Production Diary: The best parts

We chose the best parts from our other drafts and we will edit them into our final product. Here are some examples:

Second edit of film review

The main points that have been flagged up are the green screen which we have decided to remove. Another thing is that there should be contrast between the shots so we are going to include some of the shots from inside the building from our first test footage.

Production Diary: Green screen

Today we began to edit everything we had filmed on the green screen and discovered a problem. We used a still image as the background and discovered that it looks unrealistic. This is because the person in front of the camera would be moving as they talk causing lighting changes on their face and because the image is still (the lighting doesn't change) it makes the background look two dimensional.

Production Diary: Car Scenes

Today we filmed the shots in the car. We had a problem with people who were in the background of our film because we had to wait for them to move out of shot before we could film again. This is because we felt that seeing other people in the background would be distracting in the final film. In the end we completed these shots and this marks the final day of shooting on our film.

Production Diary: Server room

Today we filmed the scenes in a server room. This was hard because we had to get permission to shot in there and we had to shoot all the scenes within 15 minutes because that was as long as we were allowed. Fortunately we felt we had a large variety of shots to be used during the editing process.

Production Diary: Reshoots

We have discovered by reviewing the second draft that we need more shots to add more to the narrative and to use a wider range of editing techniques so we are planning on shooting more scenes for these reasons.

Final shot

Initial shot

First edit of film review

Production Diary: Inspiration from Film Noir

We started filming the opening of our film today. We shot with the green screen to get our police interrogation shots. We have been using some of the conventions we have found from the analysis of film noir to make our product feel more like a thriller.

Textual Analysis: Score: The Shining (1980), Psyco (1960) & Jaws (1975)

Analysis of film noir

To help us improve upon our first draft, I will analyse film noir to find the techniques used to create the genre and how it turned into the modern thriller.

As you can see from this mood board of images from film noir including posters, lighting was a key feature to establish who characters are and their intentions. Film noir would often only use gender as a tool of sexuality because the female would be portrayed in a sexual manner on the posters. This is something we will not use in our film. However because of the technology at the time, films were shot in black and white meaning lighting and shadows helped massively when trying to create a scene. This is something we wish to utilise because we will have black and white scenes in our film.