Film noir characters - there are certain main recognisable roles within film noir, for example;

The anti-hero - A hero who is striving for redemption from a troubled past

The Femme-Fatal - The sexy woman who knows what she wants and knows exactly how she is going to get it.

The villain - The evil guy, trying to get what he wants and doesn't care who he hurts along the way.

The girl next door - The innocent friend of the Anti hero, always willing to help and is usually always right the whole time.

These are your main basic characters that can be found in a film noir film.

Last night i was filming our second part of our footage with Jemma. there are only now a very few parts that we still currently need to film like both myself and our actor Maddi opening our hands covered in blood. I now also need to sort out the audio after i have finished editing like putting on the initial sounds t the beginning and music throughout.

With our editing we are able to do the bulk of it in school but there are parts of it that i will be taking home to further advance on the editing with my own software as it allows me to do more specific tasks than whilst at school. During the past week school has been shut due to the site being unsafe due to the wether, as most of our work is at school so this means i will need to put extra time in to assure that our work gets complete.

Fake blood

I will need to use fake blood for the filming in one of my scenes, one of the most effective ways i have seen to do this is by using corn starch and red food colouring.

What i need to film

I need to have footage filmed of me. the scenes that are required are; shots of me sitting in different angles, extreme close ups on my eye's, footage of me smoking and drinking and f my hands covered in blood.

Snow

Today my partner is not here so i cannot edit our video, i also have realized that it is currently snowing and is due to continue for the upcoming weeks, this has provided us with a difficult continuity error as we already have half of the filming done ( this was filmed in the day without snow), i now need to figure out a way to film the other half within short time so that it still works with the rest of the footage.

I went filming with Jemma for a couple of hours one day in the holiday to film for our final piece with the help of Maddi Seeley, a year 13 performing arts student who willingly agreed to play the part of the Femme-fatal for us. As we are doing parallel editing we need to film the safe clip twice ( one for each of the characters) so we have one out the way. When we go back to college me and Jemma are going to upload it and start to perform editing and any improvements that need to be done, after that we can see what has worked well and what hasn't so that when we film our other half we can make it even better and also to match the first segment of filming we have done.

When we were out filming all in all i think it went rather well, in one of the scenes a police car's sirens could be heard in the distance, we decided that this was a nice coincidence as it will help our film noir piece.

Despite the freezing cold wether conditions and my ability to try and keep focus i think we did a good job and filmed a sufficient amount of footage.

We have agreed that if we need more footage we can easily film other little bits around school or at our location.