January 25th- My group for the film noir task is me, Caitlyn and Katie. We discussed some ideas for what we could do for our film noir and put our ideas down on a mindmap. The ideas were things like what conventions we could include in our film noir such as the storylines and types of locations and charecters and props. We discussed some of the possible locations we could use to shoot our film. We agreed on our roles for the production; Caitlyn would be director, Katie would be cameraman and I would be editor. I have never done editing before so i thought this would be a good chance to do that.
February 2nd- We finished off the first draft of our script and read it out to the rest of the class. Once we had read it out, we then got some feedback from our class, what they thought was good and things that could be improved. We found this very helpful, as it improved our script, but there wasn't a lot for us to change. One thing we did change was some of the charecter names because they did not fit the conventions of film noir. We also put an advertisement up on a website called http://www.castingcallpro.com/ for actors to respond to if they were interested in being part of our production.
March 2nd- We booked the cameras out and planned to film our production on Tuesday 6th March. We had all the locations sorted that we were going to use and how everyone is going to get there. Also all our actors and props are sorted as well as charecter costumes.
March 6th- We started filming at 7pm, we decided to film at this time because it was dark and we thought this would fit into the film noir conventions. However, this proved to be a lot harder then we thought, because it was dark, we needed some light so we tried to use torches as the lights are not to be used outside, but when we looked back at the footage, we found that this hadn't worked very well at all. Also it was very cold, so this made everyone eager to get it done quick, which resulted in sloppy filming. Another thing we didn't notice was continuation. A few times we were caught out on this. I think to improve, we should have planned our filming a lot more, and made sure we had plenty of time to do it so we didn't feel rushed to get it done.
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