Production wrapped up: Costumes PP#14
Welp, on the 5th of March, shooting for my film opening commenced. It was a hot Saturday afternoon when I proceeded to head over to my friend's house to officially start filming. But before doing so, I needed some supplies. Like I mentioned in some of my previous blog posts, the main things I needed were cardboard and the DnD materials.
The helmet seemed nice and paired with the torso, it really looked awesome! We also paired it with a PLASTIC sword since, y'know, the knight needs some weapons!
So we got one costume down, and fortunately, my friend had a ninja costume, which we managed to use for the other character. And I thought that not only would it fit with the "old-timey" vibe that would go with the knight. But I decided to pair the ninja costume with a TOY katana that my friend also had. This katana was not real and was kept in the sheath throughout all of the filming.
Overall the pre-production worked nice, as we got the costumes down right away, which was a perfect lead-in towards the actual filming, which I'll talk about next. David was a really nice touch towards the actual production of the costumes. Without him, this would've taken me a little bit longer. The rest of the actors actually haven't arrived yet, but once the costumes were done, that's when I'd start filming.
So I managed to make my way to David's house, but before any actual filming could start, I needed to actually make the cardboard armor!
I needed to make the base of the armor, like the torso/chest piece. This part was a no-brainer since it really isn't hard to make a piece like this, and it was pretty easy to just eye-ball it. It was really just essentially cutting a hole in a center of a folding piece of cardboard for the head, and making the shoulders rounded out to make it rest on the shoulders. 
The pictures above show the process of actually making the cardboard since we just started off with regular pieces of cardboard, but we managed to cut it into pieces that could resemble a torso. Then after that, we decided to decorate it a little bit for some pizzazz!
After the torso came to the helmet. This is when I leaned towards the internet for some help since the helmet was going to be more intricate. But I managed to find a website to help give me some inspiration and created one with ducktape, cardboard, and staples. I wanted to make it look like a knight helmet, yet still make it look a little rough around the edges to really give it that LARP vibe. The helmet seemed nice and paired with the torso, it really looked awesome! We also paired it with a PLASTIC sword since, y'know, the knight needs some weapons!
So we got one costume down, and fortunately, my friend had a ninja costume, which we managed to use for the other character. And I thought that not only would it fit with the "old-timey" vibe that would go with the knight. But I decided to pair the ninja costume with a TOY katana that my friend also had. This katana was not real and was kept in the sheath throughout all of the filming.
Overall the pre-production worked nice, as we got the costumes down right away, which was a perfect lead-in towards the actual filming, which I'll talk about next. David was a really nice touch towards the actual production of the costumes. Without him, this would've taken me a little bit longer. The rest of the actors actually haven't arrived yet, but once the costumes were done, that's when I'd start filming.
-Noa
Sources!
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/506232814343057859/
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