Here is a link to my prezi

http://prezi.com/qduhh9jwrvom/

CONTINUITY TASK

this is our continuity task for our media.

Our Ideas For The Film Noir

Whilst shooting our film there were a number of differnt things wrong as i have explained in my last posts about our progress.

We added our new scene where the femme fatale meets her victim and we took some photo's to add as a story board for our film.

Lydia- http://lydiaearlasmedia.blogspot.com/ in my group was taking the photographs.

This is daisy conway- http://daisyconwaymedia.blogspot.com/ from my group pretending to be the femme fatale, she is walking towards her victim which is the man.

the next shot is of the femme fatale approaching the man she is meeting and embracing him with a hug.

the next clip is of the femme fatale holding a weapon, we used a screwdriver to represent a 'knife'. In our film we decided to now use a gun, she is still embracing the man.

the final image shows the femme fatale stabbing her victim which she went to meet, this is where our film will end.

Signifiers

In our media project we are using a number of signifiers, for example:

our femme fatale putting on red lipstick, red nail varnish, red shoes to signify that she is dangerous and powerful as the colour red signifys danger.

The signs our audience may reconigise when watching our film noir is that she is going somewhere, this will keep the audience guessing, wheres she going? who wants to meet her? why is she glamourising herself?

The ways the audience will identify who the protagonist and antagonist is, is the protagonist is obvious from the start chloe ( the femme fatale) is the main character, we follow her journey to when shes meeting her victim or 'prey'.

The antagonist is the man because he is powerless.

Semiotics

Semiotics, also known as semiotic studies or semiology or signification and communication, signs and symbols, and is usually divided into three branches:
Semantics: Relation between signs and the things to which they refer; their denotata
Syntactics: Relations among signs in formal structures
Pragmatics: Relation between signs and their effects on those (people) who use them.

Semiotics are known as 'the study of signs'.

this was the only picture i could find to demonstrate semiotics :

Feedback

In our media lesson we asked some students in our class to watch our film and give us some feeback to what we could improve and what was good about it.
The reactions to the film were good, most were shocked when they saw that she was concealing a gun.
The improvements we could make would be to make it flow more so its not just clip after clip, our media teacher Ms Humpbleby also suggested that we should take out one of our clips of the gun because once the audience sees the gun there are too many clips of her holding the gun to his head, we wanted it to flow smoothly.

Our Films Progress

On Thursday 18th of February my group and i decided to re-shoot some of our clips, as before they didn't look right on our film, they were too dark and we needed a tripod because some of our clips were shakey.
We started filming and we got 2 clips filmed but the weather was causing a problem and we kept getting rain on the camera, this made it unable to film so we rescheduled filming until Sunday 21st.
Re-shooting consisted of us filming the Femme Fatales walking scenes to meet her victim.
We also added a new ending where the Femme Fatale meets her victim, hugs him and whilst embracing the hug she puts a gun to his head, the trigger is pulled and the gun falls to the ground in slow motion.
This is so the audience will wonder which of the characters has been shot.
Filming was a success and we are now in the process of editing.

Bigger Picture Research

Bigger Picture Research shows the viewing figures for 2009 films, it gives you information which shows who was seeing what at the cinema.
If you are interested in this website heres the link it is very useful to anyone who is studying media at a-level :

http://www.biggerpictureresearch.net/2010/01/2009-box-office-and-admissions-round-up-australia-denmark-hungary-romania.html

Manchester Viewing Times At ODEON.

We were asked as homework to chose a city each as a class and find out what films were on at the cinema that week, i found that the following were showing;


Avatar 3D‎2hr 40min‎‎ - Rated 12A‎‎ - Action/Adventure/Suspense/Thriller/Scifi/Fantasy‎‎ - English‎ - IMDb
15:35 17:45 19:30 20:15 21:30
44 Inch Chest‎ - 1hr 35min‎‎ - Rated 18‎‎ - Drama‎‎ - English‎ - 15:00 17:15 19:30 21:50
An Education‎ - 1hr 39min‎‎ - Rated 12A‎‎ - Drama‎‎ - English‎ -
12:40 15:00 17:30 19:55
Avatar: An IMAX 3D Experience‎2hr 40min‎‎ - Rated 12A‎‎ - Action/Adventure/Suspense/Thriller/Scifi/Fantasy‎‎ - English‎ -
11:00 14:20 17:35 21:00
Did You Hear About the Morgans?‎ - 1hr 43min‎‎ - Rated PG‎‎ - Comedy/Drama/Romance‎‎ - English‎ - Trailer - IMDb
14:00 16:30 19:00 21:30
Nine‎ - 1hr 50min‎‎ - Rated 12a‎‎ - Musical‎‎ - English‎ -
12:00 14:35 17:15 20:00
Ninja Assassin‎ - 1hr 39min‎‎ - Rated 18‎‎ - Action/Adventure‎‎ - English‎ -
13:45 16:15 18:45 21:15
A Prophet (Un prophete)‎2hr 30min‎‎ - Rated 18‎‎ - Drama‎‎ - French‎ -
12:30 16:00 19:45
Book of Eli‎ - 1hr 58min‎‎ - Rated 15‎‎ - Action/Adventure/Drama‎‎ - English‎ -
15:45 18:30 21:15
Brothers‎ - 1hr 50min‎‎ - Rated 15‎‎ - Drama/War‎‎ - English‎ -
15:35 18:15 20:45
Daybreakers‎ - 1hr 38min‎‎ - Rated 15‎‎ - Action/Adventure/Drama/Horror‎‎ - English‎ -
16:45 19:15 21:40
Edge of Darkness‎ - 1hr 48min‎‎ - Rated 15‎‎ - Drama/Suspense/Thriller‎‎ - English‎
15:45 18:30 21:15
It's Complicated‎ - 1hr 54min‎‎ - Rated 15‎‎ - Comedy/Romance‎‎ - English‎ -
15:15 18:00 20:45
Sherlock Holmes‎ - 2hr 14min‎‎ - Rated 12A‎‎ - Action/Adventure/Drama‎‎ - English‎
14:30 17:30 20:30
The Road‎ - 1hr 51min‎‎ - Rated 15‎‎ - Drama/Suspense/Thriller‎‎ - English‎ -14:45 17:30 20:15
Toy Story 2 in 3D‎1hr 32min‎‎ - Rated U‎‎ - Animation/Family/Comedy‎‎ - English‎ - 13:15 15:30 17:45
Up in the Air‎ - 1hr 49min‎‎ - Rated 15‎‎ - Comedy/Drama‎‎ - English‎ - 15:25 18:20 21:00
Alvin and The Chipmunks 2: The Squeakquel‎1hr 28min‎‎ - Rated U‎‎ - Comedy‎‎ - English‎ - 17:00 19:15
The Twilight Saga: New Moon‎2hr 10min‎‎ - Rated 12A‎‎ - Action/Adventure/Horror‎‎ - English‎ -
17:00 20:00
Armored‎ - 1hr 28min‎‎ - Rated 12A‎‎ - Action/Adventure/Suspense/Thriller‎‎ - English‎ - 21:30

