Preliminary Task - Evaluation

Preliminary Task Film - Hidden Secrets

Main Task - Evaluation

Main Task- Finial Film - The Shot

Main Task- Post Production - Dairy Entry

Everything is going really well and almost finished, just the sound of the gun on the video is all that is left to do, and my evaluation is almost finished, I have just completed my write up of my evaluation and i am just finishing off my editing of my Pod-cast.

Main Task - Post Production- Evaluation

Media Evaluation for the SHOT

Main Task- Post Production - Dairy Entry

We are half way through editting now and its coming alone really well. We have been choose the music today and seeing which fits with the film best. Also the class have watched our film and gave us feed back on it such as that some of the clips needed more editting. the sound needed fading but apart from these they said we had a good story line, the costumes where really good and also the lighting throughout the film was really good. This has came in useful when we have been editting and we have taken all advise into concern

Main Task - Post Production - First Edit

Main Task - Research

I have been researching into film noir and may of the film noirs use shadows i like th effect of this that it makes the film seem  more mysterious. Here is some pictures of shadows that are used in film noirs and a film opening that uses it.

In this clip in the first 30 seconds a shadow is created which makes the scene more mysterious.

The lighting is a major part of film noir films as they can change the tone of the scene. Here is some pictures from my lighting work shop which shows how it can change the tone of the scene from where you place the light.

Femme fatale is always glamorous i researched this  was so i knew how to dress and do the make-up for the femme fatale in my media production. Here is some pictures of some femme fatales hair, make-up and dress.

Main Task - Post Production - Dairy Entry

Yesterday me and lauren filmed we had some issues such as our location area was unavailable as the owner pulled out close to filming time, lucky we had a back up location which we used. Also we had a problem with actors as one pulled out a day before filming but was easily sorted as we had someone else for our backup. Since filming everything has been fine apart form a couple of the clips dont have any sound, we believe this is because the micophone wasnt turned on, however we are going to get the actors to film there voice and place them on top of the clips to make it seems as if its in the clip. Today we have started editting but cutting out audio which isnt needed and making the clips black and white. I am happy with everything so far in post production and hope this carries on.

Target Audience Research- Conclusion

Gender:                                                                     

Age:

Class:

How often do you watch film noir?

What Sub- genres are you most likely to watch?

Are you more likey to watch a film because of an actor that will star in it?

Main Task - Character Bios

Claus
Claus is a 26 year old  american that is a assassin that he works for a powerful, evil and rich man. He is in upper class but isnt the richest of them all. He wear a black suit with a waist coat and a black tie. He is very cunning and domatinating over other characters such as Henry. He is seen to be in love with Rosalie but isnt to fussed over there as he treats her like she is just there to stand and look glamerous.

Henry White
Henry is a 23 year old american jazz singer, he is the brother of the 'powerful man' that Claus works for. He is in upper class and has alot of money from his career, he can be seen as powerful or strong as he stands up for himself when Claus comes to see him. He wears black trousers with a white shirt and black braces and tie.

Carlisle
Carlisle is a 25 year old ameican detective that has reasontly been working on a case of murder of Rosalies ex husband. He is in middle class however he uses his money to go towards things he needs for his job, he dresses smart by wearing a grey suit with a hat, so not everyone can see his face to make him 'unseen'. He is secertly in love with Rosalie, as she plays him and Claus off one another.

Esme
Esme is a 28 year old american maid of Henry White.  She has long hair but always wears it up as it is part of her job to keep it off her face. She wears a black smart dress with a maids apron with black tights and shoes. She always hold a silver tray incase something is needed to be carryed away.

Rosalie
Rosalie is a 22 year old american. She is the femme fatale of the film and is very whitty and suductive. She is a widow of her ex husband that was in a gang but got shot, and now is playing Claus and Carlisle of one another. All she is interested in is the money (a golddigger) however she does have a good heart and helps them both out.  She wear s purple dress with her hair tyed back in a bun and bright red lipstict and shining shoes.

