Friday, 17 December 2010
Charlie...
Charlie, who isn't here, has the storyboard. I guess we'll ahve to upload this over the holidays
Friday, 10 December 2010
Props!
In terms of mise-en-scene, we have thought carefully about how exactly we can create this hybrid genre, with the 1940s detective film noir and the modern time setting:
A friend of ours has a great 1950s telephone that wouldn't look too out of place. As the detective is called on the phone,w e felt this shouldn't be a modern, wireless phone and spent a bit of time asking around
The furniture in the apartment shouldn't be too hard. Your average sofa, a coffee table, a bookshelf...all speaks for itself. The papers and documents that we want strewn around the apartment to make it look like a break in can be mostly blank with a few hurriedly typed bits of rubbish, barely glimpsed in the background. We also have a couple of oldish lamps that we can use to further displace time. The last main prop that we need is the blinds for the window, the classic venetian style which are slatted, as they create a fragmented light system which we felt that we loved about old film noir; the lines of light on the detectives face is a style used in many examples of the genre.
The glass, which has importance because of the colour popping of the lipstick that we wish to create, is fairly important. The glasses also have to be of a certain quality and so we're looking for tat cut crystal type whiskey glass, which we both think we may be able to dig out at home. The bottle of brandy/whiskey can be any standard bottle, possibly without the label.
A friend of ours has a great 1950s telephone that wouldn't look too out of place. As the detective is called on the phone,w e felt this shouldn't be a modern, wireless phone and spent a bit of time asking around
The furniture in the apartment shouldn't be too hard. Your average sofa, a coffee table, a bookshelf...all speaks for itself. The papers and documents that we want strewn around the apartment to make it look like a break in can be mostly blank with a few hurriedly typed bits of rubbish, barely glimpsed in the background. We also have a couple of oldish lamps that we can use to further displace time. The last main prop that we need is the blinds for the window, the classic venetian style which are slatted, as they create a fragmented light system which we felt that we loved about old film noir; the lines of light on the detectives face is a style used in many examples of the genre.
The glass, which has importance because of the colour popping of the lipstick that we wish to create, is fairly important. The glasses also have to be of a certain quality and so we're looking for tat cut crystal type whiskey glass, which we both think we may be able to dig out at home. The bottle of brandy/whiskey can be any standard bottle, possibly without the label.
The script and storyboard
Charlie and I have thought long and hard about what the detective will say in the script that can sound like the 1940s detective he's meant to be. We wanted to give him that cliche, traditional appearance and therefore decided that what he says needs to connect with this. We have worked on the script for a while now and will hopefully upload it today. Although the film opening isn't very long, it starts with the narration from the detective, as is conventional of the genre and we decided that this then ahd to be important and sound right.
The storyboard, which Charlie has been working on a fair bit, will hopefully also be uploaded within the nesxt few days. A drawn out process, we felt that we needed to make the storyboard good enough to properly represent what we needed to film and so it has taken longer maybe than we would have liked. Our next step is in the direction of props.
The storyboard, which Charlie has been working on a fair bit, will hopefully also be uploaded within the nesxt few days. A drawn out process, we felt that we needed to make the storyboard good enough to properly represent what we needed to film and so it has taken longer maybe than we would have liked. Our next step is in the direction of props.
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