Changes

New Character Profile:
Heather Casey
Age: 16
Unfortunately, as our previous actress was ill, we felt that it was best to change the actress as we needed to be able to film fairly quickly, and also have time to do reshoots as well. It made sense to change the actress to someone who is part of the group, as it would be much easier to plan and organise any extra reshoots that were necessary.
Female Protagonist
Elegant clothing - black dress, heels
Main character in opening, dominance connoted through low angles, close ups, and POV shots.

Teacher Feedback 1

The teacher gave us some feedback early on, focusing on our shooting schedule and how we could use our time effectively. Firstly he advised us to rethink our shooting schedule, making it a lot more specific, also adding in dates. This made it clear to us, as to what shots we where going to film each time furthermore allowing us to progress a lot quicker. The teacher focused on how we have dramatically veered away from our animatic, this is a risky move as we have nothing to refer to but on the other hand could be an improvement to what we already had. After seeing our teacher we where able to work out a detailed shooting plan allowing is to get on the filming and not losing valuable time. But trying to keep to out animatic where possible, as we could easy lose sight of our end result, creating a 2 minute opening to a film with no relevance to a Film Noir, or thriller.

Typography Changes

We have had to make many changes one of them was our Typography, as we found that it was too cartoony and did not go with our chosen genre. After doing some group research we found that Serif was the main font used in Film Noir titles. Therefore we chose to use this for our titles keeping to the codes and conventions of Film Noir. The reason that Film Noir use Serif is mainly because it is a very simplistic text, also help to create a mysterious atmosphere to the opening of the scene which is generally created with in Film Noir.

17/03

We had only a few shots that we needed to get done, these where final shots that where going to allow the audience to feel the full brutality of the female. We tried to capture this by using bold shots like a P.O.V. of the male being hit for example. The filming session was only short and just allowed us to get some final shots that will hopefully make the difference in the end.

15/03

This was going to be our final time filming allowing us to use the rest of the week to edit and make any final adjustments. Before filming we discussed how we could film the last 40 seconds, we decided to use as many low angles as possible to connote the females dominance and then high angles to show how weak the cheating male is, this would then have more of an impact on the audience reinforcing the females dominance in the opening. We tried to not use high angle’s when the cheater and Femi Fatal where both in a shot, but instead to make the male positioned lower than the female so that she was always looking down on him, this meant that she was clearly more powerful. After this filming session we found that we had met our 2-minute deadline.

14/03

Once we had got all of our footage we did some rough editing where we found that at most we were going to have 1 minute 20, so more filming was needed to make up the last 40 seconds. However this gave us a chance to use some of our new knowledge and try and create a more believable Film Noir using shot variations and dialogue. Gambling was the best idea we came up with, allowing us to get our 40 seconds, also connoting the females dominance via one of the males cheating. However we spoke to the teacher where he guided us to use the 40 seconds to show a more violent and aggressive side of the female. Then use bold shots to capture and connote her dominance, with more P.O.V.’s of both the cheater and the Femi Fatal.

28/02

We thought we would try and experiment using some bold shots; we did this by having a P.O.V. of Sam as he was forced to look at heather. This was from a low angle slowly looking at the female standing up beside him; this was a good shot in theory as it connoted the female’s dominance. We also did a high angle shot of Sam being dragged in, as the first attempt wasn’t good enough, whilst doing this we decided to get a shot of Sam being dropped from the females P.O.V. However after doing all of these shots we found that nothing fitted properly and we needed to rethink our shots and how we where going to capture the sequence, perhaps a different choice of shots would be needed.