Main Task - Pre Production - Actors Info

Jacob Sells is playing the role of Claus and evil guy that is 'doing his bosses dirty work' of killing Henry.



Michael Coopland plays the character Henry who is a rich famous guy.

Stephanie Warlow plays Rosalie the femme fatale of our media production.

Gemma Custance plays Henry Whites maid Esme

Harrison Bernard plays Carlisle the dective in my media production

Main Task - Pre Production - Location info/photos

Here are some pictures of the location that we filmed, there are three different areas that we filmed.

This is wear the main scene was took place, where Claus and Henry come face to face and Henry is shot. Also later on in that scene Esme walks in and finds Henry dead on the floor. This was the main film location as it is the area where most of the shots took place.

This is the front door of the house this are is used for two scenes when Claus goes into the house and when he leaves. Also to the left is were we filmed the shadow of Rosalie smoking, we are using this for this the credits at the begining of the production.

This is where we film Claus and Rosalie walking towards the house at the beginning and at the end when they walk off. This is a big part as it sets the scene of where the film is located.

This is the location we used to film Carlisle picking up the phone to esme as she rings him to tell him that Henry had been murdered.

Main Task- Production - Shoot pictures/ info

Here as some pictures of the cast on set, we have placed them in the main area where we filmed, this was the living room of henry whites house, we dicided to take pictures of them in this room as it is where most of them film.

Here is a picture of Claus and Rosalie together as they are meant to be in love.

This is a Picture of Henry and his maid Esme

Finially a picture of Carlisle on his own as he doesnt come in contact with any other character in the production.

Main Task- Pre Production - Risk Assessment

Main Task - Costume and Props

Here are some images of some costumes and props we would like to use in our film noir.
A Trench Coat

A femme Fatale gown and cigarette with holder



A Hat for one of the Male actors

A Femme Fatale hair style

Props that will be used

A Gun







Main Task - Pre-Production - Screenplay

THE SHOT 4

Main Task - Pre-Production - Script Draft 3

THE SHOT 3

Main Task-Diary Entry 4

Evaluation
Today we were told about our evaluation and what needs to be involved. We went through all the questions and dicussed what needed to be involved within our answers. Our clips have to involve images, clips and ourselfs have to been seen atleast once. Also we have to write a word document of 800-1500 words.

Main Task-Dairy Entry 3

Me and Lauren are getting on with our pre-production really well, we have done our script, storyboard, shot list and have done half of our risk assesment and production log. We still have a lot to do but we  are getting on with everything really well. I have now got my lighting certificate, and we have booked out the lighting and camera for the 6-8 of march. We ringing up about a location and hoping we will be able to film, we have a second choice which is located in the school if we can not get our first. We think everything will be done before our production date but we are unsure about our actors, we have two but need to look around more for 3 males.We have found this very tricky as they need to be able to do an american accent and elder looking.

Main Task- Pre-Production - Storyboard

Main Task- Production - Lighting

Three point lighting
Kay lighting, Fill lighting and back lighting

Key lighting is the strongest it has the most influence on the look of the scene. It can be placed anywhere to the side of the camera, this makes the other side creates some shadow.

KEY LIGHTING:

Fill lighting is the secondary light and is placed on the opposite side f the key light. it is used to fill the shadow that is created by the key light.

FILL LIGHT

FILL LIGHT and KEY LIGHT

Back lighting is behind the subject and lights it from the rear.

BACK LIGHT

BACK and FILL LIGHTS

BACK LIGHT (with jel) and FILL LIGHT

Main Task- Production- Lighting

Three point lighting
Kay lighting, Fill lighting and back lighting

Key lighting is the strongest it has the most influence on the look of the scene. It can be placed anywhere to the side of the camera, this makes the other side creates some shadow.

Fill lighting is the secondary light and is placed on the opposite side f the key light. it is used to fill the shadow that is created by the key light.

