Evaluation....

Evaluation Of Our OTS for Film Noir... on Prezi

our OTS

Untitled from SCHS TV on Vimeo.

Audience feed back.

miss moore told us that we needed to add a small over voice to a section to our ots to make the scene make more sense than it did before the corrections were made.

this is the sheet of improvements we had people complete for us.

A class mate assessing our work

analysing conventions of location and character in film noir

Film Noir, representation of characters and locations. on Prezi

analysing conventions of representation

http://prezi.com/qm4flaphs6jo/film-noir-representation-of-characters-and-locations/

conventions of film noir key words

the characteristics of film noir are made tp make you feel or look at a person like melancholy, alienation, bleakness, disillusionment, disenchantment, pessimism, ambiguity, moral corruption, evil, guilt, desperation and paranoia.

genre quotation

Film Noir (literally 'black film or cinema') was coined by French film critics (first by Nino Frank in 1946) who noticed the trend of how 'dark', downbeat and black the looks and themes were of many American crime and detective films released in France to theatres following the war, such as The Maltese Falcon (1941), Murder, My Sweet (1944), Double Indemnity (1944), The Woman in the Window (1944), and Laura (1944). A wide range of films reflected the resultant tensions and insecurities of the time period, and counter-balanced the optimism of Hollywood's musicals and comedies. Fear, mistrust, bleakness, loss of innocence, despair and paranoia are readily evident in noir, reflecting the 'chilly' Cold War period when the threat of nuclear annihilation was ever-present. The criminal, violent, misogynistic, hard-boiled, or greedy perspectives of anti-heroes in film noir were a metaphoric symptom of society's evils, with a strong undercurrent of moral conflict, purposelessness and sense of injustice. There were rarely happy or optimistic endings in noirs.




Classic film noir developed during and after World War II, taking advantage of the post-war ambience of anxiety, pessimism, and suspicion. It was a style of black and white American films that first evolved in the 1940s, became prominent in the post-war era, and lasted in a classic "Golden Age" period until about 1960 (marked by the 'last' film of the classic film noir era, Orson Welles' Touch of Evil (1958)).



Important Note: Strictly speaking, film noir is not a genre, but rather the mood, style, point-of-view, or tone of a film. It is also helpful to realize that 'film noir' usually refers to a distinct historical period of film history - the decade of film-making after World War II, similar to the German Expressionism or the French New Wave periods. However, it was labeled as such only after the classic period - early noir film-makers didn't even use the film designation (as they would the labels "western" or "musical"), and were not conscious that their films would be labeled noirs.

i found this quote usefull to help me understand the history of Film Noir

Very often, a film noir story was developed around a cynical, hard-hearted, disillusioned male character [e.g., Robert Mitchum, Fred MacMurray, or Humphrey Bogart] who encountered a beautiful but promiscuous, amoral, double-dealing and seductive femme fatale [e.g., Mary Astor, Veronica Lake, Jane Greer, Barbara Stanwyck, or Lana Turner]. She would use her feminine wiles and come-hither sexuality to manipulate him into becoming the fall guy - often following a murder. After a betrayal or double-cross, she was frequently destroyed as well, often at the cost of the hero's life. As women during the war period were given new-found independence and better job-earning power in the homeland during the war, they would suffer -- on the screen -- in these films of the 40s.


http://www.filmsite.org/filmnoir.html

research; distribution of film

films can be Distributed by many different ways,
-streaming
~streaming is where the film is sent via Internet to a television or console, this is done by such retailers such as netfilx, lovefilm. these are now becoming a big money way of selling film to the captive audience. Over these retailers you rent the film for so long which is streamed to your device, this is the more modern way to rent over going out to your local Blockbuster and physically renting the film, this way you do not have to leave the house to rent or return.
~streaming is also a bad thing it can be stolen through illigal downloading, this is becoming more and more of a problem to film makes such as Warner and Warp films.
-socail networking is free advertising to the film producers, this allows them to advertise up and comming films, the users of facebook (over 845 million active users) will comment on the film to there friends unintentionally advertising there film to others.

www.indiemoviesonline.com/
http://www.lovefilm.com/
http://www.netfilx.com/

Sound - and understanding how to use it...

My initial thaughts on using sound in film, my initial thaughts on using sound are that hey use sound in diagetic and non diagetic ways. Diagetic sound is the dialouge, and sounds filmed whilst the film scenes are being filmed. They use non-diagetic sounds to emphisise certian aspects of the film and to make us focus on the dialogue or the sound being emphisised these sounds can range from emphisised sounds or the sound of the wind, guns, explosions. The sound must also be syncronised to the film so they voices match and the sounds are in the correct timing with the film.

production meeting...

