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Wednesday, 28 March 2012
Final Poster and Review pages
For the text above, view the other blog posts about the Film Review page!
Sunday, 25 March 2012
Evaluation Preparation
A table created to help with the evaluation process
| What have you achieved so far? |
| Main; |
| Film Noir: Hard Cash |
| Plot: wife finds cheating husband, |
| meets up with mistress and they plot to kill him together. |
| The fake suicide deepens when the Detective arrives. |
| Main features: Femme Fatal, corruption, money |
| Ancillary; |
| Poster |
| 2 Film Reviews |
| Hard Cash Film Review - in progress |
| Conventions |
| Film Noir; |
| Costumes |
| Alcohol |
| Femme Fatal |
| Death/murder |
| corrupt police |
| Low key lighting |
| deep shots |
| Urban area |
| Poster; |
| Large title |
| Colours |
| Alignment |
| Text |
| Denotations |
| Connotations |
| Film Review; |
| Large Image |
| Not a lot of text |
| Star rating |
| Brief summary |
| Easy to read |
| What are you please with and what needs further improvement? (MES/C/E/S/Creativity) |
| Please with; poster, ideas for film review page, having finished the movie on time. |
| Not pleased with; shaking camera in parts of the movie, no rain or night shots in the movie. |
| Good/confident use of Media Technology? | Research and Planning? |
| Blog | Excellent |
| Final Cut | Good |
| Camera work | Satisfactury |
| Photoshop | Unsatisfactory |
| Picnik.com | |
| Industry: | |
| What production | |
| company and why? | |
| SCREEN GRABS |
| Audience Feedback/ research target audience |
| Film |
| Edit |
| FEEDBACK IN PROGRESS |
| Audience Research |
| Video Interview |
| People's opinion on Film Noir |
Hard Cash
We have uploaded our movie to youtube, here is a link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jL_C8tbdZzc&feature=youtu.be
We uploaded it on the 22nd March, it is now the 25th and it already has 100 views! I am really proud of what we have achieved, and it makes me happy to see that lots of people are watching it. It makes it all seem much more worth while.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jL_C8tbdZzc&feature=youtu.be
We uploaded it on the 22nd March, it is now the 25th and it already has 100 views! I am really proud of what we have achieved, and it makes me happy to see that lots of people are watching it. It makes it all seem much more worth while.
Thursday, 22 March 2012
Film review page design
Initial design:
Now I am going to write the film review for my own movie and then add the text around the images.
Now I am going to write the film review for my own movie and then add the text around the images.
Hard Cash Film Review:
This new and upcoming, seven minute, 21st Century adaptation on the Film Noir/Neo Noir genre is a wonderful blend between the two styles. The movie begins in modern colour, but soon flashbacks into traditional black and white. Directed by Rosie Lansbury, it balances on the verge between bad mistakes and a brilliant first attempt.
When Evelyn Harold (Chloe Newton), a classic femme fatal, discovers that her husband is cheating, a classic Film Noir plot ensues, but, how far will she go to get revenge? The plot thickens when Policeman Harry White (Jack Squires) and Detective Jack Chandler (Ben Humberstone) discover the suicide of James Harold (Daniel Cowie) and a late-night phone call from Evelyn twists the plot into an excellent example of the Film Noir genre.
Unfortunately, due to its extremely low budget and inexperienced production team, the special effects are appalling. The blood is clearly nothing more than ketchup on the face! However, the gun shot and other editing are extremely well timed. Therefore, if you ignore the objects from the wrong era and bad effects, this film will keep you entertained for the full seven minutes.
The movie has an unknown cast and an unknown crew; however, in my opinion, this makes the movie even better as you start off with very low expectations, and are greeted with what is actually a pretty decent movie! The acting, if not a little cheesy, is accurate and entertaining, and the edgy and slick directing of Rosie Lansbury has made this piece really come together.
So, just like The Big Sleep made us crave love and LA Confidential made us suspicious of the Police, Hard Cash combines both those themes with an extra twist!