Back lighting is behind the subject and lights it from the rear.

Main Task- Production- Lighting

What is lighting?
All videos use some sort of lighting wheather it be natural light (from the sun) or artirficial lights, the goal of video lighting is to choose the best source(s), for achieve your goals first and fore most you need enough light and you need to be able to identiify the lighting sources.

SPILL- extra source of light coming from the same one, throught the barn doors.
TOPP LIGHT- came from the top
SHADOWS- a shadow

Main Task- Pre-production - Casting

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Main Task- Pre-Production - Casting

This is a print screen of our advertisement on casting call pro. 

Main Task- Pre-Productions- Brainstorm

Main Task- Pre-Production - Script Draft 1

THE SHOT

Main Task - Pre-Production - Script Draft 2

THE SHOT 2

Main Task - Pre-Production - Shot List

The Shot - Shot List

Main Task- Dairy Entry 2

In todays lesson we finished writing our first draft of our script, we then read them to the class and got some feed back. We then started to adjust our script for our second drafts but adding more conventional things of film noir to our dialogue such as the ltime it was set in 1930-40s and American. Me and Lauren researched American slang and added some into our dialogue to make it more conventional. We also looked at a acting website to hire some actors bs think we will be using the we site to get actors for some of our main characters as they meet the points the we need for them. We have not yet finished our second draft but it is almost done with the adjustments in place.

Main Task -Target Audience- Questionnaire

Film Noir Questionnaire

Main Task-Diary Entry 1

In my team I am working with Lauren Cooper, we have done a rough outline of our plot and have been looking at places for us to film, we are going to get the numbers of a few locations and ask if it will be possible to use them. We have had to change a few things in out plot because we re watched some film noir openings and realised that we were missing some conventions such as a voice over. Later on we are going to be writing our first script and decide who is going to do which parts of pre- production. We have decided in production time I am going to be the director and shared the camera man role with Lauren. Lauren is going to be the editor and the producer. We have chosen these roles because I want to improve on my directing and camera skills, Lauren wanted to do the editing as she had never done it before and also wanted to do camera work as well because we both want to improve on it.

Main Task- Similar Products- Film Noir Posters

Most of film noir posters are cartoon pictures, the posters are mostly bright colours this seems unordinary because film noir is in black and white. The brightly coloured film posters is to attract the audience in to make them want to watch the film. They make famous actors names stand out in bold and a bigger font size, because most of the audience go to see a film because of the actor not because the actual film. Film posters tend to have to main characters on them as it shows who the film is based around. The position of the character on how they are standing/posing shows there personality to give the audience a look in to what the characters are going to be like and who is who.

Main Task-Similar Products- Film Noir Openings

The Killers
The opening of The Killers is mainly got titles on, but before the titles, there is one element i would like to use during my production which is where they are driving in the car and the lights of the car (outside) is the only light element used, i think it creates a great effect and it sets the scene, as the light slowly goes on a sign as the car gets closer, it reads 'Brentwood' which sets the scene of where they are.

I watched the first 2 minutes.

Crime Wave

The opening of Crime Wave is very interesting as they start in the car and got to a gas station, as they are looking for something but unsure of what it is so it keeps the audience guessing. The element of this opening is that where the camera is placed in the car it makes you think that you are in the car and a part of what is going on I would to use this in my production because I would want to make the audience feel that they are a part of our film.

i watched the first 3 minuets.

Danger Signal

The opening to Danger Signal is really interesting as it grabs your attention straight away and when the clip finished i wanted to keep watching it. I like the different camera angles they used during the clip and the different place as it make you realise where this is set and the newspaper used in it also help you understand what has happened and the sort of film noir that it is.

I watched the whole clip as it is only short.

Main Task-Similar Products- Conclusion

To conclude all of the film noir film clips I have watched and read about so far they all have a similar plot where someone is killed somehow then the good guy is running away or trying to find  the bad guy with the help of the femme fatal, in some cases though she is the one that killed the person and the good guy is trying to protect her.  They all seem to end with an open ending to keep the audience guessing. They also have common things such as a detective or high authority police, gangsters involved and a love interest involved.

