Pre-production: Props

There are only a few props we see in this short film and a majority of them are those which are pieces of iconography conventional of the sci-fi genre. Firstly a backpack will be used in which will act as a bag for the characters to carry their supplies in and a place to store collected resources such as food. There is writing on the bag but the shots I intend to use, which have the bag within shot, will all be medium/long shots so the writing and icon won't be visible. I also chose this backpack because of how the colour ties in with this idea of camouflage which is the main intention of characters who are in hiding in apocalyptic sci-fi films.

Secondly, I've acquired a machete, owned and managed by an expert who will be on site when we use the weapon. A convention of apocalyptic films is that they use weapons and particularly for this sub-genre, they use blades. Therefore it is my intention that in using the weapon, I will be conforming to the conventions of apocalyptic sci-fi films, much like what I'm doing in using the backpack.

Thirdly, Alicia is seen at the start of the short film holding a crumpled photograph of her family. This is the third and final prop we see. By using this the audience should get the reading that the people in the photo were Alicia's family and that by the way she looks on forlornly, they are either deceased, missing or swept up with psychotic pandemic.