Evaluation

Main Task - Film Noir Short Film

Main Task - Diary Entry 4

Danny, my partner, and I have now finished all of our production work and have already moved onto completing the post - production work, such as editing and evaluation. So far we have almost completely finished editing and only need to film my evaluation which will be completed tomorrow.

Main Task - Diary Entry 3

All of our pre-production is now completed and we have begun to organise the shooting location so it is ready for filming day on the 10th. So far I think me and my partner have managed to do very well working together as we have completely all of the tasks we need to and have worked very well together so far. I am looking forward to the filming days as it will be a good opportunity for me to try out the new skills I have learnt during the process of making this Film Noir and also put into practice the aims I set myself to achieve during the preliminary task as certain aspects of that task I believe I could of made better.

Main Task - Produciton - Recce

Below are all the images we took during our Recce of the locations we were going to be filming at. 

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Main Task - Production - Props and Costumes

Main Task - Production - Storyboard

Main Task - Diary Entry 2

Me and Danny have finished our Storyboard and Shot List and will begin filming on the 9th of March. We will be filming over 3 days so that we can perfect our shooting and be able to give the actors in our film the correct amount of time to prepare. After we have finsihed filming on the Sunday we will both then begin to prepare the editing of the film and also prep for the evaluation we will indiviually be recording.

Main Task - Shot List

Main Task - Production - Risk Assessment

Below is the risk assessment that was completed before filming and approved by my teacher, Mr.Woodcock

Main Task - Production - Chacracter Bio

Film Noir – Character Bio’s

Murder on 5^th Ave.

Jack

Name: Jack Craine

D.O.B: 4/9/1932

  - Jack is young, brash and bold. Even though an experienced man of the force now, he had achieved a high status within the NYPD very quickly because of his natural talent for the job. However, he is prone to becoming emotionally involved in cases and so can blind his judgement.

Marilyn

Name: Marilyn Clarke

D.O.B: 7/6/1933

-          Marilyn is the femme fatal. She is flirtatious, dangerous, classy and mysterious. Marilyn is the character who is in love jack (the detective) who is working on a case about Vito the crime lord (who Marilyn is working for). Marilyn cares for jack deeply, but however will lead to his eventual demise.  

Vito

Name: Vito alberto Mediecci

D.O.B: 17/5/1901

Sex: Male

 Vito is the crime lord New York. Vito is a malicious, ruthless and very shrewd gentleman. He has systematically gained control over the authorities of the city. He is the head a notorious gang known as the Mediecci family. His gang are currently in the middle of a huge drugs operation and has just been informed about Jack, an experienced detective who is tired and wants to the end on going corruption in the city. Vito became notorious for murdering his father to gain power within the hierarchy of the gang. He finally consolidated full control and responsibility in 1998 when he framed 3 leading members of the gang at a death scene. Since then he has transformed it into a brutal and unforgiving power gang of the city.       

Main Task - Production - Schedule

SHOOTING SCHEDULE

PRODUCTION		Murder on 5th Ave
RX DATE		9/3/2012 - 11/3/12
FILMING LOCATION 1:		EXT. STREET OUTSIDE HOUSE ON OWL END - NIGHT
FILMING LOCATION 2:		INT. HOUSE ON OWL END ROAD - NIGHT
CAST & CREW CALL TIME	17:00	CAST & CREW END TIME	21:00

Main Task - Production - Questionnaire

Film Noir Questionnaire

1)      What do you think of when you hear the word Film Noir?

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2)      What would your expectations for a Film Noir be?

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3)      What type of villains do you like to see in movies?

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4)      What sort of detective stories do you like?

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5)      What age range are you in?

12 - 16

17 - 21

22 - 31

32 - 41

42 - 51

52 - 61

62 - 71

71+

6)      What gender are you?

Male

Female

7)      Would you typically watch a film noir?

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I gave this questionnaire to 20 people. Most of them were friends from around school and some were my family and work collaegues. From the results that we achieved froom these questionnaires me and my partner were able to make a number of decisions about who are main target audience was and what style of Film Noir that we were looking at filming.

Our gender is going to be malesd and females
The age group for the production will be 16 - 20 as this is the age range that we will be shwoing our media product to.

Main Task - Diary Entry 1

Today, me and my partner Danny Duckworth have finished our final script and uploaded the rest of the draft scripts to the blog. We have also begun work on our storyboards, shot list, schedule and risk assessment. Once these are completed we will begin shooting our production. We have also completed our chatracter bios and props and costumes list which we will upload to the blog soon.

Main Task - Production - Script

FADE IN

1. EXT. 5th Avenue street - Night

Road sign reads 5TH AVENUE. We then see a SHADOWED man standing on the sidewalk. He is smoking a cigarette whilst leaning against the sign. Rain pours down on the man. Street lights illuminate the street. JACK turns to face the house then begins to walk towards the door.

 

2. int. house on 5th avenue street - night

Jack walks up the stairs and knocks on the door. No response. Knocks again and then enters.

