Post - Production - Editing

We are currently editing the shots taken during our free time and during lessons. This is done by using premier-pro, which is a software that enables us to import our footage and edit it to how we would prefer.

Production - Stills

These are the pictures that were taken on shoot, to be used in the poster and for the dvd covering, by taking these pictures it means that the "advertising" of the film are linked to our movie and through research of previous "film noir" posters we will adapt them to look in their conventions.

Research - Posters

Film noir have very original posters in which are generally similar in terms of style, this may be due to the genre of the film but also the time are in which they were most commonly made.

Overall, they use fairly dark colours and lighting, however all the images are shown in colour as opposed to the film itself in which is in black and white. The writing is also fairly 1940s styling as it represents that time era and displays the colour brightly upon the background.

Research - Questionnaire Results

1. Are you
Male                                  Results: Male - 45% Female - 55%
Female

2. What age group are you?                      Results:
9 and below                                             5%
10 - 15                                                   10%
16 - 21                                                   35%
22 - 35                                                  20%
36 - 47                                                  20%
48+                                                       10%

3. Do you like crime movies, in black and white?                       Results:
Yes                                                                                           65%
No                                                                                            35%

4. which of the following would most interest you in our short film?         Results:
Murder                                                                                                   85%
Mysterious, Sexy Woman                                                                       90%
Bad guy                                                                                                  75%
Romance                                                                                                 50%
Bloody                                                                                                    25%
Other                                                                                                      0%

Production - filming

Today we shot our short film noir, following the roles of :

Me: - Producer
       - Lighting
Sami - Director
         - Camera

Although we each had individual roles we were able to put forward each of our own opinions and in my opinion worked really well as a team.
I also decided to take my SLR camera and tripod so that we could film behind the scenes and also take still shots... but doing this i thought we could use the photos for our poster and then the "behind the scenes" footage for our evaulations and also as an extra on our final product.

We faced a few problem today in which weren't great but we were able to solve:
- Our original actor for "Charlie Kane" was unable to arrive at the time we'd arranged as he had other arrangements, so we had to find another actor and gratefully jonathon collard stepped in at the last minute.
- i'd not had very much practise in terms of using the lights until an hour before shooting, so i had to use that time briefly to try to attempt different lighting techniques.. such as; using the letterbox lighting upon the femme fatale's eyes, to enhance her feature and her overall beauty.

Planning - Lighting.

I was able to get my lighting certificate yesterday, to ensure that we could use the equipment correctly and safely, by doing this it will prvent any dangerous risk and allow myself to understand the clear safety rules.

Production Schedule.

Contact Details:
Ashleigh Hughes                                  0751906992
Sami Bean                                          07540101630

Location:                                      - Elton Furze House
                                                      Elton                             (near golf course)
                                                      Peterborough
                                                      PE7 3TT

Technical Requirements:
- Camera (s)
- Tripod
- SD Card
- Lighting
- SLR Camera
- Digital Camera

Directions to location:
turn left out of the school drive.
Continue on this road.
Begin to go around the green, at first junction turn right and then take the next left off the green.
Continue on this road, out of Sawtry.
Continue through Glatton, past the pub called Addison arms.
Once at the junction you will see a road across to you, it is slightly to the right.
Take this road, it is named High Haden road.
Continue up this road and out of Glatton.
When you come to a junction, turn right and continue along this road, this road is named Bullock road.
you come to a cross roads, go straight ahead.
continue over the fly-over.
the golf course is on your right, pass this.
the house is thr first on your right after the golf course , there are gates at the front with the name "Furze view"

Scenes:
Scene 1 - opening titles, a woman is typing on a typerwriter (names of cast/crew)
Scene 2 - Paul is shot dead in his garden
Scene 3 - Jane finds Paul in their Garden , and calls the detective
Scene 4 - Jane and her Daughters wait for the detective
Scene 5 - Detective arrives at the door
Scene 6 - It's discussed what happened to Paul, and Jane is questioned
Scene 7 - Detective Kane is in his office contemplately what he should do, and what happened in the case
Scene 8 - Victoria walks into the office and tells the detective she had knowledge of what happened to Paul Rauling.

Shooting Schedule.

Production Name:                    - Casino Trap

Date of recording:                    - Saturday 12th February 2011

Location:                                 - Furze View House

Cast & Crew call time:             - 10.00am

Setup, Start and finish time:       Setup - 10.15am
                                                Start - 10.30am
                                                Finish - 13.00pm

New Location:                         - N/A

Property Requirement:              - N/A

Research - Camera Work.

In Film noir there is only generally basic camera work and nothing too complicated which leaves us with basics:
- one shot
- two shot
- wide shot
- establishing shot
- etc.

There is little movement used such as : Pan or the use of a dolly this is because it was so basic in the 1940s and simple shot worked for the types of films that were produced.

Some shots include:

Research - Lighting.

Traditionally in film noir, lighting is KEY through the way it can add special techniques to the shots given on screen, such as :

This picture shows the use of Key lighting from beside the camera, which is generally placed on the right side of the camera. Then it showing "Natural" light such as lamposts, etc, this gives the effect of night & although it simply sets the scene it also emphasises light on the characters face giving it shadows and shades.

An origninal "film noir" lighting shot is the use of the blinds, this is when the lights are placed behind the blinds in order to give it a shadow effect. and therefore may give the audience the scene set of an offcie for example. This is very good when doing a wide shot as it can emphasise the location of the character and initially what's happening.

Women were often shot very differently to men in film noirs as it was to show off their beauty and sexuality, for example in the picture on the left a woman is shown in fairly little light, this will be to show her main features rather than her entire body. By doing this we are focusing on upper-torso and face as a opposed to her entire body, also we are somewhat focusing on her "smoking" as this was very popular in the way it made smoking attractive through women doing this.

Also women aren't often shot in harsh lighting, and it is generally softened through using gels, these are what can put on to the light in order to change colour or in this case the soften the light. By doing this it somewhat makes the shot sometimes "blurry" and therefore once again empahsises the beauty of the character.

I am aiming to get my lighting certificate tomorrow, so then we can begin filming straight away.

Research - Victoria Sweetine.

Victoria, (The femme Fatale), is ideally going to look somewhat like this & we are aiming to make our actor, Lauren Hughes, look as similar to this as possible:

The idea behind this it to hightlight the characters beautiful features, Her eyes, Lips and bone structure. This will be done with the use of dark colours however we are aiming to make it slightly less "Harsh" through softening the tones slightly and giving her somewhat the traiditional, beautiful woman's look.

By combining both the "innocent" and "Sexy" look we will hopefully be able to create the character we are looking for.. A Femme Fatale

Research - Questionnaire, Target Audience

Film Noir (Black and white crime drama)
1) Are you
Male          Female

2) What Age group are you in?
9 and below         10-15          16-21          22-35          36-47          48+

3) Do you like crime drama movies, in which are black and white?
Yes          No

4) If No, Please state why? (Do not proceed with this questionnaire if so)
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5) what is it about "Film Noir" movies that interests you?
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6) Which of the following would you most like to see in our short film noir movie?
A murder          a Mysterious, Sexy Woman          a bad guy          a romance          bloody/Gory scenes
Other

if other please state below:
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