop by our class teacher. These included; a broken guitar, a poem, a telephone and a soft cuddly toy.

My group was given the cuddly toy, which was a penguin.

We had to come up with a storyline involving the penguin and then were allowed a double lesson (2 hours) to go out and film our plot that we had come up with. We had to be careful however, to make sure that our plot was suitable to be filmed around Sixth Form as this was the are we were allowed to shoot in.

In short, out plot consisted of the following:
A young girl had gone to the shop to buy a cuddly penguin. From then on she doted on the toy and took it everywhere with her. A time after she's brought him, whilst getting something out of her bag she drops him, without realising. The penguin then goes on an adventure by himself and eventually manages to get himself back to her via catching a lift on one of the science technician's trolleys which we managed to borrow. Our script definitely had a comedy element to it we hoped our peers would enjoy.

Here is our video below;

Outcome:

Today's lesson was enjoyable but also had a serious element to it. By doing this we were able to learn how props can be affective within our short films and that no matter what prop you are given you can make a good storyline out of it. It has made me consider what props I may use in my own film production, in terms of how I can use them to convey a particular message.