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.

http://asmediastudiesjemmarayner.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/fatal-paradox-moving-story-board.html

This is a link to Jemma's blog containing the sotryboards she drew up for out story.

Pitch

As a group me and Jemma both presented a pitch to our class of our idea for our film  'Fatal Attraction'. We had a presentation up on the screen and we both took turns in talking about the different sections of our film, like plot, mise-en-scene, costume etc. We had it filmed so i will also upload it to my blog although we are currently having issues uploading but we are working on it. I will also find a link to our prezzi on which we made the presentation.

Trying to come up with a name for our film noir, we gathered lots of classic film noir titles such as sunset boulevard, big sleep, fatal attraction, body heat, basic instinct, sin city, strangers on a train, the third man, the maltease falcon, touch of evil, the night of the hunter, the killing, the locket, white heat, big heat, spellbound, suspicion, red light, laura, a woman's secret, kiss me deadly, the postman always rings twice, the unsuspected, out of the past and killers kiss.

When trying to come up with out own name for out production we used the titles of others and we used influence from what our own is about and brainstormed different ideas to help create a new original.

We looked up the word mirror in a thesuras as the way we are filming and editing we will be using parralell editing, this creates the aspect of the mirror and used the words gathered from that and tried to tie them in with the other film titles that we already had to try and create one.

To be continued . . .

In our lessons we started watching a film and a tv series that are in the style of film noir; Mulholland drive (film) and The Red Riding Trilogy (t.v series).

The two typically main female roles in a film noir is the Femme Fatal - the dangerous woman who knows what she wants, and exactly how she's going to get it, and The Girl Next Door - typically your more kind caring girl who helps out when she can.

The essentail message of a film noir would be - Don't trust the femme fatal, go for the girl next door! This message can be said for nearly of film noir films.

In 'The Red Riding Trilogy' the things that made it typically film noir were the following; Smoking - hazey smoke filled room, the voice over from the anti hero, the end of the series was shown at the start, distopian - Dark/depressing and lots of framing/over the shoulder shots.

Film noir will almost always be set in big cities, Chicago or New York for example and will most likely always be dark or raining, or perhaps even both!

We didn't get to watch much of Mulholland Drive - the introduction consisted of a couple dancing but were repeated over the screen multiple times and also it also introduced The Girl Next Door.