First storyboards

Sound Planning (Dialogue, script)

Script examples:
Double Indemnity script
Naked City

"THE NAKED CITY" NARRATOR


                              (an easy, conversational tone)
                         "A city has many faces --

                         It's one o'clock in the morning now --

                         And this is the face of New York 
                         City --

                         -- when it's asleep --

                         -- on a hot summer night --

                         Does money ever sleep, I wonder?

                         Does a machine become tired?

                         Or a song?

                         Does stone ever feel weariness?"

Narration is used in both of these examples. We will use these to create our narration.

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Script Draft:

written by all of us in the group

Cal - Alex Colt (Anti-hero)

Ruby - Valentina (Femme Fatale)

Elliott - Bruce or Romeo (Villain) 

Timeline

Week beginning 6th January -  
Planning shoots, costumes, music, capture of photo images for photo storyboards


Week beginning 13th January -

filming, music finished, storyboards uploaded to blog, creating studio & production idents/screens


Week beginning 20th January - 

uploads of filming, editing and creation of raw footage / editing to complete the first 'cut', editing images - to produce first cuts ready for feedback


Week beginning 27th January - 
first focus group work (collect feedback from within the group & HY/MO) / re-editing / planning and completion of any reshoots / planning construction of sound


Week beginning 3rd February - 
construction of sound / titles / final edits of film OTS


Week beginning 10th February - 
exhibition and distribution of 'first cut' of final films shared on digital/social networks for the purpose of focus group feedback - use surveys/ questionnaires and allow time for feedback / work on Blogs to ensure all the above is evidenced: talking head, reflective note, production plans, slideshares.....


Week beginning 17th February = Half term - complete focus group research / complete Blogs / plan final improvements to productions in response to the feedback


Deadline for completed Research & Planning Blogs and First Drafts of Productions is the 28th February (Friday after half term)

Sound planning (Background music, context)

The origins of film noir music:


Origins of Film Noir from FilmmakerIQ.com on Vimeo.

Examples of music from film noir: 

http://parallax-view.org/2009/04/02/keeping-score-musique-noir-investigating-the-sound-of-film-noir/

8tracks.com/explore/film_noir‎
(I can't go on the website as the school has blocked it and I am making this post in school, but I will check the link when I'm at home)

Double Indemnity (1944) soundtrack:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036775/soundtrack

Music:

TANGERINE ~ Jimmy Dorsey & his Orchestra 1942

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2k0fAfInPA‎

02 - 1822 Schubert - Symphony No.8 in B minor, 'Unfinished'.mp3

We are planning to use audiotool to create our music as no one in our group can play musical instruments and it abides copyright laws. If you follow the link http://www.audiotool.com/user/fergiecal/templates/ you'll see two drafts, the song named "bad monday" was created by Cal, we are planning to use this song to base our music on. Cal will be improving and finishing "bad monday" for our OTS.

Our whole opening title sequence will use a small amount of dialogue. 

Costume and prop ideas

OTS Animatic

Ace animatic-Large from Cal Ives-Keeler on Vimeo.

We can improve by including a wider variety of camera angles, as most angles we use are mid shots. We could include more camera angles by using close ups of particular details for example, a close up of Elliott's cigarette as it is a typical convention of film noir. 
As we took the pictures in school the location isn't a typical convention of film noir, to improve we could of filmed in the city at night. 

Continuity Task

Night stab from Cal Ives-Keeler on Vimeo.

4 areas to cover

1. Health and safety definition

Consider actors health and safety, location, use of props and dress code.

Vision during filming, falling over, walking into things etc.

Risk assessment

2. Ethics definition

Responsibility vs. Rights and Wrongs

Managing people

3. Film Classifications definition

Links to audience

http://www.bbfc.co.uk/

Our film will include strong violence, frequent strong language and portrayals of sexual activity although not all o these will be in the OTS, so our film will be rated a 15.

4. Copyright definition

You can't use other peoples work, you can only use copyright free or original music. I must use evidence to prove it is original or copyright free.

OTS planning

My group, 'Pulse Productions' includes; me, Elliott and Cal

Producer: 'Pulse Productions'

Director: Cal

Camera operator: Elliott

Editor: Elliott

Costume/make up: Ruby

Lighting operator: Cal

Sound production: Ruby and Elliott

Special effects: Elliott

Prop manager: Cal

Casting: Group (Cal, Ruby, Elliott)

Cinematographer: Elliott

Foley artist: Ruby and Elliott
Script writer: Ruby and Elliott

As it's a small production we only need one camera so it is possible for the director to film whilst directing, however, we could always enlist help off people from different groups to help with filming if needed.

Locations: Cal's house

Actors: Elliott, Ruby, Cal (hopefully)

This list is somewhat accurate, however we will each partake in assisting each other with the creation of our opening title sequence project. 

Storyboard

Our first task was to create a story board which shows the plot of our OTS and also includes the camera angles that we have chosen for each shot. This story board was drawn by hand and also shows annotated notes of what is happening in each individual shot such as the lighting.

Animatic

Our next step was to create a photo animatic of our OTS. For this we took photographs of us acting out the OTS, just like how we decided we wanted it to look in our storyboard. Each photograph is basically a simple recreation of our drawings. We couldn't get each shot perfectly how we wanted it to be but we instead just changed some of the camera angles and lighting to make it work. From doing this we know we need to add more creative camera angles as we realised after making the animatic most angles are mid shots. Our animatic will either be uploaded to slide share or vimeo. 

Our next step of planning before filming the OTS will be to write the script. This will be a group effort so we can discuss as a group to involve everyones ideas and keep everyone happy.

What is Film Noir? extended

The ten basic rules of film noir from Gonzalo Cordero de Ciria on Vimeo.

Film Noir is a cinemtic term which was popular in the 1940's to late 1950's. The translation of film noir, is black film. Film noir began in Hollywood and the genre they included was mainly crime.

Definition links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_noir
http://www.essortment.com/search.htm?r=%2Ffilm-noir-definition-information-65487.html&q=film%20noir%20definition
http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Film_noir