Lucy Cunnington
Wednesday, 21 March 2012
Poster Design
Initial photos of JACK CHANDLER and HARRY WHITE
I really like this pose!
I love the angle and height difference of this image, however, I think that it reminds me more of an Album cover than a Movie poster!
Initial photos of EVELYN HAROLD:
Mean, stroppy Femme Fatal
Innocent, misleading Femme Fatal
Mean, capable of murder Femme Fatal
Seductive, sweet Femme Fatal
The layout of my poster:
I chose this layout after looking at the LA Confidential layout, I think it will appeal to the Crime Drama fans as their is clearly a dark theme to this movie, there is a policeman and a detective, and of course, the beautiful woman, that every hit movie needs!
First edit ideas:
I think this reminds me of a proper Film Noir poster, as it is almost black and white, but not quiet
Here I enhances the colours, and made it darker, I think it works well.
Here I enhanced the colour saturation and temperature of the poster, I think the previous shades are better.
This is my favourite; it has the red, but it is a dark red suggesting danger, it is darker which links to Film Noir, but in colour which links to Neo Noir, then the policeman is in the most light, which links to his character (the most innocent out of them all) and then the Detective is looking very serious, as if he is in power and in deep thought, which also links to his character, as he is the one to figure it all out.
Production companies
During our process in making our Film Noir, we had to look at production companies. Production Companies provide the physical basis for works in the realms of the performing arts, new media art, film, television, radio and video. We had to think about what kind of production companies there are, and which one would produce our movie or alternatively, make up our own production company (which is what we decided to do)
Here are some of the most famous production company logos:
Once we had looked at all of these production companies, we decided to make our own. We played around with our initials: R.G.L and L.A.C which is when we came up with the idea of 'Double el' as there are two 'L's within our names. We then came up with the idea of 'SinCity productions'. We came up with this idea from the origin of Cinema City, shortened to CinCity and then we thought how SinCity sounded the same, however, it would link our production company to the idea's of Sin. This idea appealed to us since our movie covers the topics of both cheating, corruption and murder - all three serious sins. Therefore we finalised our ideas as Double el, SinCity Productions.
Once we had come up with this name, we had a few ideas as to what our logo could be. Our initial idea was to have two guns facing eachother, however, we thought this was maybe a bit limiting as to what our production company would cover, and so, instead, we settled on a Filming Clapper Board with our logo on it. We thought that this would be very effective and link very well with our ideas and our movie.
We decided to use this image as our base because it is plain, and most Logo's aren't very complicated:
Here are some of the most famous production company logos:
Once we had looked at all of these production companies, we decided to make our own. We played around with our initials: R.G.L and L.A.C which is when we came up with the idea of 'Double el' as there are two 'L's within our names. We then came up with the idea of 'SinCity productions'. We came up with this idea from the origin of Cinema City, shortened to CinCity and then we thought how SinCity sounded the same, however, it would link our production company to the idea's of Sin. This idea appealed to us since our movie covers the topics of both cheating, corruption and murder - all three serious sins. Therefore we finalised our ideas as Double el, SinCity Productions.
Once we had come up with this name, we had a few ideas as to what our logo could be. Our initial idea was to have two guns facing eachother, however, we thought this was maybe a bit limiting as to what our production company would cover, and so, instead, we settled on a Filming Clapper Board with our logo on it. We thought that this would be very effective and link very well with our ideas and our movie.
We decided to use this image as our base because it is plain, and most Logo's aren't very complicated:
To see our final logo, please watch the first 10 seconds of our movie.
