Sunday 7 December 2008

My film noir Synopsis

Synopsis:
In the questioning room at the police station a man is being questioned, this man is an ex cop who now works at a bar, as he is being questioned over the murder of a rich business man he reveals what really happens. One night at the bar and a mysterious and sexy woman enters the bar and flirts with the barman she talks to him about how badly her husband treats her and how she can’t leave him, when it comes to closing time she kisses the barman and he offers for her to stay at his to avoid an argument with her husband. At his she gets him drunk and he confesses how he has fallen for her but she says she’d feel the same if her husband wasn’t around and she tells him of how her husband is very rich and how he gives her nothing, the man says what a good idea it would be if her husband died and the woman innocently says how if he was murdered they would be caught knowing fully well that he used to be an cop and would know how to commit the perfect murder. Not knowing he has been lulled into a trap he says he knows a way to kill her husband and get away with it. After they have hatched a plan the woman goes home and her husband is waiting for her. the man shows up, she lets him in and locks the doors to the house he then kills her husband, she comes down stairs and see her husband dead and the man embraces her and rejoices in how they can now be together she then breaks down into tears and the police shows up, she rats him outs to the cops and as there is no proof that she was involved the man takes full responsibility as he is so in love with her he lets her get away knowing the police wouldn't believe his story anyway.
Detailed Synopsis of the opening
A dark questioning room a man is siting one side of a questioning table his head hanging looking at his feet, a detective on the other. The tape recorder is going and the detective says "we've got for his murder so you may as well tell us why you did it" the man then looks up from the ground and says "officer i'll tell you what happened it all started with a beautiful woman"
Rough Treatment
My opening sequence will be in black and white this will help to give it a dark and eerie feel making it more thriller/noiresque I'll use close ups of the man as he looks and and of the detective (shot-reverse-shot) There is a going to be a single window in the room covered by a venetion blind creating the typical noiresque type shadows and contrast between dark and light To make my scene contemporary i'm going to use a modern day recorder like the police use to record interviews When the man starts to tell the police what happened there will be a flashback and then his voice over will start this is another noir convention. I will also use backing music consisting of dark minor chords but it will only be quiet in the background.

Monday 1 December 2008

The Preliminary Excercise

To help us with our camera skill we were asked to do a preliminary excercise, which was a short scene with somone walking down a coridoor into a room. The upbove video is my groups production.

Evaluation
We followed the 180Degree line rule well and our idea was simple effect to try and covee. We had problems wwith the lighting the room when the main character dylan sits down so we used a black and white effect to try and cover this and there was also a fuzzy souund in the background. When Dylan enters the room the as this close up of the handle is wrong as you can bearly see dylans hand on the handle. The match on action is a bit of when Dylan is walking across the room as his posture and postition changes. we also had to cut from an OTS shot of Dylan talking while his hair was moving which makes the piece look messy as we didn't leave enough handles.