Problem in production;

Our ots has accidentally been deleted due to students accounts being deleted for more memory for the macs at school, our ots project was on one of the accounts that has been deleted. The technician is trying to recover our ots clips which will need to be re-edited completely if they can be recovered. This has hugely affected our project as we were extremely close to finishing and could have easily handed it in for the deadline Friday but it now is likely to have be done all over again. 

OTS;

This is our first finished edit which we have changed, improved, re-filmed and also added sound of the theme music and Femme-Fatal's voice over.

The reason that the video is small is because it was not exported into the correct file which i have recently learnt how to do correctly, i can not now export it again which is explained why i cant in the next post.



Pin-up Girls from Lucy Easton on Vimeo.

Gun Shot;

We need to create the sound of a gun shot for one of our scenes, to do this i have thought about materials we can use to record the sound using the Mrantz.

These are some materials i have thought of using; 

A ruler hitting a table; 

Two planks of wood hitting together; 

Standing on a bag/pocket of air and creating an echo;

Production Company Title;

Our production company for my groups ots was called 'Entertainment Central' but after researching similar films production company's names i realized that this name is not suited for the genre and plot of our ots and also does not sound right. As our ots is a Neo Noir i researched more modern production company's that produce scary/dark films so the company fits the genre and chose 'Momentum Pictures' as our production company after checking it through with my group. Momentum Pictures has produced popular films for years, it has created comedy's, Drama's but most commonly terrifying films such as 'The Women In Black', 'Insidious', 'Sinister', 'Apartment 143', 'A Night In The Woods', 'House At the End Of the Street' being the most popular. Also the production company's design of the title is bold and clear which fits the common titles for Film Noir films.

This is the commonly used Momentum pictures title; Which is bold and clear like the 'double Indemnity' film title.

I searched through the different styled Momentum title designs and found this one which i think would suit our ots and fit into it very well, i will talk to my group and ask their opinion on using it. It is similar to 'The Locket' film title.

What we're currently doing;

We have finished editing our ots and have completed the sound to go with it, Daniel created two sections of music using a piano which have a very low tone to fit the mood in our ots. We need to re-film a certain section of Daniel and Lewis walking away from the murder to their shed as it was shot too late at night so it has turned out extremely dark and blury as it is unfocused, we plan to shoot this at around 4:30 as this is when it starts to get dark but it is still visable to see what is going on. I read the script of my voice over and recorded it with a Mrantz microphone and uploaded it to our Imovie and we are currently cutting and editing that voice clip.

Presentation;

Presentation from Lucy Easton on Vimeo.

Non-real time used in our OTS;

In a team meeting we came up with a few films that we would use as inspiration when making our OTS, and one that stuck with us was the hit film 'Memento' because the film uses Non-real time which we decided we would use, because we thought that rewind motion at the end of our OTS would work nicely as it gives the viewer the feeling that they have missed something with in the OTS and that we have to go back to find out what it is if missed and in this case who the killers are.

I have worked to make this inspiration of the non-real time become reality within our OTS which we as a group are very happy with. 

Genre, Audience and Institution;

Our ots is a modern intake on neo noir and it is a crime movie.

It is mainly aimed at men between 25 - 40 and would either be streamed online which is usually from a website with a range of films available for free which can be watched instantly on a laptop, ipad ect. 

Steaming online;

Picture house cinema;

Or shown in a picture house cinema which is a network of art house cinemas in the U.K, they are usually small cinema's with smaller screens, more comfortable and better quality seating with a classical look to it. Picture house cinemas also show more varied, arty and alternative films which the larger cinemas would not choose to show. Our ots would be shown here as it does not have the quality's to be shown in a known cinema such as vue or odeon on a big screen because our ots does not include close ups and does not show expressions and feelings on the actors face which is very common in a cinema screening and also the lighting is extremely dark and dull which is not common in a recently made film aimed for the cinema franchise. 

An image of me and Lewis editing our ots;

In this image me and Lewis are placing the clips backwards then cutting and speeding them up for the ending of our ots as there is a quick reverse through all of the clips.

Final story board;

First story board idea;

These images are of our first story board idea;

We changed the story line slightly from these images to make the story line better and more interesting.

First draft of shots for film noir opening sequence;

Shot 1; Lucy is laying dead on the floor looking very roughed up after being slit in the neck by Daniel, wearing a black dress with red lipstick and high heels with a puddle of blood next to her neck.

Shot 2; Close of up of Daniels face with a focus pull outwards to show his whole body as he is looking down at Lucy then he takes a picture of her dead with an old fashioned camera.

Shot 3; Lewis and Daniel casually walking away from the scene going down to the cabin to print the picture and stick it on their wall of victims.

Shot 4; Eathan the detective is waiting in the cabin looking at the wall of victims as Daniel and Lewis walk through the door laughing and there is a quiet pause when they have eye contact.