Film Review Page Research
3 videos of Rosie and myself talking about various Film Review Pages as part of our research.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrj3bZ_SE74&context=C4f9a7daADvjVQa1PpcFO77QS8awzDpGEkrq0TME2-vv2SzOzZu68=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu6LpLzyF1g&context=C45948e6ADvjVQa1PpcFO77QS8awzDpIE9WjCzmaMLyWOWgU-RwIU=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRCUK7i6qsc&context=C48c52c5ADvjVQa1PpcFO77QS8awzDpGjUx6mmxYFTx_Sm1oLJDdE=
My own analysis:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrj3bZ_SE74&context=C4f9a7daADvjVQa1PpcFO77QS8awzDpGEkrq0TME2-vv2SzOzZu68=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu6LpLzyF1g&context=C45948e6ADvjVQa1PpcFO77QS8awzDpIE9WjCzmaMLyWOWgU-RwIU=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRCUK7i6qsc&context=C48c52c5ADvjVQa1PpcFO77QS8awzDpGjUx6mmxYFTx_Sm1oLJDdE=
My own analysis:
What Film Reviews typically have:
1. An entertaining and catchy opening line.
2. Who's in it and who do they play?
3. A taster of the plot.
4. Comments on special effects and use of music/sound.
5. Comments on the performance of director and cast.
6. What genre it is and if its a good example and why.
7. Its audience appeal.
8. A personal opinion throughout.
9. An entertaining sentence to conclude or sum up.
I intend to include all of the above in my Film Review Ancillary so as to stick with Film Review Conventions.
Monday, 19 March 2012
The Big Edit
After four weeks of editing, we have finally finished our Film Noir - Hard Cash! This has been very time consuming and has become our main priority, and so we have not been posting regular blogs. Instead we have decided to make one big post about editing as a whole. Therefore this post will be a write up of our editing process.
Week 1 (20th February - 24th February)
Week 2 (27th February - 2nd March)
We began this week by uploading the shots filmed on the Wednesday 22nd February and then edited scene 3 and 4 (which are set in the Cafeteria). We spent some time looking for music for scene 3, as it needed to build enough tension without seeming inappropriate or over the top. Once we found our music, we had to align it exactly with the fade to black at the end of the scene. This added great tension and made the scene appear more exciting and we think that it creates a more professional feel to the movie. For scene 4, we had some issues because one scene, the lines were said wrong, and where the lines were correct, the camera was shaking. We discussed the options of filming again, however, with the time constraints, this would not have been possible and so we decided to use the shaking shots because the other shots did not make sense. Because the first section of this scene was not to a high enough standard, we spent extra time making the rest of it appear professional, for example using a large range of shots and angles.
We then left another gap for scene 6, and edited scene 7. This was because scene 7 is much shorter, and we only had a limited time left to edit that week. This scene was in colour and so needed even less editing. However, we had to align the gun shot perfectly, which took some time, but however, the outcome was celebrated.
Week 3 (5th March - 9th March)
During this week, we went back to scene 6 to fill in the gap in our timeline. We spent a large amount of time editing due to the fact that these were two of the major scenes in our movie. At this point, we had no music for these scenes but we added them later (see week 4). During these scenes, we tried to use as many angles as possible to link with the Film Noir conventions.
Once we had completed scene 6, we watched our movie from scene 1 to 7 to see if it all flowed so far. Because our Film Noir was already 4 minutes long at this point, we decided to cut down the amount of angles and shots in the scenes we had already edited. Our main cuts were in scene 6, removing pauses and some angles as well as unimportant lines. We also removed quite a few angles from scene 2, which at that point was our longest scene.
Next we edited scene 8.We wanted to use a tilt up from shoes to head of Chloe (Evelyn Harold) as this is a common feature of Film Noir. However, the scene was incredibly long already, and we found that the tilt looked awkward and unprofessional. During this editing session, we removed multiply unimportant lines and it was almost a minute long, and it was quite boring in full. We think removing the unnecessary shots has made the scene much more professional and interesting to watch.
Lastly, we edited scene 9. This is where we had to have a voiceover of both Jack (Harry White) speaking on the phone and of Chloe (Evelyn Harold) speaking to Ben (Jack Chandler). We think this scene is another example of Film Noir conventions and are quite proud of this scene.