Experimenting With Film Noir Lighting

All these pictures show us in a studio experimenting with all the differnt types of lighting we could use in our own film noirs.

Most of them are using a shadow which adds mystery.

THE FEMME FATALE CHARACTER.

In our media project we have one character which is the Femme Fatale. The typical characteristics of a femme fatale;
she would typically be, Alluring, mysterious,glamourous,duplicitous, subversive, double-crossing, gorgeous, unloving, predatory, tough-sweet, unreliable, irresponsible, manipulative.
they are women who are dangerously seductive and always in control.
Femme fatale literally means "fatal woman" in French. It can be defined as "the kind of woman men want...but shouldn't have!".
At the start of a film noir the Femme Fatale would typically be in control, she would have the male protagonist (the hero) where she wanted him.
Although they start out as the dangerous, powerful ones they always meet their match and it is common that they die at the end of the film noir.
They are related to red and black clothing and make-up, which gives the feeling of danger.
An example of a typical modern real life Femme Fatale is Dita Von Teese a burlesque dancer.
we will be styling our Femme Fetale around Dita von teese, red lipstick, pale skin, dark smokey eyes, much like her look in this picture.

Camera Techniques We Are Using.

Our project is in the style of a film noir so we have decided to give it a older style for example we will be making it darker or changing it to black and white.
We ( me and my group mates) have researched into some film noirs where they use lighting in a unusual way.
We will be providing and using our own lighting and props.

Conventions Of A Film Noir

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'.

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.
Primary Characteristics and Conventions of Film Noir: Themes and Styles.
The primary moods of classic film noir were melancholy, alienation, bleakness, disillusionment, disenchantment, pessimism, ambiguity, moral corruption, evil, guilt, desperation and paranoia.

Idea's For Our Product

Myself and my team mates, Daisy Conway and Lydia Earl (links to their blogs at the bottom)have been brainstorming ideas as a group for our set task which was to make a film noir and
we have decided to combine the genres Film Noir and Youth Drama as the concept of 'youth drama meets film noir'.

In our media lesson we were asked as a group to produce a A5 piece of paper stating our ideas and showing we understood the task that had been set, it was called Continuity Task, we then compared our ideas with others in our media class and this helped us see what changes we could make or do differently.

Before we started planning our Film Noir we researched what a film noir entitles, what techniques it required and concepts. We used the internet to do this. We also watched film noirs such as, The Black Dahlia and Casino Royale.

we also researched the type of camera techniques, this helped us realise the things that we shouldn't do and gave a reflection on the task. i will be posting my ideas on this blog throughout the duration of this task.

The BBFC

The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), originally British Board of Film Censors, is the organisation legally responsible for film classification within the United Kingdom.

It was believed to be responsible for video and some video games until August 2009.

The BBFC currently issues the following certificates. The category logos were introduced in December 2002, replacing the previous ones that had been in place since 1985.
Certificate
Name
Definition

Universal
All ages admitted, there is nothing unsuitable for children.

Parental Guidance
General viewing, but certain scenes may be unsuitable for children under 8.

12A
Suitable for those aged 12 and over. Those aged under 12 are only admitted if accompanied by an adult at all times during the performance (cinema only).

12
Suitable only for those aged 12 and over.
No-one younger than 12 can rent or buy a 12 rated VHS, DVD, Blu-ray Disc, UMD or game.

15
Suitable only for those aged 15 and over.
Nobody younger than 15 can see a 15 film in a cinema. No-one younger than 15 can rent or buy a 15 rated VHS, DVD, Blu-ray Disc, UMD or game.

18
Suitable only for adults.
Nobody younger than 18 may see an 18 film in a cinema.No-one younger than 18 can rent or buy an 18 rated VHS, DVD, Blu-ray Disc, UMD or game.

Restricted 18
For adults only.May only be shown at licensed cinemas, only to people 18 or over

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Board_of_Film_Classification