Bianca's Weekly Review - 25th to 30th Jan

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Not much really...we have spent a lot of time this week replacing actors and rescheduling our filming time table which we were ment to do this week. It has been posponed to next week.

I have started looking at possible sound effects for post-production.

We filmed one of our scenes on Saturday...which was planned

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We planned to get our story board finished this week, but we have only started it: It's not complete.

Our week was more productive in general!

Plans for next week

As a group:

Storyboard
Filming

As an individual:

Trailer analysis
Research post-modernism

Posted by BIANCA GREEN

Anachronisms

Because our film will have elements of the film noir era mixed with elements of the 21st Century, it will be deliberately anachronistic. We can't have too many anachronisms in case they overshadow the 1940s elements, but we can't have too few or it will look accidental.

We should use anachronisms with:
1. Costume
2. Non diegetic music
3. Some props, but not all of them

We shouldn't use anachronisms with:
1. Hair and make up
2. Diegetic sounds (phone call)

Should we use anachronisms with the dialogue or should we keep it 1940s?

Posted by ASHA KABADEH

Lottery Funded Films

The brief states that out film has been funded by the lottery. I found a list of films that have been funded by the lottery. We should look at some of the trailers for these films in case there are differences to film trailers that are not funded by the lottery.

1. Strictly Sinatra
2. The Lost Son
3. Room To Rent
4. Bugs!
5. Bright Young Things
6. Republic of Love
7. Ratcatcher
8. Loves Labours Lost
9. There's Only One Jimmy Grimble
10. The Hole
11. Thunderpants
12. Girl with a Pearl Earring
13. Max
14. Natural History
15. Magic Roundabout

Posted by ASHA KABADEH

Sound Effect Sounds

Heartbeat Sound Effect
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eFn8Cgcx8g
Police Siren
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hXQMjjuNe0

Posted by BILAAL MUGHAL

Sound Effect Sounds

Telephone ring
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTMKb0cY2qY&feature=related
Cell gates shutting
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSjIJcoNH34

Posted by BIANCA GREEN

Bilaal Mughal's Tasks

1) Complete the Proposal on our ideas

2) Look at what is allowed and not allowed in the Prime Time productions

3) Secondary Audience profile

Posted by BILAAL MUGHAL

Possible Sound Effects

Yeah so I was watching The Bill today and well they played something in order to rise tension. Thought we could perhaps use it aswell as it would work well with our production. I'll try to recover that little clip but let me know what you think?

Other than that I think we should look into The Bill as they do tend to raise tension through their aspects of camera angles and perhaps we could use that to our advantages. We can relate it back to Film Noir codes and conventions as well.

I'll get a few other clips from youtube for the other sound effects we need.

Posted by BILAAL MUGHAL

Bianca Green's Tasks

Throughout the rest of this project, these are my tasks:

1. Focusing on locations- Where and taking pictures

2. Focusing on props and costumes

3. Primary audience profile

Posted by BIANCA GREEN

Possible Sound and Music for the Trailer

As a group we discussed possible sounds we wanted in our trailer.

Phone ringing
Heartbeat
Eerie sound effects
Face paced drum beats
Police sirens

If you have found any of them, post the link in a comment underneath.

Posted by BIANCA GREEN

Experimenting with lighting

We experimented with lighting in a film noir style using the tips from the videos I found. We found that the pictures came out very dark with little contrast. However, when I added a black and white edit, and played around with the brightness and contrast, I found it looked much better.

We have also looked into using advanced artifictal lighting in the scenes in the office to get the best low key lighting possible, as it is a convention we plan to go along with.

Posted by BIANCA GREEN