Week 4 (12th March - 16th March)
We began this week by filming on the 13th March. We filmed our very last short scenes and celebrated when we realised that our filming was over. We then went back into the editing sweet and uploaded the last scenes.
During week 4, we edited scene 10, our final scene 11 and the scenes we had just filmed. These scenes were quite vital to our movie and so we spend most of the week on just the two and a half scenes, editing the flow, angles and music. Once these were finished, we concentrated an entire day to editing the music and sound. This is were we edited scene 6 and added a more dramatic undertone to the scene, as without music, it was not as dramatic as a death-scene should be! We sourced all of our music from www.freesound.org, this was really useful, and the music completed the movie.
Lastly, we added text, an intro and moving credits at the end to our movie. During one day of filming, we filmed each character doing a pose for the final credits of the movie. We put these together, and made them black and white to link with conventions. We then added jazz music over the top, which also links to the Film Noir conventions. We found that these final details really made our movie come together, and it made it look like a final, finished product.
Week 1 (20th February - 24th February)
We began by uploading all of our footage from the camera's and watching them all. We sorted out the good shots from the bad and then put them in order of appearance in our movie. We also made sure that we were capable in using Final Cut on the Mac computers, for example, how to make our clips black and white and how to make scenes fade in and out. However, we found that this came quite naturally because of the previous experience we had acquired while making our Music Video for Example - Change the way you kissed me, at the end of our AS year.
Although we had started editing, we had some filming left to do. We filmed on the 22nd February in school, for the cafeteria scenes. By this point, we had already edited scene one and two, including music.
We edited both scenes by carefully watching each shot again, and selecting specific sections from the clips and placing them in the time line. We then had to make sure that the scene flowed together well and was easy to watch, to do this we had to remove some shots that we liked, or change the order of them slightly. For example, in scene two we changed the order of the kissing and the close up of the hand shot. This scene had a lot of different sections and angles, and so probably took us the longest to edit.
As we went along, we made each completed section (apart from the coloured Neo Noir scenes) black and white, which made it easier to see which scenes we had completed when we came back the next day. To make it black and white, we selected the whole scene, went to 'Effects', 'Video Filters', 'Image Control' and then 'Desaturate'.
Because we didn't have the footage for 3 and 4 uploaded, we went on to edit scene 5 straight away. This was complicated because of the various angles we'd filmed, and because of the timeline, it was easily edited to the right order, and we were able to make the scene smooth. We left a gap in the timeline so that scene 3 and 4 could be easily inserted later.
Week 2 (27th February - 2nd March)
We began this week by uploading the shots filmed on the Wednesday 22nd February and then edited scene 3 and 4 (which are set in the Cafeteria). We spent some time looking for music for scene 3, as it needed to build enough tension without seeming inappropriate or over the top. Once we found our music, we had to align it exactly with the fade to black at the end of the scene. This added great tension and made the scene appear more exciting and we think that it creates a more professional feel to the movie. For scene 4, we had some issues because one scene, the lines were said wrong, and where the lines were correct, the camera was shaking. We discussed the options of filming again, however, with the time constraints, this would not have been possible and so we decided to use the shaking shots because the other shots did not make sense. Because the first section of this scene was not to a high enough standard, we spent extra time making the rest of it appear professional, for example using a large range of shots and angles.
We then left another gap for scene 6, and edited scene 7. This was because scene 7 is much shorter, and we only had a limited time left to edit that week. This scene was in colour and so needed even less editing. However, we had to align the gun shot perfectly, which took some time, but however, the outcome was celebrated.
Week 3 (5th March - 9th March)
During this week, we went back to scene 6 to fill in the gap in our timeline. We spent a large amount of time editing due to the fact that these were two of the major scenes in our movie. At this point, we had no music for these scenes but we added them later (see week 4). During these scenes, we tried to use as many angles as possible to link with the Film Noir conventions.
