Senior Assassin Dilemma

I wanted to start this post with gratitude. I am extremely grateful for my actors and for them having a flexible schedule for filming days. My one problem was that the senior assassin had begun during my filming stage...and since both of my actors were seniors, I definitely knew that it would be a challenge.

What is a senior assassin? 

Senior Assassin is a duo-based elimination game where players (in teams of two) have to attempt to "eliminate" their assigned targets using manually loadable water guns while, of course, also avoiding elimination themselves. Each team is given their targets location, which is refreshed every 10 minutes. Knowing that my actors where ub constant danger unless holding the baby, pushed me to come up with a solution. 

The baby, which had to be 12 in, was the game's safety device. Your assassin could not get you if you had a baby. Therefore, if I wanted to guarantee that my actor was safe, I had to kind of evolve my story. As we know by now, I had wanted to use the pair of yellow rainboots to symbolize the different stages that the main character goes through...innocence, challenge, death. And because of that, I wanted to use the blood to represent death, and dirt/grime to represent the character going through challenges. I wanted to use the boots as a clean canvas. But of course, we can also infer that it was a hard item to locate...I went to at least 3 thrift stores, and they did not have anything that caught my eye. Therefore, to guarantee my friend's safety and use something easier to find, I will replace the rainboots with a plastic baby doll from Walmart!