Research into Film Noir

Femme Fatal

In film Noir the femme fatal is always portrayed as a cunning and sexual character. They always try to please the other characters most likely the detective with their nice yet sly charm by using their looks in order to pull the wool over the other character's eyes. 

Features of a femme fatal:

• The iconography is explicitly sexual with long sleek hair (blonde or dark), make up and jewellery.
• Cigarettes have sexual connotations of liberation and phallic power.
• 'Dress - or the lack of it - defines the woman'
• 'Iconography of violence is a specific symbol of her unnatural phallic power'
• Framed portrait of women is a common motif.
• Murders indicate narcissism or duplicity.
• Women are generally centre frame or drawing our attention by focusing on the foreground.
• Visual style expresses mood through darkness, both real in under-.jmlit and night-time scenes, and psychologically through shadow and claustrophobic settings which overwhelm the character. 

Planning Schedule

3rd November 2014 - Planning schedule created.
7th November 2014 - Begin to organize when certain actors can perform.
11th November 2014 - Film all of the college scenes, borrowed a camera for the night filming at home.
Evening of 11th November 2014 - Normal lesson, no filming. Filming at Charlie's house. 
17th November 2014 - free lesson - re-shoot anything that needs it, add additional scenes if necessary.
28th November 2014 - record the voice over at college sixth form.
1st December 2014 - editing again and making sure all editing is done with adjustments so add on's can be added for example titles, voice overs and sound effects.
8th December 2014 - add titles, voice overs and sound effects.
15th December 2014 - evaluating our film opening. 

December feedback

You are making sound progress toward producing an edit. Make sure that you take responsibility and make your input clear. At times you are not working to your full potential and the blog reflects this at present. Now is the time to make sure that research and planning is detailed and thorough.

You can add to blog posts to ensure that detail is there. Posts about representation and audiences is thin and you need to follow up what is covered in class with your own research and analysis.

Your film demonstrates a sound knowledge of the medium and technical skill.  You should complete this by the deadline. I think you need to film some different shots to show an awareness of generic codes and conventions.

Add;
Production schedule
Analysis of audiences and representations needs to be thorough

Concentrate on updating the web-log by Christmas and complete an edit.

Creative Journey

This week I have edited footage which we filmed last week. We filmed scenes for our final task in the college with the different characters. On a different day, we had to film the part where in which the detective is getting ready at his house and then we had to edit this at a later date. We are using Premiere Pro which enables us to be able to edit our final piece with the professional software so that it can look sophisticated in the end and like something a real film company would produce to sell to an audience. We had to import the footage and then find out where all of the many videos fit in and then place them into the correct order. Following this, we had to crop each of the videos to get rid of any background noise or unwanted footage to make it fluent. After this, we could then create our track and put it into our film and then change where about the music starts and stops to fit in with all of the tense parts of the film and the more quieter parts like when the detective is getting ready and then the more tense scene when the character opens the envelope.
 Finally, we extracted our film from the computer and added it to Landau's YouTube channel for our peers to watch and then give us feedback on how we can adapt it and make it reach the expectations for our targeted audience.