Preliminary Task

Main Task - Scarlet Avenue Evaluation

Main Task - Scarlet Avenue

Main Task - Post Productions

I have edited a rough 'revised cut' which is about the right length and the right footage that we want. I'm now going to work with Alexander to add titles, music, sound effects etc. The next edit should be the finished film.

Main Task - Post Production

I have created a First Draft of our film, this is the all of the, roughly, 6 minutes worth of footage we took. I plan to talk to Alexander to decide which parts we keep and which to cut out to improve it.

Main Task - Props and Costumes

Guns are very often seen in Film Noirs.

 

This picture shows the style of clothing commonly seen.

 

Below, shows a typical detective costume.

Main Task- Character Bios

Wayne Farrow

Farrow is our Detective in Scarlet Avenue. He is confident, yet secretive, distinguished and professional.

Johnny Rodrigues

Rodrigues is our 'Henchman', brash and sly and often unwilling to do what is asked of him.

Esme Knight

The femme fatale of the film. A sleek and provocative character, very attractive, mysterious and seductive.

Film Noir Plots

The Big Sleep

Private-eye Philip Marlowe is hired to keep an eye on General Sternwood's youngest daughter, Carmen, who has fallen into bad company and is likely to do some damage to herself and her family before long. He soon finds himself falling in love with her older sister, Vivien, who initially takes a deep dislike to Mr Marlowe. However, the plot thickens when murder follows murder... Written by Graeme Roy <gsr@cbmamiga.demon.co.uk>

The Blue Dahlia 

When Johnny comes home from the navy he finds his wife Helen kissing her substitute boyfriend Eddie, the owner of the Blue Dahlia nightclub. Helen admits her drunkenness caused their son's death. He pulls a gun on her but decides she's not worth it. Later, Helen is found dead and Johnny is the prime suspect. Written by Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>

Main Task - Shoot Day

Main Task

We found an office we we found an office we could hire for the day near to our primary shooting location. This was necessary as we were having actors come from a long way to film. This meant we had a base at which we could all meet in one place, rehearse lines and have lunch. 

Main Task - Recce Photos

Main Task - Actor Permission Form

Actor Actress Permission Form 2

Main Task - Actors

Paul Alexander Scott Resume Starnow

Main Task - Casting Post

This is the post we have put onto Casting Call Pro. 

Main Task - Characters

Main Task - Shot List

Shot List

Main Task - Risk Assessments

Andy Self Storage Risk Assessment

Askew's Lane Risk Assessment

Main Task - Productions Schedule

Production Schedule

Main Task - Final Script

Final Script

Main Task - Storyboard

Target Audience Research - Results

The most useful of questions I asked was what came to mind when they thought of the film noir genre and therefore I have found out what people expect from a Film Noir.

This is helpful as I can see what we should include in our Film Noir. Black and White is obviously expected with 75% of the people agreeing. Detectives, Murders, Crimes and a 'Bad Guy' all had more than 20% of people thinking of Film Noir. Therefore I shall try and get all these aspects into our Film Noir.

Target Audience Research - Questionnaire

Film Noir Target Audience Research Questionnaire

Main Task - Production Script

Production Script

Draft 1

This is the first draft of our script.

Year 12 Preliminary Task - Poster

Preliminary Task - Video & Evaluation

Year 12 Preliminary Task - Filming

I felt the filming went very well despite only managing to get actors at quite short notice as we were let down by others. Due to this the filming took us longer than expected as they weren't familiar with their lines and we had to repeat shots several times. Together with our limited filming window, this meant that I was not too happy with the quality of the footage we got as we had to rush to get everything we needed. However, overall I am pleased with what we filmed, considering the extremely short time we had to film in.

Preliminary Task - Camera Skills

"What are the benefits of using a tripod and shooting multi-camera?"


The main difference between shooting single and multi-camera is that multi-camera uses two or more cameras. This means that it is possible to shoot a variety of angles simultaneously.


With single camera production, it is only possible to shoot one angle at a time. Shooting with multiple cameras means that by shooting multiple angles it is possible to save time. Also, shooting like this can help reduce continuity errors as it is possible to shoot a whole scene in one take.


Shooting multi-camera can also save time in post-production as it is possible for the editor to easily find a certain shot or angle if they know what camera it was filmed on. Also, most editing software have an ability to sync all of the cameras used together, viewing them all at the same time and then editing by simply selecting each camera. This can obviously save lots of time.

Preliminary Task - Team work

I feel we have worked very well as a team. We both had different ideas and we managed to work together to merge them into one which we both approve of. We are sharing responsibilities between us, for example with the script, Danny wrote the first draft and then we worked together to cut some parts out and add others we wanted. We have also worked together to solve problems such as finding actors and locations, and changing the script around these changes.

Preliminary Task - Script

Preliminary Task - Script

Danny wrote the first draft of the script, we then worked together to finish it to a level we were both pleased with.

Screenplay

Preliminary Task - Storyboard

Preliminary Task - Our Idea

Our task is as follows:

'Continuity task involving filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom she/he then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue.'

Our task should demonstrate match on match action, shot/reverse shot and the 180 degree rule.

We also have to create an A3 movie poster using photoshop.

We then have evaluate our work in a podcast.

These are our deadlines:

Pre-Production - November 18th
Production Window - 19th November - 26th Nobembr
Post Production - 27th November - 12th December
Presentation Day - 15th December

Preliminary Task - Team

Working with me in my Preliminary Task is Danny Duckworth.

We started thinking of ideas and decided that we wanted to do a hostage scene quite quickly. As we knew this we started researching and looked at similar scenes in a few short films to give us ideas.