Audio Commentary

The audio commentary we scripted over the weekend is being recorded today.  We hope that this will help the target audience to better understand the choices we made while filming, and the messages we were trying to carry across.  

This is a conventional film-noir establishing shot; there is dim, dark lighting and a mysterious sillouete. There is an enigma as to who this strange figure is and it causes the audience to pose questions.

In this shot, there are several conventions of the detective genre, however, the main and most important one is the desk that the detective is sat at. This is a key prop in almost all detective films as it is usually where the detective gets assigned his job, and the story unfolds.

Another convention of the detective film genre is that the usually detective smokes cigars/cigarettes. We chose to add this since it adds a sense of authenticity to our film opening.

Premiere evaluations

Overall the audience were impresses with our mise en scene, our chosen background music, the comedic gags of the film, our first shot of the character opening a door and walking past the camera and the general conventions of our film.

Improvements: More camera shot types, costumes, editing, its not black and white, the opening sequence was slightly too long and it went over the 2 minute time limit, on a certain clip the voice was not loud enough to be heard by eveyone.

Editing

filming continued

Today we filmed the rest of our film opening. We have now got to begin editing on thursday on thursday, Luke has volunteered to edit he film however we we all participate in the act. Our film will be ready for the first screening on the 19th March.     

Filming...

We began filming after many setbacks (members being ill and the key to the room being unavailable) when we finally recorded our first piece of footage we were all pleased with the outcome, this encouraged us to continue to work even harder to meet the deadline and succeed in our task.

Props Galore!!

Our school's drama department gave us access to all of their props, incase we needed them for our film. From this room we have obtained several key props for our film such as: a wine bottle, old fashioned type writer and an old fashioned phone. These are just perfect for our film genre we then went back to the room we're using and set these up on our desk for the ideal room layout.