A2FilmStudies: 2012

Monday, 17 December 2012

Inner Monologue

In this rough cut of the phone call from Rory's point of view I have used elements of cinematography and sound to emphasise the use of the conventions of film noir in my film. The last shot of Rory shows a zoom out as Rory speaks through the use of an inner monologue. Inner Monologues are used in film noir to give the audience a form of dramatic irony, the audience will know something which characters in the play do not know themselves.

Some good Film noir examples of inner monologue are shown here, to demonstrate how effective they can be and to show the effect I am looking for:

B'rief Encounter' 1945 David Lean

'Saturday Night and Sunday morning' 1960 Karel Reisz

'Psycho' 1960 Alfred Hitchcock

Tuesday, 20 November 2012

Music for my short film

I have been researching some backing music for my short film. The music needs to play either separately or continuously throughout the entire sequence including the 3 major scenes, opening and closing credit sequences.
I have been looking firmly on Shostakovitch's work especially his fifth symphony, all four movements have interested me, especially the first movement - 'Moderato' and the third 'Largo'

I like these pieces because of their dramatic and harsh tones and I believe that they might add very useful dramatic tones to my film.

Monday, 19 November 2012

Shooting Schedule final draft

Shot	Description	Checked
1	Rose walking down the street & on the phone.	YES
2	Mickey sneaking up on Rose.	YES
3	Rose acknowledging and recognising Mickey.	DIDN'T USE
4	Mickey knocking rose out.	YES
5	Rose laying on the floor.	YES

First scene

Second Scene

6	Rose tied to a chair as Mickey stares at photographs.	YES
7	Mickey Putting head in hands	YES
8	Dissolve to clock.	YES
9	Mickey taking picture off the wall	YES
10	Dissolve to clock.	YES
11	Mickey talking to Rose.	YES
12	Rose looking upset and shocked.	DIDN'T USE
13	Mickey dialling phone.	YES
14	*Rory answering.	YES
15	Mickey talking to Rory.	YES
16	*Rory talking to Mickey.	YES
17	Mickey talking to Rory.	YES
18	*Rory talking to Mickey.	YES
19	Mickey talking to Rory.	YES
20	*Rory talking to Mickey.	YES
21	Mickey talking to Rory.	YES
22	*Rory talking to Mickey.	YES
23	Mickey talking to Rory.	YES
24	*Rory talking to Mickey.	YES
25	Rose looking shocked as Mickey talks to Rory.	DIDN'T USE
26	Mickey Hangs up.	DIDN'T USE
27	*Shot of Rory on his couch.	YES
28	*Shot of Rory’s face as he speaks to himself.	ZOOM FROM LAST SHOT

Final scene

29	Rory walks alone in an empty car park.	YES
30	Rory meets up with Mickey and Rose who is tied to a chair.	YES
31	Close up of Mickeys face as he greets Rory.	YES
32	Close up of Rory’s face as he is shocked and talks to Mickey.	YES
33	Shot of Rose as she looks upset as Rory talks about her to Mickey.	YES
34	Close up of Mickey as he talks to Rory angrily.	YES
35	Close up of Rory as he Talks to Mickey angrily	YES
36	Close up of Mickey as he talks to Mickey angrily.	YES
37	Close up of Rory as he is shocked and tries to reason with Mickey	YES
38	Close up of Mickey reacting to Rory angrily.	YES
39	Long shot of Mickey revealing a knife.	YES
40	Two shot of Mickey running towards Rory with the knife.	YES
41	Two shot of Mickey lunging at Rory with the knife and Rory hitting him to the floor.	YES
42	Shot of Rory picking up Mickey’s dropped knife.	YES
43	Shot of Rory releasing Rose of her bonds.	YES
44	Shot of Rose running away.	YES
45	Medium shot of Mickey getting up and speaking to Rory Angrily.	YES
46	Two shot of Mickey punching Rory and Rory stabbing Mickey in self defence	YES
47	Two shot of Mickey kneeling to the floor dying and Rory throwing the knife away.	YES
48	Two shot of Rory kneeling over Mickey’s dying body.	DIDN'T USE
49	Long Shot of Rory walking away and dropping knife	YES

Final Cut - First Draft

This is all the shots that I have taken for my A2 Film Studies short film, this is without the audio added; backing track, and voice over dubbing are not included. Also the opening and closing credits are not included.

Opening Sequence first draft

This is the opening scene for my a2 media studies where MICKEY captures ROSE and decides he needs help hiding her.

Monday, 12 November 2012

New scene with subtitles

This is the final scene of my short film but with added subtitles so that the actors doing the voice over can read the screen and see the exact words the actor on screen is saying and they can read and add the words.

Sunday, 11 November 2012

Film Noir codes and conventions

This is a slideshow I found on the internet (slideshare.net) and I have found it to be very helpful when considering the codes and conventions of film noir and introducing the techniques that are used into my film.

Thursday, 8 November 2012

ROUGHS

This is a rough, of the phone call scene from Rory's point of view, of my creative project, The only editing effect added to the shots, after they where cut and placed together, was the process of changing them to black and white and adding a black screen between shots to symbolize where the shots from the other side of the phone call will be placed.

This is a rough of the final scene of my creative project, The only editing effect added to the shots, after they where cut and placed together, was the process of changing them to black and white and a slight blurring effect on one of the actors faces in a particular shot as the actor was looking at the camera. The sound was not enabled in this scene and I will use voice overs to dub in the dialogue.

Shooting schedule and marks on completion so far

Shot	Description	Checked
1	Rose walking down the street & on the phone.
2	Mickey sneaking up on Rose.
3	Rose acknowledging and recognising Mickey.
4	Mickey knocking rose out.
5	Rose laying on the floor.