Dillan and I had a meeting to discuss which parts of the film we still needed to film, we have made a lot of film but the final cut we believe is still to short we need to find a way to keep the suspense and tension but yet extend our draft edit to the 2 minute mark.

- we still need to find the music for the background.
- find out our foleing echniques for or extract.

We learnt that our film is very hard to film, knowing what to film with out making it repetitive and boring.
 

PLANNING understanding the assessment criteria

RESEARCH & PLANNING
Level 3 12–15 marks


• There is proficient research into similar products and a potential target audience.
I have analysed Se7en and whitechapel to understand representation and style

• There is proficient organisation of actors, locations, costumes or props.
as producers Dillan and I have looked at the most effective props which will effect the audience. The weapons which the producers have chosen effect the audience enough to effect them and create a feeling of suspence and horror. We think that the following items will have this (effetct) on our TA

• There is proficient work on shotlists, layouts, drafting, scripting or storyboarding.

• Time management is good.

• There is proficient use of digital technology or ICT in the presentation

VIDEO
Level 3 36–47 marks


There is evidence of proficiency in the creative use of many of the following technical skills:

• holding a shot steady, where appropriate;

• framing a shot, including and excluding elements as appropriate;

• using a variety of shot distances as appropriate;

• shooting material appropriate to the task set;

• selecting mise-en-scène including colour, figure, lighting, objects and setting;

• editing so that meaning is apparent to the viewer;

• using varied shot transitions and other effects selectively and appropriately for the task set;

• using sound with images and editing appropriately for the task set;

• using titles appropriately.
 
EVALUATION
Level 3 12–15 marks


• There is proficient understanding of the forms and conventions used in the productions.

• There is proficient understanding of the role and use of new media in various stages of the production.

• There is proficient understanding of the combination of main product and ancillary texts.

• There is proficient understanding of the significance of audience feedback.

• There is proficient skill in choice of form in which to present the evaluation.

• There is proficient ability to communicate.

• There is proficient use of digital technology or ICT in the presentation.

analasis of how our film noir is going and our aim.

Audience - our market research into audience preferences signified/indicated that our target audience would enjoy supense and having an enigma in the OTS. We have designed our OTS to deliver this. Producing an animatice helped us to plan how to effectively video the extract itself. This structure means that our OTs has a high potential of enganing the attention of our TA

representation -
genre
industry.

i think that our OTS idea could go really well and has a very high potential, although it could go really wrong as the editing and filming side of the OTS is very complex and alot of shots involved at a high pace.

storyboard animatic...

story board animatic from Ryan Fisher on Vimeo.

We chose to put our storyboard into an animatic because it shows the story in more depth. it allows the pictures (shots) to flow a lot easier. We also thaught this way of seeing the storyboard makes it more real and easier to watch (interesting).

me and dillan experimenting with foleying

foleying, by ryanfisher and dillan corder from Ryan Fisher on Vimeo.

me and dillan producing our storyboard...

This is an activity of storyboarding, me and Dillan chose to do a storyboard, this enabled us to see how we wanted our OTS to appear. We chose to do our drafting this way because it enabled us to be able to try different angles and effects by moving the post its around. We were able to choose the props we wanted to use, costume and locations of which we thought that would allow us to get the mood of our OTS out to the consumer. This way of doing our storyboard enabled of us to do an animatic, we thought this would be a effective way of showing our OTS through pictures. his experiment allowed us to  see what way of storyboarding was more effective we found that post it noting the storyboard allowed us to use our time more wisely because we didn't have to keep redrawing our storyboard every time we could just move the pictures around each time. we believe that this way of presenting our storyboard is how we believe that they may do it in the film industry this way.

NEXT STEP: We want to add sound (voice over) to our animatic to allow the viewer to see and here more clearly what our idea of our OTS will be.

research; planning locations.

this is the studio, we are planning to use this for any dialogue or sounds because it will be relatively quiet.

 this is the dark room we will use this room to film the OTS because we can use the table with dim coloured lighting.

actors...

me and dillan will be the directors of our OTS, we are hoping to get friends of ours to act in our OTS.

location...

we are unsure as of yet the location. we are using the darkroom at the moment for the darkness required for  the gloomy setting we need for our OTS.

I am researching other public places, one of my ideas is the forum up the city at night it has the right light to shoot shuttered light and produce a abstract idea, to make us seem like this is the only action and people in the world.

props...

The props we are using are 
pencils: we can use this for our copycat version of seven to Set the mood with the led being moulded in to the paper. This will be used to develop shots in to looking at evidence sheets and case reports.

