Improvements for Our Film

Film Noir Rough Edit Notes

Media Film Notes- (Film 2 was ours) 

Film 1 (Nicky...)

Story Line:

•   It's too horror

•   Hard to understand why the killer kidnapped the girl

Mise-en-scene:

•   The settings are good - fit what was happening

•   The costumes fit how the characters are

•   Not that much dark lighting

Acting:

•   Believable

Cinematography:

•   The shots in the locker room are really good

Film 3 (Charlie...)

Story Line:

•   Resembles film noir

Mise-en-scene:

•   Needs more dark lighting

•   The ally and office setting fits the theme and the action

•   The costumes fit the characters

Acting:

•   The acting style fits the characters they are portraying

Cinematography:

•   Angles including the overhead shots are done very nicely

•   Framing is good

Film 4 (Milly...)

Story Line:

•   Was easy to follow

•   Resembles film noir

•   The walking at the start was a little long and not needed

Mise-en-scene:

•   The shadows used were creative and well done

•   The last scene had too many edits when it should have been one continuous shot

•   The settings fit what the story intended

Acting:

•   Showed what the characters were suppose to be like

Cinematography:

•   The overhead shots and the canted angles of the girl walking were really good and made good shadows

Film 5 (Ilona...)

Story Line:

•   The storyline is clear and resembles film noir

•   Some of the walking at the start can be cut a little

Mise-en-scene:

•   The lighting when the detective is questioning the other girl is good

•   Maybe needed some more lighting to avoid the black dots that appear when the cameras sensitivity goes all weird

Acting:

•   They all stayed is character

•   Acting styles fit there characters

Cinematography:

•   Had low exposure

•   The angles used were good

Reflection

Teamwork during Pre-Production:

My group didn't really have many problems while developing our plot or character concepts. We all had good ideas and listened to each other, and when we liked more than one idea, we sort of tried to blend them together. One problem might have been that we all had maybe too many ideas and we had to try and shorten what we had. Our group was definitely very organised and used the planning templates very well before filming. I find that they helped us a lot during filming, and even though we didn't have that many shots in our shot list, while we were filming we sort of made up a few that we thought of on the spot, therefore making more shots as we went along. I believe that our group were very efficient in class during pre-production as we all contributed to what each other were doing, while still having assigned jobs. Because Julian was a good drawer, she made the shot list; because we were going to use Isabella's house for filming, she was in charge of making the props/costumes list and to make sure everyone brought there things; I helped make the shot list; and because Lauren was the director, she helped with everything, giving ideas as we went along. Some steps we used to improve on this area were:

1.  Only talking to each other about things associated with the task

2.  Always checking in on each other and asking if everyone agreed with what they were doing (which we all usually did)

-- Could have improved on:

3.  Making sure everyone had all of the work

Teamwork during Production:

The shot list helped a lot during the shooting. We all had a copy just in case. We would read what the shot list said and discuss according to the room we were using what we were going to do as sometime the description didn't match the location perfectly. The schedule was very helpful also. We had a great plan of filming all of the office things at school in classes, and then spend a few hours at Isabella's house filming all of the crime things there. We made effective use of the provided templates to assist in the filming process as if we were kind of stuck on what to do when referring to the shot list, we looked at the storyboards to help us get a better understanding of what it is suppose to look like to the viewer. We did have a few organisational problems during the production process. One of these was when Julian was late to school and missed Media Arts class. We worked past this by shooting all of the dialogue that Isabella had to say without Julian there and planned a date to shoot all of the shots where Julian talks. Unfortunately, a few other things went wrong. One the rescheduled day, Julian's mum forgot to bring in her tie, and when we went to get a camera from Mrs Usher, she had already left and locked up. Therefore, we had to film during a class time, which delayed both Julian and mines scenes that we were suppose to edit. We did just get them finished and handed in on time, but it was a really stressful process. Luckily, our group finished all of the shots as detailed in our planning (with still some extra shots to shoot and some advised re-shoots for our final edit).

Discuss your individual feelings about the rough edit:

I believe that our group is reasonably happy with the final result (from a rough edit standard). We were rushing to try and finish it and hand it in on time that we made a lot of mistakes that we didn't notice at the time. I believe that when we do the proper editing, it will be much better as we will be able to add the sound we had discussed and we can make the colour better as well. We accidentally forgot to add some of the dialogue that was suppose to be in the last scene so if we added that in it would have been a little over three minutes like we planned. Our film requires some additional scenes and some re-shooting. Thankfully, we know what we are doing now and know what we need to fix. I would like to change the pace of the film. I find it to be a little fast paced and the editing needs a lot of work and more time. If we could start the project again, I would have tried to be a little more efficient when filming so we could of had more to to edit properly. Planning took less time than anticipated as we all worked together and shard ideas, therefore the process when extremely fast.