Once we had completed scene 6, we watched our movie from scene 1 to 7 to see if it all flowed so far. Because our Film Noir was already 4 minutes long at this point, we decided to cut down the amount of angles and shots in the scenes we had already edited. Our main cuts were in scene 6, removing pauses and some angles as well as unimportant lines. We also removed quite a few angles from scene 2, which at that point was our longest scene.
Next we edited scene 8.We wanted to use a tilt up from shoes to head of Chloe (Evelyn Harold) as this is a common feature of Film Noir. However, the scene was incredibly long already, and we found that the tilt looked awkward and unprofessional. During this editing session, we removed multiply unimportant lines and it was almost a minute long, and it was quite boring in full. We think removing the unnecessary shots has made the scene much more professional and interesting to watch.
Lastly, we edited scene 9. This is where we had to have a voiceover of both Jack (Harry White) speaking on the phone and of Chloe (Evelyn Harold) speaking to Ben (Jack Chandler). We think this scene is another example of Film Noir conventions and are quite proud of this scene.
Week 4 (12th March - 16th March)
We began this week by filming on the 13th March. We filmed our very last short scenes and celebrated when we realised that our filming was over. We then went back into the editing sweet and uploaded the last scenes.
During week 4, we edited scene 10, our final scene 11 and the scenes we had just filmed. These scenes were quite vital to our movie and so we spend most of the week on just the two and a half scenes, editing the flow, angles and music. Once these were finished, we concentrated an entire day to editing the music and sound. This is were we edited scene 6 and added a more dramatic undertone to the scene, as without music, it was not as dramatic as a death-scene should be! We sourced all of our music from www.freesound.org, this was really useful, and the music completed the movie.
Lastly, we added text, an intro and moving credits at the end to our movie. During one day of filming, we filmed each character doing a pose for the final credits of the movie. We put these together, and made them black and white to link with conventions. We then added jazz music over the top, which also links to the Film Noir conventions. We found that these final details really made our movie come together, and it made it look like a final, finished product.
Saturday, 10 March 2012
Film Review's
We have studied a few film review's in class, and have been asked to create two Film Review's of our own for any Film Noir's. I have chosen to review LA Confidential and The Big Sleep:
These are my first drafts:
These are my first drafts:
A Film review for L.A. Confidential:
L.A. Confidential is a beautiful, guns-blazing blockbuster! It is set in the gorgeous ‘paradise city’ of L.A. which contrasts magnificently with the brutal and dark crimes occurring throughout the movie.
Director Curtis Hanson’s movie, L.A. Confidential, stars Kevin Spacey, Guy Pearce and Russell Crowe as the three unique LA policemen who end up investigating a deadly mass shooting at an all-night diner, down town. The three men don’t get along very well so will they be able to put their differences aside and work together to find the murderous criminals?
Wendell ‘Bud’ White (Russell Crowe), a character with a soft spot for women and a hatred of abuse, falls in love with beautiful Lynn Bracken (Kim Basinger), a mysterious lady of the night. Later, when Edmund J. Exley (Guy Pearce), the most law-abiding policeman around, meets Lynn and a love-triangle evolves, it becomes increasingly hard for the three policemen to stick together.
Curtis Hanson creates a stunning Neo Noir film with his use of deep shots, single-source lighting and voiceovers. He tells a tale of binary oppositions and love. With a stunning performance by James Cromwell playing the Big Bad Boss Dudley Smith and a witty show by Danny DeVito playing the eccentric journalist, Sid Hudgens, the movie can easily be awarded a solid 4 stars!
L.A. Confidential explores the paths of right and wrong in a way that few directors dare to reveal. The crimes and characters are realistic, heightening the thrill you’ll get from watching it. This movie will really leave you thinking, so don’t delay and watch it now!
