As the second part of prep work for my drama project - The Mentalist - Flame Red scene, I have divided my one - approx. 4. min scene into a total of five scenes, to make it more organized and easier to get around to shoot. I have sketched down the shots for the different scenes, to make sure we keep track of what  has been shot, and what has not. As well as fo the most important/special shots that I need to make sure we remember on shooting day.

As a part of the preparation for the drama "The Mentalist" I am directing, I have made sure that all paperwork, as well as other preparations like ordering and locating props, have been done. The script is obtained from the original series and then altered to match the directorial style I wish to achieve. I have changed locations, some action descriptions and also altered one-two lines of dialogue, to make it more natural and not sounding as formal as it did in the original script.


                  

I have chosen, after carefully thinking through, to probably leave out the few short seconds long shots of the female and manly cop characters. As these short-cut to´s does not really affect the whole scene in another way than raising awareness of whats going on. Which I feel like I can achieve without having to unnecessarily cut to surprised faces. I will,perhaps shoot the clips, but I might leave them out in the edit. All depending on whether or not I feel like they give anything to the scene.
All paperwork is ready and finished, the only thing left is to print out and get signatures, hand out and keep track of the information. Making sure that all consent forms and contracts get signed and taken care of. Kept in a safe place and not lost on shooting day, or after.

Decisions have been reached a few weeks ago, where these guys were the ones picked out to play the roles of Patrick Jane, Tommy Olds and Kimball Choo in "The Mentalist" drama-scene I am directing.

Because it was quite a few interested, I decided to have an audition round a couple of weeks ago. Where all the interested actors sent an audition tape on email. After looking through them all,  I carefully chose the top two for each role, before I made a final decision on who would get which part.   Here are the results, and I have also made sure that the actors have a 100% commitment to the project, to prevent drop-outs unless it´s an important reason, like healt issues or loss in family etc.


PATRICK JANE: 

The Mentalist, main character - Patrick Jane (in the original series played by Simon Baker) is a former psychic whose wife and daughter are murdered by the famed serial killer known only as Red John. After the horrific crime is discovered, Jane dedicates his life to hunting down and capturing Red John.

Introduction:
- Pantone // Grey:
The introduction will consist of if I´m successful in getting hold of a couple of grey Pantone palettes, a focus pull or a sort of camera movement between these two-three palettes. This is to establish the overall theme/context with the title of my portrait.

Idea: 
My idea is based around four main elements that in some way represent me or what I like.

- Milk bath - White & Pink: 
To represent purity and a sort of veil. As to how we all sometimes can hide our feelings and family lives from the people around us and the world in itself behind a veil. I am not sure whether I will be using the footage of the milk bath or the pink. Probably the pink, because it is my favourite colour and I would like to include it as an aspect in my film. I might also include footage of the pink colour drops falling into the white milk bath. To represent creativity and expressionism.

- Projector material - Glitter & Textures
In this section, I will be shooting different textures outside from the city environment, like concrete, metal rails, tarmac, tunnel walls, the sky, clouds, liquid glitter etc. To show the vast textures of life that surround us every day. As well as this can be linked up to how we can go through different periods and stages of growth in our lives. + the fact that I love sparkling stuff, like glitter.

- Projector & Polaroid pictures: 
Here I will be projecting these different textures with a projector onto myself against a white wall, as well as seated on my bed in my room. The reason I have chosen to do it like this is because I wanted that projector effect. As well as projecting it onto me, it throws these different textures onto me as a person. I will perhaps include glitter in these shots, as to adding a bit of glitter on my face.

I will also be doing a couple shots f my polaroid pictures attached on brown nature string, to give an insight into my life as with friends and family.

- Magazine faces
Inspired by a picture I found online, I will be using different magazine face, cut-outs from fashion magazines, a photoshop magazine and a printed out picture of a tiger. Basically, I found this idea to be very cool, as well as it can show how we all have different roles in life. We have one role with friends, one with family, one when were with our parents, teachers, at work and so on. It can also be drawn parallels towards how society wants you to be, how to dress, do your makeup etc. The other more creative pictures, painting portrait and tiger I am using is to express my creative sides as well as the need to defence my private life and my loved ones, and the rawness that a tiger represents. As to the rawness, feelings have.


These pictures are to show the prep-work I have done to test out how some of the elements will work on shooting day.  I tried out colouring the mixture of water and milk in my sink, with pink food colouring  to see if I could achieve the result I wanted to. It turned out exactly as I had pictured, and I am pleased with the result.

I have also prepared the glitter mixture for shooting day by mixing glitter with clear glue. I chose to mix two different batches, one with silver and some blue to give it contrast and more texture. And one with pink, where I also mixed in some gold and purple to make it less sheer and give it some more depth. Again, pink because pink is my favourite colour.