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.