Lucy Cunnington
A Film review for The Big Sleep:
The Big Sleep is a classic Film Noir and it is based on a pulp crime novel written by American-born author, Raymond Chandler. It is the first novel to feature Chandler's famous detective, Philip Marlowe. The movie is directed by Howard Hawks and it stars the famous pair; Humphrey Bogart as Philip Marlow and Lauren Bacall as Vivian!
Private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by a rich family, the Sternwoods. He is summoned by the dying General Sternwood and asked to deal with several problems that are troubling his family. Marlowe finds that each problem centres on the disappearance of Sternwood's favoured employee and husband of Vivian, Rusty Regan. Rusty appears to have run away with Mona Mars (Peggy Knudsen) who is the big mobsters’, Eddie Mars’ (John Ridgely), wife! The plot thickens as Marlowe probes and an array of deaths, pornographic pictures and complex characters are unearthed.
In classic Film Noir style, the sound of the movie is often in major key, adding tension. There is diegetic rain and sudden silences! It even includes the classic female scream, performed beautifully by Lauren Bacall. Overall, the movie is a perfect example of the beautiful 1950’s Film Noir genre and it is a reasonably good adaptation of the book itself, perhaps concentrating more on the romance between Bogard and Bacall than the novel. They make a great romantic pair, but will Marlowe be able to love Vivian after the big reveal?
Lucy Cunnington
Posters
The brief of our A2 Media Coursework is:
To create a short film in its entirety, lasting approximately 5 minutes, which may be live action or animated or a combination of both, together with two of the following three options:
First of all, we discussed our Target Audience, and then we designed our posters accordingly. We thought that we probably had four different target audience's.
1. Middle-ages men and women because of our plot. There is a married couple, life insurance and the 1950's style is very popular in Fashion today. This is the sketch idea for our first poster:
We also though that another target audience could be Film Noir enthusiasts. This is because it has elements of both Film noir and Neo noir! Therefore, this poster would be in black and white. However, we decided that this was probably our worst design and so decided not to use it.
In this poster, we would have Evelyn looking at the camera in Femme Fatal way, and Jack looking at Evelyn with love. A little like the 'Becoming Jane' poster:
Harry would be looking mean and straight at the camera. Like this 'Wild Bill' poster:
James and Sarah would be positioned like the 'Hellboy' poster, looking in the same direction:
We think that these posters will cover our Target Audience, and having 3 different posters will be more realistic, as most movies have different posters to appeal to different people who appreciate different aspects of the movie itself. Therefore, we are sticking with usual movie production protocol.
To create a short film in its entirety, lasting approximately 5 minutes, which may be live action or animated or a combination of both, together with two of the following three options:
- a poster for the film
- a radio trailer for the film
- a film magazine review page featuring the film
First of all, we discussed our Target Audience, and then we designed our posters accordingly. We thought that we probably had four different target audience's.
1. Middle-ages men and women because of our plot. There is a married couple, life insurance and the 1950's style is very popular in Fashion today. This is the sketch idea for our first poster:
In this poster, Evelyn and Jack embrace, Evelyn is looking at Jack who is looking at her but there is no physical contact between them. James is looking at Evelyn but holding Sarah's hand, who is looking at James. Jack and James would be in suits while Evelyn would be in red and Sarah in her waitress outfit.
Our second target audience would probably be Crime Drama Fans as there are guns, money, sex, police in our film and the plot is a crime unfolding/crime investigation. In this poster we would have Jack in the middle, holding a cigarette and a note pad. He would be looking at the note pad or at the camera. Evelyn would be looking at Jack but holding James. We would also have a shot on the other side of Harry interviewing Sarah.
We thought that these two first idea's would be best for us as individual posters for our coursework as they are very similar in layout yet quiet different positioning and camera work.
We also though that another target audience could be Film Noir enthusiasts. This is because it has elements of both Film noir and Neo noir! Therefore, this poster would be in black and white. However, we decided that this was probably our worst design and so decided not to use it.
