The first thing to do when planning the production design of your sequence, "the look" of the film, is to work out every property (prop) and piece of set dressing you will need. The first stage is to "line the script". This means going through the script with different coloured highlighter pens and highlighting every important piece of wardrobe or costume, props, which includes all objects characters interact with and any elements that you'll need to "dress" the set. These might be things you need to add character and detail, such as posters or signs, as well as elements needed to hide or camouflage inappropriate fittings and fixtures, i.e. hanging baskets or plant pots to hide satellite dishes and plug sockets in period dramas.
Go through your script and highlight any instances where props, etc are mentioned explicitly, as in this extract from one group's script:
In other cases, re-reading the script might make you see new situations in which the addition of a specific prop or piece of set design might help the viewer understand what's going on more quickly, as with this extract from a different group's script:
When you have done that, write up the results in a table on your blog as follows:
