FINAL PROJECTS

PRELIMINARY TASK

FINAL TASK 



FINAL TASK - EVALUATION

FILM NOIR - RESEARCH

Film Noir Research

Production Log - Post Production

We decided to do our editing at home, as we thought it would be easier to do it there in one go, rather then it sections as we would be forced to at school. Also since we had used my own camera, it seemed to make sense to do the editing at home.

After watching through all the clips we made the decision to abandon some of the shots, firstly as they were not well enough lit, secondly, the film had to be restricted to 2 minutes, meaning we would have to cut down the shots considerably, or lose some less important shots entirely.Losing the shots we have doesn't effect the story of the film, and there was no comments after the first showing to an audience about it not making sense, so I think this was the right decision.

We have used three separate pieces of music, along with some sound effects (a siren for example) that although are not essential to the movie, give it a more believable feel and further enhances the tone we are trying to create.

After the first edit showing it was clear that we had to re-lighten some shots of our femme fatale, change the order of our credits and tighten up the voice over. With these suggestions, we will return to our film, make the enhancements and hopefully improve our film.

Film Noir - Above The Law - Location Photographs

These photos show where we plan to shoot Above The Law. In the shoot we will move the sofa and tree, out of shot.

 

This is where we plan to set up the main light source, atop the steps that can be seen here.

There are a few modern items which need to be moved and hidden from shot, for example, these speakers.

This is the rest of the room, which will be hidden from the viewer.

The location is my house in Conington. We have chose this location mainly because of the furniture, which matches the 1950's era which our film is set in. The setting is also practical to our script, the furniture allows the two characters to face each other as they sit, and also the cabinet allows for the femme fatale to take out the whiskey glasses and whiskey in the fashion which we intended.  

Film Noir - Above The Law - First Draft

Film Noir - Main Task - Risk Assessment

BBC Risk Assessment Form

PRELIMINARY TASK - DIARY ENTRY

The preliminary task didn't go exactly as was planned. The first issue was with uploading the footage, I did this incorrectly and lost of time trying to correct this error. I did recover the footage, but once I had done this it was apparent that several shots that we filmed were missing, and the camera had already be wiped by the time we went back to it. This wouldn't have been a massive issue, as we could edit what footage we did have into a reasonable film which met the filming criteria fairly well, but there was an issue with sound - as in some clips were missing any sound whatsoever. To get around this we had to re-dub the sound by getting our actors to return and read the lines once more. This worked fairly well but the film was far from perfect.

Positively, we did meet the filming criteria (the 180 degree rule was obeyed for example) and the fact we made a film at all was quite an achievement after all the difficulty we ran into. I learned a lot from the experience, and hopefully all the mistakes we made in the making of this task, will mean we don't make them again in the main task, which will hopefully benefit from what we learned from our mistakes in the preliminary task.