Monday, 9 January 2012
Film evaluation
On the whole, I think as a group we worked well together considering it was the first film we have produced. I think that the filming was good, but we had issues with our timing and we had to keep moving the day of filming back, due to a number of different factors. The actual organization of the camera, the objects in the room and the lighting I think was very well done, basically the setting. I think we captured the images that we had in our minds before filming. We used a variety of camera angles, editing techniques and lighting which was at a good standard and we implemented some good non-diegetic sound to highten the mood and create an enigma for our thriller film. However in the actual film we made about two or three basic mistakes that we realsied after editing. Also I think that we tried to make it a bit to complicated and as a result it took longer than expected, considering it was only meant to be a two minute film. As a result from our first film being made, I think it was a positive start and something that we can learn from.
Technical aspects of Film Noir
Lighting
A French term that translates as 'black cinema', film noir is a style of film making that is largely dependent on light for its effects. The term is used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas, particualry those that emphasie moral ambiguity and sexual motivation. Noir tends to use low key lighting schemes, producing stark light/dark contrasts (chiaroscuro) and dramatic and ominious shadow patterning. Venetian-blinded are an iconic visual in film noir, windows and rooms and dark claustrophobic, gloomy appearances. Exteriors were often urban night scenes with dark shadows and flashing neon lights. Low key lighting or high contrasting light. White and black cinemotography considered to be one of the essential attributes to classic film noir.
Setting
Settings were often interiors with low key lighting, Venetian-blinded windows and rooms and drak and claustrophobic, gloomy appearance. Exteriors were often urban night scenes with deep shadows, wet asphalt, dark alleyways, rain slicked or mean streets. Story locations were often in murky and dark streets, dimly lit-rooms and low-rent appartements.
Characters
Heroes or anti-heroes, corrupt characters and villains included down-and-out. Conflicted hardbolied detectives or private eyes, cops, gangsters, government agents, a lone wolf.
Mise-en-scene
Film noir locations used the everyday urban settings to make what was happening seem more real to the viewer. Moved from crime movies only happening at the end wrong of town and dodgy areas to everday locations. Low key lighting and high contrast images. Everyday urban locations.
Narrative
Narratives were frequently complex, maze like and convoluted and typically told with foreboding background music, flashbacks or a series of flashbacks. Witty razor-sharp and acerbic dialogue and or confessional first person voice-over narrative. Amnesia suffered by the protagonist was a common plot device aswell as the downfall of an innocent everyman who fell victim to temptation or was framed.
Camera angles and movements
Dutch camera angles are used in Film Noirs, it is a tilted shot and is most commonly used to portray tension or psychological uneasiness. Also low camera angles are used to create the same effect. The pace of Film Noir films are very slow paced and have very little different camera shot. It would normally consist of one shot with panning or tilting.
A French term that translates as 'black cinema', film noir is a style of film making that is largely dependent on light for its effects. The term is used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas, particualry those that emphasie moral ambiguity and sexual motivation. Noir tends to use low key lighting schemes, producing stark light/dark contrasts (chiaroscuro) and dramatic and ominious shadow patterning. Venetian-blinded are an iconic visual in film noir, windows and rooms and dark claustrophobic, gloomy appearances. Exteriors were often urban night scenes with dark shadows and flashing neon lights. Low key lighting or high contrasting light. White and black cinemotography considered to be one of the essential attributes to classic film noir.
Setting
Settings were often interiors with low key lighting, Venetian-blinded windows and rooms and drak and claustrophobic, gloomy appearance. Exteriors were often urban night scenes with deep shadows, wet asphalt, dark alleyways, rain slicked or mean streets. Story locations were often in murky and dark streets, dimly lit-rooms and low-rent appartements.
Characters
Heroes or anti-heroes, corrupt characters and villains included down-and-out. Conflicted hardbolied detectives or private eyes, cops, gangsters, government agents, a lone wolf.
Mise-en-scene
Film noir locations used the everyday urban settings to make what was happening seem more real to the viewer. Moved from crime movies only happening at the end wrong of town and dodgy areas to everday locations. Low key lighting and high contrast images. Everyday urban locations.
Narrative
Narratives were frequently complex, maze like and convoluted and typically told with foreboding background music, flashbacks or a series of flashbacks. Witty razor-sharp and acerbic dialogue and or confessional first person voice-over narrative. Amnesia suffered by the protagonist was a common plot device aswell as the downfall of an innocent everyman who fell victim to temptation or was framed.
Camera angles and movements
Dutch camera angles are used in Film Noirs, it is a tilted shot and is most commonly used to portray tension or psychological uneasiness. Also low camera angles are used to create the same effect. The pace of Film Noir films are very slow paced and have very little different camera shot. It would normally consist of one shot with panning or tilting.
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