The little toy sword that she finds under her bed to play fight with her make shift monster. I have made this out of recycled cardboard.

Instead of making the make-shift monster out of random items in her room such as; a chair, books, toys etc… I decided to make it out of small storage cardboard boxes instead. This way she can easily draw on a monster and it changes the story a bit and gives it more meaning in the sense that she has moved into a new place and is ready for a new adventure and is too excited to sleep as she is eager to explore.

I have put labels of different areas of the house on the boxes too, whilst drawing on the other side of them a monster for her to play with. This is a quick indication and throwback to our childhood before technology, because children often loved to play with boxes as they could imagine them being anything and everything. making them into all sorts of random creations; a rocket or space ship, a boat, a vehicle or in this case, a terrifying monster.

I have also made some books to place on top of her dresser to add more to her room. More so for when the actual monster comes into the film, it will be able to ruin or destruct more of the room and make more of a mess. Thus making its presence more known.

The puppet for my main character is now complete.

COSTUME:

For the costume i was originally going to use a much rougher piece of fabric, however it proved to be too difficult to sew into clothing for the puppet and kept unravelling, thus why i opted for a different, softer material – a fitted bed sheet. I also had issues with the sewing machine, therefore had to sew everything by hand, which in turn took a while to complete.

The costume for this character is a pair of PJs that I had made with a light blue fitted bed sheet. I decided to leave it as one of those buttoned up PJs incase any of the limbs fall off or break apart, it would be easy to repair without damaging any other part of the puppet.

HAIR

For the hair I had unwinded some black wool and attached each piece bit by bit using strong PVA glue.

FACE

The eyes and mouth will be done using a library so that I am able to control her emotions, also by using eyelids and eyebrows.

HANDS

I have finally attached the hands with a glue gun and have painted them to match the tone of the characters felt I used.

FEET

For the feet I used a huge blob of miliput to help balance the character.

This film is set in the middle of the night, therefore the lighting would be fairly dark. It is also set in the winter season.

For the outside and forest scene, I have got a “snow blanket” to cover the floor and to cut holes for where the “trees” would be placed.

Also, for when my character jumps out the window in an attempt to escape she will fall onto a pile of fake snow that is usually used for decorative purposes.

I have used cardboard for the bark and trunk of the trees that will be used across the forest, and i have ripped up the first layer to display the rigged layer of cardboard to make it appear more accurate to that of a tree trunk.

For the walls for the bedroom I had used MDF wood and cut them down to size. I had also cut out holes for where the door and window would be. I used coffee stick stirrers as door frames and window frames.

I had painted the walls purple as a child’s room, and because i wanted to keep the colour scheme of this film on the cool side of the colour wheel – sticking to purples and blues – hence her blue PJs too.

For the door I used foam boards and had painted them brown. For the doorknob I used miliput and formed it on a pin and painted it gold and used a hot glue gun to glue it to the door. As there is a part of the film, a close up scene where the main characters hands almost reach the door knob to escape, however she gets pulled back by the monster.

I have finalised the monster claws although i have yet to figure out what to attach them to whilst filming and animating. I had painted over the miliput with black paint and with dark red nail varnish as I wanted the claws to appear very sharp and shiny. I also added some brown paint to the black wool on the hands as I didn’t want the monster to completely camouflage into the darkness of the background.