This week my group and I took location shots which are placed inside the school so we knew what we shots and angles we would take and took pictures of actors/characters in costume. In class we planned and wrote out our scripts, and combined our 3 ideas to make a different story line. For the production of our film noir opening my role will be the camera operator. Week 29/5/2016 This week, we filmed a scene with Nile and Clint, however as we weren't happy with the outcome we decided to go back, see how we could change the script a bit and are planning to film again. We also updated our websites and published them, we will however continue to add to our websites. We will hope to continue shooting next week and update our websites with location, prop and costume shots. The scene was shot in a part of the school not seen or used often, between our doomed hero and the crime lord. As a group we want to change locations as the location we have is very fairy tale like and too modern. Week 316/5/2016 This week we shot another scene with Ana and Clint in the green screen and as we shot with multiple different angles we have many different cuts and shots. Hopefully next week we will be replacing the green screen and putting a background in. I also updated my blog as I'd spent a lot of time shooting I decided to update my website as much as possible adding our location shots and updating any changes made. The scene shot was our last scene where the doomed hero comes in to see the femme fatale sitting at her table. The ending here is a slight cliff hanger as they discuss meeting the crime lord again, femme fatale leaves to find a dress and our doomed hero sits instead. Week 423/5/2016 This week we shot with Ana, Clint & Nile as much as possible. Nile and Clints alley way shot was re done in between the drama huts as we felt the location we used before didn't seem right and seemed too fairy tale like, our film is more dark and mysterious rather than fairy like and flowers blossoming around. We hope to continue shooting and want to start editing in the next few weeks. We are shooting our main scene with all three characters soon. Week 58/6/2016 This week we continued shooting scenes but however do need to re do some, we shot in different parts of the school and also in the green screen room with Ana, Clint and Nile. Throughout the week we will continue to shoot and do re takes on pieces of scenes we think will need to be re-done. We still need to replace the green screen with a background but will start editing soon and we hope to have a rough cut for our next lesson. We shot the restaurant main scene this week and will be continuing shooting footage that needs to be re done and by next week we hope to be on final cut pro editing and putting a first draft together. Week 614/6/2016 This week we started editing using final cut pro and learnt how to use the program which helped so we could cut out parts we thought needed to be cut out. We began to be able to put scenes together, after this we then had an understanding of what we need to re shoot and need to shoot. Nile looked for music to put into the background and we will continue to edit and will have a rough cut for the end of todays lesson. We are missing a person and are unable to shoot today, so we have decided to update our websites with blogs, costume/character and prop shots. On editing I was able to learn how to cut and add scenes together, I learnt how to cut bits out of the middle of scenes, trimm the beginning or ending of clips I learned how to make it black & white. We next week will be uploading our rough draft on youtube. On final cut pro we have most of our scenes bar one which we will need to be re shooting, after that we will continue to edit and have all of our scenes ready to be put together. I learnt using a blade, effects, how to take out small hiccups in scenes such as the actors smiling or looking at the camera. I learnt how to put audio higher as one of our actors was quite quiet and also lower as sometimes the back ground noise was quite loud. Week 721/6/2016 This week we finished shooting our main bar/restaurant scene with Ana, Clint and Nile. We uploaded our scene and then put it into final cut pro. I learnt how to slow down a part of a scene so that due to Nile smiling instead of the transition being very fast I trimmed then end of the scene and was taught by someone how to slow down the clips. Along side this I learnt how to put green screen background into our scenes by keying footage and replacing the green which an image placed under the footage, we put these into most but are still looking for more backgrounds to put into our scenes. We will also be hoping to out in our sound track soon which Nile has found one, but we are still looking for another one. Week 828/6/2016 This week we edited and put in all but one of our green screen which we had difficulty finding the right one, we managed to learn how to fade between scenes, and how to elongate the end of a scene when it cut to quickly. We also started looking for the right text for the intro to use for the title and credits. Along side this we started looking for our establishing shot. However our main priority was getting the scenes in order with their green screens and music. We had some trouble with the volume of certain scenes as the actors talking was sometimes too quiet but managed to bring the volume up. Week 9This week we finished editing and we learnt how fade music to suit the end of a scene and fade scenes into each other. A scene we found shaky with the camera we managed to stabilise so it didn't look as bad. We learnt how to slow down scenes which we found was a bit too fast and slowed down ends of scenes that cut off too quickly. We also got the right fonts for our opening credits and an establishing shot for the beginning of the of the film opening. We finished any last minute editing needed to be done any uploaded the finished video to Lampton's youtube Questionnairehttps://docs.google.com/a/lampton.org.uk/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSekUMuHvzvu5mUWJauO5qoHUrh8bH9PJOFSElKhfScmAVIDPA/viewform This is the questionnaire we created for others to give opinions and show their understanding of film noir, and these are some of the responses we got back. From the results of our questionnaire, we can see that most of our viewers are aged 13-15, and that most of them have a good understanding of film noir and typical known facts about film noir such as what key murder weapons are used and which are the most important conventions are of film noir and even the type of music used. Over half of our responses said they would recommend film noir to a friend which means they enjoyed our film opening. The same amount, 61.5% said that a good story line is what makes people want to view a film noir, which could mean they enjoyed our film noir story line.
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