I don't believe that I undertook adequate and detailed reflections worth 5 weeks. I will try to remember and work on this for next term. I will try and do at least 1 reflection a week as I need reflections to support my work, which I hope by doing this, I have now done. 

Visualization Activity - How We Perceive an Idea

Storyboards

Shot List

Location	Shot		Movement	Description of Action	Characters	Lighting Notes
	Type	Angle	Type
Outside detectives office	Medium shot of detectives door.	Medium	Nil	Faint ticking noise	Nil	Medium hall way lighting
Office	Wide shot of office.	High	Nil	Medium Ticking noise	Emma, Detective	Faint lighting
Office	Close up of clock ticking	Slight low angle	Nil	Loud Ticking noise	Nil	Normal
Office	Panning shot of side and back of Emma with detective in front	Medium	Pan	Dialogue- "Are you sure you cant remember anything from the night of the murder?"	Emma, Detective	Light coming from in front of detective
Bedroom	Slow pan upwards of bed and someone in it (3sec)	Medium	Slow Pan	Ticking Continues	Emma	Dark lighting
Office	Close up shot of Emma's face	Medium	Nil	Dialogue "I promise, I can’t remember anything."	Emma	Light coming from in front of Emma, Light defuser
Bedroom	Slow pan continues, but further up on bed (3 sec)	Medium	Slow Pan continues	Ticking Continues	Emma	Dark lighting
Office	Side view of Emma and Detective sitting at desk	Medium	Nil	Dialogue "Just try and think back to going to bed that night"	Detective	Nomal Lighting
Bedroom	Top, close up view of Emma's face, then her eyes open.	High	Nil	Emma's eyes open and clock stops ticking	Emma	Part lighting
Staircase	Emma's POV	looking down stairs (High)	panning down stairs	Kind of shakey camera with blury lense	Emma	Lights shining down over her head onto her face
Staircase	medium close up of Emma (slightly canted)	High angle	Steady with Emma	Blurry as Emma walks down the stair case	Emma	Lights shining down over her head onto her face
Hallway	Long shot	high	Nill	Emma is walking up the hallway (blurry)	Emma	High lights at the right side of hall shining down on Emma
Hallway	Medum Shot	High	Nil	Emma is walking up the hallway (blurry)	Emma	High lights at the right side of hall shining down on Emma
Hallway	Close up shot	High	Nil	Emma is walking up the hallway (blurry)	Emma	High lights at the right side of hall shining down on Emma
Kitchen	Wide shot	Medium	Nil	Emma walking into kitchen, to draw and opens it	Emma	Medium lighting coming from ceiling lights
Kitchen	Close up shot	High/ Medium	Nil	Looking through draw and takes the panodol out	Emma	Medium lighting coming from ceiling lights
Kitchen	Wide shot	Medium	Nil	Emma walking from the kitchen to the living room	Emma	From the light of the kitchen into the dark of the living room.
Living Room	From behind (medium), then changes to over shoulder (high)	Medium/high	Follows Emma then moves to left over her shoulder	She walking into living room and sees the TV on with a sihlouette of a body on the floor	Emma, Katie	Dark as she walks to living room then room lit by TV light
Living Room	Medium close up of Emma's face	High	Nill	Emma is shocked as she realises it's her sister	Emma	Shadowy lights from tv shine onto her face (Shining up on her face)
Living Room	Extreme close up of sister's eye	Medium/high	Nill	Shot of sister's eye with Emma blury in background	Emma, Katie	Light from TV shining down on Katie's face
Office	Medium close up of detective (over Emma's shoulder)	Medium	Nill	Dialogue- "So, that's when you found you're sister?"	Detective	Normal Lighting
Office	Medium close up of Emma (over detectives shoulder)	Medium/high	Nill	Dialogue- "Yes."	Emma	Normal Lighting
Office	Medium close up of detective (over Emma's shoulder)	Medium	Nill	Dialogue- "And you don't know what happened to her? How she died?"	Detective	Normal Lighting
Office	Medium close up of Emma (over detectives shoulder)	Medium/high	Nill	Dialogue- "No… They think I did it, the police. But I promise I didn't! Why would I kill my own sister!	Emma	Normal Lighting
Office	Medium close up of detective (over Emma's shoulder)	Medium	Nill	Dialogue- "I know."	Detective	Normal Lighting
Office	Over Emma's shoulder with pictures blurry in background	Medium	Nill	Emma is looking at the picture with teary eyes.	Emma	Normal Lighting
Office	Close up of pictures	Medium	Slow pan of pictures	Shot of the pictures on the board, close up of a picture of the sister	Emma	Normal Lighting
Office	Medium close up of detective (over Emma's shoulder)	Medium	Nill	Dialogue- "I promise you, I will do all I can to find the monster who killed your sister."	Detective	Normal Lighting
Office	Medium close up of Emma (over detectives shoulder)	Medium/high	Nill	Emma nods and says, "Okay".	Emma	Normal Lighting