Meat cleaver: this will be our murder weapon and also used for eye line intimate shots to make the audience feel the intense situation.

Sickle: This will just be for show and will be sharpened within the extract to signify to the audience the gravity of the interrogation.

Cigarettes: conventionally cigarettes in a modern film signify an antagonist or an anti-hero the hero never smokes this is the opposite to traditional film noir. Use of a cigarette in our OTS will signify to the audience the character is not a good person.

razor blade/scalpel: This will be used to make the audience to feel uncomfortable our research indicated that most people felt nervous when people are handling naked blades. 

Using all of these props in our OTS is likely to create a sense of discomfort in our audience and build tension which will set the mood for the rest of the film. We would quite like to give the impression of cutting someones throat so we will have to explore outside resources, our teacher suggested a pigs head so we will see if that is possible.

production meeting

in mine and dillans production meeting we decided that I was going to focus on doing the story board of SEVEN.1 and dillan is going to focus on detailig an form of improvement or movement in our OTS i am developing the case for ur film wih sketches and demo dvd cases so far. For the story board is is hard to know what I as a student am alowed to bring into the lesson, such as props, te props we need for our OTS are illigal to carry around as they could harm others. the props we need are knives, pens/pencils, meat clever and a scythe these props will have to go straight into a locked office so te cannot cause harm to students who are unaware cannot arm themselves or others.

micro essay on copyright issues...

Copyright...

copy right law and copy right originated in the UK from a concept of common law ; the statute of Anne 1709. 

Types of work which copyright applies:

literary: song lyrics, manuscripts, manuals, computer programs, commercial documents, leaflets, newsletters & articles etc.

dramatic: plays, dance

musical: recordings and score.

Artistic: photography, painting, sculptures, architecture, technical drawings/diagrams, maps, logos

Typographical arrangement of published editions: magazines, periodicals

sound recording:may be recordings of other copyright works, e.g. musical and literary.
films
broadcasting and cable program's 


rights of copyrights:

Copyright is an automatic right and arises whenever an individual or company creates a work. To qualify, a work should be regarded as original, and exhibit a degree of labor, skill or judgment.
the copy right law means that any body found to have taken a picture or sound from any body who has not given permission you could be sued by the owning party. it is to the extent that any photo of Google with out copyright con cent cannot be taken with out giving recognition to the owner such as the url.
It is an offence to perform any of the following acts without the consent of the owner:
Copy the work.rent, lend or issue copies of the work to the public.Perform, broadcast or show the work in public.Adapt the work.The author of a work, or a director of a film may also have certain moral rights. The right to be identified as the author.Right to object to derogatory treatment.

mirco essay on foleying....

Foleying is the art of being able to create sounds with objects other than what they should actually made by, such as coconuts hitting on sand for horse steps.

Some foleying machines have to be handmade but other some foleying objects can be found in shops they purvey percussion instruments.  Any object from anywhere can be used to make an alternative sound.

Here are some examples of basic foley kit:

wind machine

rain box

marching men object. 

Wind machine: A sheet of canvas over a revolving drum of wooden slats. The fierceness of the wind is determined by the speed of the revolution. The drum it turned unevenly, for wind never blows at a consistent speed. Adjusting the tension of the canvas as its free end can also alter the sound.

Rain box: 2 wooden boxes 6’x6”x6”, the floors of which are studded with nails hammered up from the outside. Dried peas inside, the two boxes are then see-sawed to create the sound of rain.

Marching men: identical wooden pegs fastened to a frame at the top by flexible or elastic bands, so the pegs hand down, when held by the frame and plopped rhythmically on a hard surface.

The bat and melon ploy: for head traumas they use a melon, when hit hard with a baseball bat or a mallet when you need to bash in somebody's skull. In live performance, a watermelon is more visually impressive than any other kind.

They use foleying because it is allows you to add in diagetic sounds after you have filmed the scene because some diagetic sounds are louder than the voices, or the sound the director/writer wants you to hear.

notes on neo noir...

'Blade Runner'
typical things to expect from noir films...

• most people were smoking.
• chiaroscuro lighting, dark and dull lights. 
• sepia filter, monochrome, similar colours, yellows browns.
• narration from main charicter,
• chrime reporter, anti hero.

untypical things to expect from noir films...

• guitar based bacl in sounds, in other noirs it is a violin for more suspence,
• usually set in urban areas (citys)
• shows blood
• more camera angles.

Mullholland Drive...
typical things to see in a noir film...

• smoking
• slow transitions
• femme fatale was strong now seems week and scared
• lots of shadows
• urban area

untypical things to see in a noir film... 