Lastly, we thought that our target audience would also include teenagers. This is because there are teenage actors and producers, it is a thriller/crime genre and there is a love triangle, which is very popular in teen-movies at the moment. Therefore, for this poster, which we will be producing together as it is our best idea, will have influence from several other existing movie posters. For example, 'Becoming Jane', 'Wild Bill' and 'Hell Boy' have all influenced this poster design.
Harry would be looking mean and straight at the camera. Like this 'Wild Bill' poster:
James and Sarah would be positioned like the 'Hellboy' poster, looking in the same direction:
We think that these posters will cover our Target Audience, and having 3 different posters will be more realistic, as most movies have different posters to appeal to different people who appreciate different aspects of the movie itself. Therefore, we are sticking with usual movie production protocol.
Storyboard
First of all, before Filming began, we had to assign roles to both Rosie and myself. We decided that because I was starring in the movie and I have good attention to detail, that I would be Editor and Rosie would be co-editor. We then decided that Rosie would be director, as she is good at controlling people and getting the script/screenplay into motion, therefore I was to be codirector.
All other roles, we divided equally between ourselves, for example, with costumes, we wrote out what we needed and then discussed who had which items, before splitting the costs between the two of us equally.
This is our Film Noir, Hard Cash, Storyboard:
All other roles, we divided equally between ourselves, for example, with costumes, we wrote out what we needed and then discussed who had which items, before splitting the costs between the two of us equally.
This is our Film Noir, Hard Cash, Storyboard:
We were advised to do the Storyboard on post-it notes, so that we could change the order of our scenes, however, we already knew that this was the perfect order to our scenes, and so deemed it as unnecessary.
We also thought that if we did change our minds, that we could always cut up this storyboard, and then use the technique we were told about.
However, we didnt change our minds and we have now edited our movie to this order!
This is the first scene, and each scene has the same information on it.
Filming the Urban area
Lastly, we filmed the urban area, where Evelyn stalks James, and then when James meets Sarah in the Diner.
Later, we also filmed the scene were Sarah gets arrested by Harry and then gets put in prison. We didn't have an actual Prison location to use, so instead we used a heavy wooden door with a little window in it, which in Black and White, looks reasonably like a Prison. If we were making this in the real Movie Industry, we would have organised a real Prison scene to make the movie more realistic.
Unfortunatly, we also didnt film during the night as we had first planned, this was due to the time-scale and availability of all our actors, and so we now do not have the Urban Area at Night scene that is so typical to Film Noir, which is a shame, but there was nothing we could do about it.
We also filmed Rosie reading out the News Readers lines so that we could use it later as a voiceover the scene where Sarah gets arrested. During editing, I think this will be very effective. The voice-over is also a very typical Film Noir feature!
Later, we also filmed the scene were Sarah gets arrested by Harry and then gets put in prison. We didn't have an actual Prison location to use, so instead we used a heavy wooden door with a little window in it, which in Black and White, looks reasonably like a Prison. If we were making this in the real Movie Industry, we would have organised a real Prison scene to make the movie more realistic.
Unfortunatly, we also didnt film during the night as we had first planned, this was due to the time-scale and availability of all our actors, and so we now do not have the Urban Area at Night scene that is so typical to Film Noir, which is a shame, but there was nothing we could do about it.
We also filmed Rosie reading out the News Readers lines so that we could use it later as a voiceover the scene where Sarah gets arrested. During editing, I think this will be very effective. The voice-over is also a very typical Film Noir feature!
Editing
We have now been editing our Film Noir for several weeks and we are ever so close to finishing. All we have to do now is add a little more music, and create the opening credits. Overall, our movie is just over 7 minutes long! I am really proud of our work, and I have really enjoyed editing our movie! I really look forward to finished it next week and being able to say "I have completed a 5 minute movie from start to end"
Here is a picture of me editing:
Here is a picture of me editing:
Here is a picture of Rosie editing:
Here is an example of the kind of thing we had to edit:
You have your clips on the left, you first edit in the middle and the final outcome on the right, with your timeline at the bottom.
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