Main Task-Similar Products- 5 Film Clips

Sweet Smell of Success

Sweet smell of Success is set in New York City, they say that ‘your reputation is everything and if you’re not careful it could be destroyed overnight’. The director transforms New York City to a dystopia soaked with jazz, smoke and criminals what noir films all have. The film follows ‘Sidney Falso a press agent without the burdens of morality’. He is hired by J.J Hunsecker, New York highest newspaper columnist, to stop his sister from marring Dallas who is a young jazz guitarist. Therefore Sidney puts some reefers on him and spreads rumours that is a Communist, Thing seem to have worked and the relationship ends. However this isn’t the last we see of Sidney his is summoned to Hunsecker’s penthouse only to find the sister attempting suicide. Hunsecker walks in on Sidney saving her and accusing him of rape. Fates are decided and lives are destroyed as the truth comes out. In this film no one is innocent.

The Big Heat

The big heat is a violent and intense film, but most of the violence and deaths happen off screen, unseen. It starts off with a death of a police sergeant. There is a detective assigned to the case, Dave Bannion, believes that foul play may be involved. Bannion has reasons the think that a powerful gang of criminals has infiltrated the police force and bumped the sergeant off.  However the department’s higher upper force the case closed and one of the witnesses willing to provide information is murdered. He insults the suspected mob boss only to have wife killed with a car bomb as a result. Using methods at his disposal and the help of the gangster’s girlfriend Debbie, he cuts a path of violence and anger through all the obstacles in his way.

Out of the Past

Jeff Bailey is running away from a past that he can’t escape from. At the start of the film we see bailey as the operator of a small town gas station, On day he is forced to meet with a gambler called Whit Sterling. On the way to the meeting, he confesses his past to his girlfriend. It seems that he was one a private eye who was hired by Sterling to his mistress Kathie after she shot him and stole $40,000 from him. Bailey managed to track her down to Acapulco. But he ended up falling in love with her. However one murder and terrible discovery later, he decided to leave her. Now his past is caught up with him as he travels to meet that man he betrayed. But when he confronts Sterling, Kathie is there. On man’s past will lead him to an uncertain future. It is left up to the audience to make the final judgement concerning the sad, strange case of Jeff Bailey.

The Big Sleep

Philip Marlowe is a detective played by Humphrey Bogart. He finds himself in the employ of the sick and dying general Sternwood , who asks him to keep an eye on his daughter Carmen who has fallen in with a bad group of people. Too bad he is distracted by her beautiful older sister Mrs Vivian Rutledge. Things begin to get out of control as people start dying all around Marlowe and he gets involved with powerful criminals, an underground pornography ring, and several nasty cases of black mail.

The Killer

It starts where two hit men invade a small town and kill The Swede who puts up no resistance.  We learn that the Swede used to be a member of a gang of thieves whom he was pushed into betraying by femme fatale Kitty Collins Colfax .The Swede is fully aware of his transgressions and knows that he cannot escape his fate and so he greets his punishment like a man instead of trying to escape from it. We then follow an investigator and a police detective as they struggle to track down his killers and bring them to justice. 

Main Task-Similar Products- Film Noir Definition & Conventions

Film Noir is a term to discribe stylish 'Hollywood crime dramas' expectally the ones that emphazise on the cynical attuited and sexual motivations in the 1940s to the 1950s. Film noir is characterized in low-key lighting in black and white, a urban set and cynical characters.

Conventions of a Film Noir:

• Black and white                                        
• Set in 1940s - 1950s                               
• American
• Filmed at night
• Narriator
• Low-Key Lighting
• Creating shadows from lighting
• Glamorous female actresses
• Set in a city
• No handheld camera
• Interesting camera angles
• Tone
• Adetective is usually the anti-hero