• no male antihero just two femme fatalles.

Foleying...

SoundWorks Collection: Gary Hecker - Veteran Foley Artist from Michael Coleman on Vimeo.

se7en OTS

Se7en from Brian Kornic on Vimeo.

Ideas for my OTS and sound...

i would like to do my OTS being similar to the 1995 film Se7en. I found that the film Se7en really inspired how I wanted to do my OTS because it was deep, and gets stuck in your head, its very powerfull and captures your imagination.

I would like to do a OTS of the style of the film Se7en,

• Dark,
• Dim coloured lighting,
• No faces just hands,
• Screeching sounds,
• Heartbeats,
• Violent objects in the hands, blood on the weapons,
• Flashing between each shot,
• Desaturated colour only red for blood,
• neck sliced with old rusty meat cleaver(relevance to the killers past(copycat murder?) blood splatters over camera and flashes away.
• i would like the scene to cut away from the hands to a scratching, flicked image(white chappel tv programme uses this and it creates major suspence, and makes you fell drawn as the flicks increase in speed the muder happens?)

i realise that this idea is very ambitious and would need alot of foleying, asyncronous sound and it would be hard to match the sound to the film, it is worrying that the film may not look professional and not flow together.

i would need these images and sounds for...

• Sliced neck,
• Scratching,
• Scraping of metal(delicate)
• Screams
• Deep dark beats laying over the film ots
• books dropping
• paper ripping,
• slicing the watermelon for neck
• paint for the blood over clear plastic in front of the camera.

finding the correct props for this OTS will be hard as i will need old rusted murder weapons such as meet cleavers and garden tools....

over the next 6 weeks i will be posting how i will progress with this idea... 

sound - and understand how to use it...

my initial thaughts about using sound in film, there is not diagetic sound which is sound added into the film extract after the scene has been filmed such as gun sounds, there is also diagetic sound which is the actual sound which was filmed when the scene was filmed. they also use dialouge because in both diagetic and non diagetic because the dialouge can be dubbed afterwards.

i know think that films sounding ffects are more complicated than i first thaught such as when they foley the the sound which means they use another sound to replicate another.

story board of our practice film noir.

Buster Rayburn is in a prison cell.
his voice can be heard.'here i am again, they said i wouldn't make it on the outside. if only i didn't meet that dame.
buster is drunk in a bar on his own and is greeted by a gangster who says he has a job for him. buster turns the job down.
the gansters girlfriend lacey appears, buster cant take his eyes of her.
back to buster in a prision cell, (voice over) if only i walked away when i had the chance...
buster is back at the same bar drinking bourbon, lacey lane walks in and whispers in his ear seductively.
lacey gives buster a gun and a kiss...
buster shoots the gangster as he leaves his house one morning
buster and lacey meet in a dingey hotel room. she thanks him and says that she will run away with him that night.
buster waits for lacey at the rail station. the cops turn up and and arrest him. lacey can be seen in the background, she has obviously reported him to the police.
back to buster in jail. his voice over can be heard, (voice over) you see, dames always bring a man down. she wont hurt anymore suckers now...
buster quickly grabs the police mans gun in a struggle, manages to fire a shot which hits lacey and she dies.
flashback to buster walking out of jail.........


this story is typical of a film noir there is an antihero( buster ), femme fatale ( lacey ) and the villian ( the gangster ) the anti hero is typically drawn in by the femme fatale and murders her gangster boyfriend, the anti hero doesnt get away with the muders but the femme fatale dies also so the anti hero does end up being the only one left alive at the end.

reflective thaughts on usig survey monkey

1. I consider my survey monkey to be relevant to the subject because it helps me to deturmine weather film noir is a very popular genre for peple to watch over others.
2. i have learnt that i can do a survey this easily to find out primary research.
3.
4. this could be very effective if you have many followers on our blog or if you correctly send the survey into a social network etc...

my survey

Create your free online surveys with SurveyMonkey, the world's leading questionnaire tool.

neo noir is new film black.
film black is film noir, films set in dark places stereotypically black and white with occational tints of red, the use the chirosuro lighting effect to improve the tention...

Film Noir Presentation

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This presetation of the slideshare website is very helpful and relevant because it mentions the key conventions of film noir and explains the charicters, lighting and main events of the film genre. I learnt from this presentation the main years of the film noirs prime.
It helps me to understand the key conventions of film noir and how the charicters are manipulated, to how we view them as a charicter.
This slide has helped me to understand that for my introduction my group need to use chirosuro lighting to emphisise the dark and the light in the charicter.

mirco essay into the representation of the femme fatale/redemptive woman female using a film noir movie of your own choice.

micro essay on representation of the antagonist and protaganist in film noir using casino royal as evidence

links to and/or analasis of youtube documentaries/programmes witch give insite into genre

audience expectations from GENRE.

target audience and effect models for our OTS...