JACK

Marilyn? You in here?

MARILYN appears from the corner of the room

MARILYN

(nervous)

Yes Jack I'm over here.

JACK

Good. I need to talk to you Marilyn. Right now

MARILYN

No Jack! You can't. It's all over, I knew that it would come to this.

Jack

Come to what?

MARILYN

This! He knows and now he want's you dead.

jack

(angry)

How does he know Marilyn?

MARILYN

That doesn't matter right now. All I know is he's not going to allow you to keep sniffing around like this.

jack

But I'm so close I know I can get him, if I can just get a little more time! I know I can.

marilyn

Jack he knows about you and that your looking for him. I knew this would happen eventually!

jack

Who is he? Marilyn you gotta tell me. I can put an end to this case!

MARILYN

Vito. 

VITO is shown blacked out standing in far corner of room. Cigar in mouth

MARILYN

He wants you dead. You're going nowhere now Jack. It's all over for you, just give up.

JACK turns around and walks over to the fire ledge and rest his head in one hand. He sighs.

MARILYN

(angry)

Jack!

Jack

Turns around and shouts at Marilyn

Why the hell are you saying this Marilyn?! How do you and him know about the damn case!?

Begins pacing back and forth with long strides looking confused and angry.

MARILYN

Jack! Stop a second.

He stands still and turns to face MARILYN

MARILYN walks over to Jack and whispers in his ear

Jack please stop this, he's making me do it. I love you...

She pulls out a gun and shoots Jack

JACK drops to his knees, staring at the VITO who's cigar illuminates his face as JACK falls to the floor.

FADE OUT

Main Task - Production - Draft Scripts - Draft Three

Fade in

1. EXt. 5th Avenue street - Night

Road sign reads 5TH AVENUE. We then see a SHADOWED man standing on the sidewalk. He is smoking a cigarette whilst leaning against the sign. Rain pours down on the man. Street lights illuminate the street. JACK turns to face the house then begins to walk towards the door.

2. int. house on 5th avenue street - night

Jack walks up the stairs and knocks on the door. No response. Knocks again and then enters.

JACK

Marilyn? You in here?

MARILYN appears from the corner of the room

MARILYN

(nervous)

Yes Jack I'm over here.

JACK

Good. I need to talk to you Marilyn. Right now

MARILYN

No Jack! You can't. It's all over, I knew that it would come to this.

Jack

Come to what?

MARILYN

This! He knows and now he want's you dead.

jack

(angry)

How does he know.. Marilyn?

MARILYN

That doesn't matter right now. All I know is he's not going to allow you to keep sniffing around like this.

jack

But I'm so close I know I can get him, if I can just get a little more time! I know I can.

marilyn

Jack he knows about you and that your looking for him. I knew this would happen eventually!

jack

Who is he? Marilyn you gotta tell me. I can put an end to this case!

MARILYN

Vito. 

VITO is shown blacked out standing in far corner of room. Cigar in mouth

MARILYN

He wants you dead. You're going nowhere now Jack. It's all over for you, just give up.

JACK turns around and walks over to the fire ledge and rest his head in one hand. He sighs.

MARILYN

(angry)

Jack!

Jack

Turns around and shouts at Marilyn

Why the hell are you saying this Marilyn?! How do you and him know about the damn case!?

Begins pacing back and forth with long strides looking confused and angry.

MARILYN

Jack! Stop a second.

He stands still and turns to face MARILYN

MARILYN walks over to Jack and whispers in his ear

Jack please stop this, he's making me do it. I love you...

She pulls out a gun and shoots Jack

JACK drops to his knees, staring at the VITO who's cigar illuminates his face as JACK falls to the floor.

FADE out

Main Task - Production - Draft Scripts - Draft Two

1. EXt. 5th Avenue street - Night

Road sign reads 5TH AVENUE. We then see a SHADOWED man standing on the sidewalk. He is smoking a cigarette whilst leaning against the sign. Rain pours down on the man. Street lights illuminate the street. JACK turns to face the house then begins to walk towards the door.

2. int. house on 5th avenue street - night

Jack walks up the stairs and knocks on the door. No response. Knocks again and then enters.

JACK

Marilyn? You in here?

MARILYN appears from the corner of the room

MARILYN

(nervous)

Yes Jack I'm over here.

JACK

Good. I need to talk to you Marilyn. Right now

MARILYN

No Jack! You can't. It's all over, I knew that it would come to this.

Jack

Come to what?

MARILYN

This! He knows and now he want's you dead.

jack

(angry)

How does he know.. Marilyn?

MARILYN

That doesn't matter right now. All I know is he's not going to allow you to keep sniffing around like this.

jack

But I'm so close I know I can get him, if I can just get a little more time! I know I can.

marilyn

Jack he knows about you and that your looking for him. I knew this would happen eventually!

jack

Who is he? Marilyn you gotta tell me. I can put an end to this case!

MARILYN

Vito. 

