MAIN TASK - EVALUATION - Montoya Downfall

MAIN TASK - Montoya Downfall - Final Edit

MAIN TASK - Montoya Downfall First Edit

Media Evaluation - film noir

Media Evaluation

Film Noir - My Contribution

Within this task I worked with Stephen and Jake I believe we did well in this as we split our task accordingly to our strengths and did them equally. In this task I worked on:

• Shot List 
• Production schedule 
• 2nd edit
• Camera shooting
• Casting 
• Actors Info 

As well as these I took small roles in other tasks like script writing but this was mainly Jake. I believe the tasks were done well and efficient as we all helped each other instead of one person completely doing a task 2 people did. 

Film Noir - Research

When I first started my film I obviously looked at what was conventional towards this film genre these things are listed below:

• Hats 

 

• Long Coats

 

• Murder
• Detective

 

• Alcohol 

 

• Cigars/Cigarettes 

 

• Femme Fatales (usually seductive women)

 

• Dark lighting 

Also after looking at all theses separate conventions I looked further into other research and though filming will be very simple as harsh dark lighting will be needed and to film in black and white. But a main concept would be that our group would need to film long opening credits which go at the start of our film. 

 

Here are some examples of what I found:

From this particular research I found that we would need some dark background with white writing. Also to have lots of cross fades which all flow nicely with easy transition. Furthermore they would need to include all actors with names, and say who wrote directed and produced. 

After creating our final credits we decided to alter these and instead of panning a dark street with lamposts as harsh lighting maybe to use a puddle with ripples over it.

Film Noir - Diary Entries info

Through the tasks I believe we worked well and efficient even though very few entries have been made that is due to how busy we have been. We started off planning I think this went down very well and we came to our idea. Then we started all Pre Production and managed to complete all tasks, this process started slow but after we came together as a group this all started flowing nicely.

Afterwards we filmed and came together and edited predominately Jake but me and Stephen added effects and came together to polish off a film which is almost 100% complete. 

I believe all blogging and all our film producing has gone up to scratch, I think this as we are well within the time frames and believe we can finish extra evaluations and all other tasks to improve our final grades.