Our target audience for our film is social classes C2 and D grade males between 18-35 years old. This is because we believe that our film will be gory, violent, aggressive, threatening, intimidating, unsettling. We believe that our film will have a BBFC rating of either a 15 rating film or 18 depending the amount of violence we include in our scene.
We believe that our audience will follow the detectives hoping the murderer is caught out by them, the audience wants the criminal to be caught. Our effect models are the reception theory(The meaning of a "text" is not inherent within the text itself, but the audience must elicit meaning based on their individual cultural background and life experiences). Or uses and gratifications (People are not helpless victims of mass media, but use the media to get specific gratifications (Diversion, personal relationships, personal identity and surveillance).
Our film will go against every day rules and go with the oppositional hegemonic, the detective(s) will end up being the people they are hunting.

micro essay on genre conventions...

film noirs key conventions are that the man(antihero) who is drawn in by the femme fatalle.
the antihero is usually in the profession of an ex military man, policeman, boxer usually a respectable man.
The femme fatalle is a woman who has seductive powers over the antihero.
in film noirs they use a lot of contrasting light to show emotion it also portrays the good and bad in the character shown in the lighting.they use a lot of dutch, low, wide, angle shots also show the characters in one or more mirrors in the film so they can see what they have become and how they have changed, also the regretful decisions they have made in the past.
The main iconography of film noir is...
-trilby hat
-cigarette/cigar
-dark rooms/alleys
-alcohol
-guns (revolver)
-trench coats
they go against the transgression of the social normality of the surrounding area. such as the antihero you would not expect then to kill for love but in most old film noirs they do but are unfairly used by the femme fatalle.
the most common places for scenes in a film noir to be set are in urban areas such as bars, night clubs or gambling dens.

micro essay on genre pleasures.

continuity task.

continuity task from Ryan Fisher on Vimeo.

certificate ratings... BBFC research

Bbfc film ratings

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collarge of iconography associated with the genre

Collage of film noir

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still frame analasis

links to film noir fan site...

film-noir.gemzies.com/

DVD analasis...

examples of hit film noir films...

some examples of film noir...
-The Blue Dalah,
-Murder My Sweet,
-The Glass Key,
-The Killers
-Double Indemnity Crossfire,
-The Big Steel.

Neo Noirs...
-Swordfish
- Red Riding Hood
-Mulholland Drive

deconstructing neo noirs,

muholland drive and red ridding.

When is it? History of film noir

film noir was a genre in its prime in the 1940's-60's.
 Film Noir (literally 'black film or cinema') was coined by French film critics (first by Nino Frank in 1946) who noticed the trend of how 'dark', downbeat and black the looks and themes were of many American crime and detective films released in France to theatres following the war, such as The Maltese Falcon 1941, Murder, My Sweet (1944), Double Indemnity 1944, The Woman in the Window (1944), and Laura 1944. A wide range of films reflected the resultant tensions and insecurities of the time period, and counter-balanced the optimism of Hollywood's musicals and comedies. Fear, mistrust, bleakness, loss of innocence, despair and paranoia are readily evident in noir, reflecting the 'chilly' Cold War period when the threat of nuclear annihilation was ever-present. The criminal, violent, misogynistic, hard-boiled, or greedy perspectives of anti-heroes in film noir were a metaphoric symptom of society's evils, with a strong undercurrent of moral conflict, purposelessness and sense of injustice. There were rarely happy or optimistic endings in noirs.

What is Film Noir.

key conventions of film noir...
there is always a male (antihero), they have no rules, but are not intentionally bad. antihero is usually a ex hardman... detective, reporter, boxer, ex army.
there is also a main woman who is called the femfatal, this means a woman with power and also is very deadly(famFATAL).
a usual key convention of a film noir film is that the film will usually start at the end and then have flash backs as one either the femfatal or the antihero resite there side of the story through flashbacks and narative.
the film is usually in black and white with slight red, with a large amount of experimental lighting, they use urban locations mainly at night. usuing chiaroscuro means between dark and light scenes.

defective detective; film noir

Defective Detective from Cartoon Brew on Vimeo.

reflective comment

My strengths and fears for this unit are...
My strengths are that i am very good at understanding technology and confident in my anility to film and direct a scene.
My fears are that i have never uploaded a film to blogger so I am worried i my make a mistake.