VITO is shown blacked out standing in far corner of room. Cigar in mouth

MARILYN

He wants you dead. Your going nowhere now Jack. Its all over for you, just give up.

JACK turns around and walks over to the fire ledge and rest his head in one hand. He sighs.

MARILYN

(angry)

Jack!

Jack

Turns around and shouts at Marilyn

Why the hell are you saying this Marilyn?! How do you and him know about the damn case!?

Begins pacing back and forth with long strides looking confused and angry.

MARILYN

Jack! Stop a second.

He stands still and turns to face MARILYN

MARILYN walks over to Jack and whispers in his ear

I love you...

She pulls out a gun and shoots Jack

JACK drops to his knees, staring at the VITO who's cigar illuminates his face as JACK falls to the floor.

FADE out

Main Task - Production - Draft Scripts - Draft One

EXt. 5th Avenue street - Night

Road sign reads 5TH AVENUE. We then see a SHADOWED man standing on the sidewalk. He is smoking a CIGARETTE whilst leaning against the sign. RAIN pours down on the man. Street lights illuminate the street.

jack

Jacks walks up the stairs.knocks on door. no response knocks again then enters.

Marilyn? You in here?

Marilyn

I'm sorry Jack. I never thought it would come to this.

Jack

Come to what?

MARILYN

Is time Jack. he wont allow you to keep sniffing around like this.

jack

But I'm so close I know I can get him, if I get just a little more time.

marilyn

He knows though Jack! I knew it would come to this eventually

jack

Who knows?

MARILYN

Villain.

VILLAIN is shown blacked out standing in far corner of room. Cigar in mouth

MARILYN

He wants you dead, he wont let you leave you know.

Jack

Turns around and walks over to the fire ledge nad rest his head in one hand. He sighs.

(Angry)

MARILYN

Jack...

Jack

He turns around and shouts at Marilyn

Why are you saying this?! how do you know about the case?

MARILYN

She walks over to jack and whispers in his ear

I love you

Main Task - Production

In todays lesson we learnt and discussed the Three Point Lighting. This ligting set up contains three style of lights. These are known as;

1. The Key Light
2. The Fill Light
3. The Back Light

The key light is the strongest light used and is normally placed on the right hand side of the camera.

The Fill lgiht is the second light used, after the key light and is slightly softer lighting. To achieve softer lighting we can use either gels or the scrim.

The back light is the third, and final light that can be used in this setup. This involves having the key and fill light being set up, and when in place the back lgiht will create a near triangle shape with the other lights.

By using this effect we can produce many differnet atmospheres and can lgiht are actors in a variety of different ways depending on how we wish to portray them in the shot.
During the lesson we showed these different lighting effects and took pictures which I shall upload to the blog as soon as possible to show you.

Main Task - Similar Products

This film noir movie posterr is taken from the 1946 film, 'The Dark Corner'

This movie poster is taken from the 1958 film, 'Touch of Evil'

This film noir movie poster is taken form the 1941 moive, 'The Maltese Falcon'

Above are three posters from FIlm Noir movies. These three posters are very helpful in determining what a film noir is going to be like as they show a lot about the characters naqd the atmosphere in the films they are representing. These posters are all in colours which shows a contrast against the blacvk and white film that they are produced for. They are also all cartoon images not computer generated or photographs showing the time period in which they came from and there connection to the film.

Film Noir Task - My Team

For the main task, which is on Film Noir, I have choosen to work with Danny Duckworth. We have already come up with a large number of ideas for the task and I will be posting copies of these ideas onto the blog soon. I believe that we will work very well together and that the Film Noir task will be very succesful for us.

Main Task - Similar Products

Film Noir Opening Scene - From the film 'Danger Signal'

Film Noir Opening Scene - From the film 'Bodyguard'

Film Noir Opening Scene - From the film 'The Killers'

All three of these Film Noir movie opening secquences contain almost all of the same conventions that a normal film noir has within it. 

Similar Products - Film Noir, What Is It?

A style or genre of cinematographic film marked by a mood of pessimism, fatalism, and menace. The term was originally applied (by a group of French critics) to American thriller or detective films made in the period 1944–54 and to the work of directors such as Orson Welles, Fritz Lang, and Billy Wilder.

Conventions:

• Corrupt cops
• Alienated protaginist
• Misogynistic men
• Femme Fatale
• Low key lighting
• Shadows cast by venetian blinds
• Dutch angles
• Low angle shots
• Wide angle lenses
• Character reflections
• Night time filming
• 1940 locations
• Dark sidewalks
• Guns
• Cigarettes
• Flashing neon signs
• Alcohol
• Rain drecnched streets
• Urban setting
• Bars
• Lounges
• Nightclub's
• Gambling dens
• Industrial settings
• Flashbacks

Film Noir Movies:

• High Sierra - 1941
• Among The Living - 1941
• The Fallen Sparrow - 1943
• The Man from Colorado - 1948
• A Kiss Before Dying - 1956