Streaming ...

In order to get our OTS seen by the 'right' people, we had to decide where we were going to stream it for this to happen. We went through a few possibilities such as using the internet, but decided against this as it may involve alot of searching to find our short film. This could deter some people from trying to find our film and therefore we would not get as much feedback as possible.

Here is a possible website in which we could stream our film on; as it is specifically for film makers:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/filmnetwork/filmmaking/guide/distribution/links-exhibition-and-distribution-shorts

Inspiration ...

Each member of the group is going to write about a film and how it inspired us in making our own film noire production.

I will be writing about 'Sin city'...

Ben Cawdron will be writing about 'The Ring'...

Ben Hawkins will be writing about 'Next Day Air'...

Jay Martin will be writing about 'Bangkok Dangerous'...

... More alterations ...

• Strong contrast of light and dark would make it more film noire
• play with the clips .. make them darker, looks naive with the light

The darker the film is, the closer the audience will move in to figure out what is going on and therefore be more hooked into watching the rest of the film.

As a group, we were also advised to research 'Mickey Spillane' and films such as; Se7en and Number 23.

...scenes added, for example; putting the parcel on the side, knocking it off, realising what it is ... We decided to add these parts as we all felt that there should be a moment when you see the victim actually finding the parcel and discovering what it is =)

... Scene 11 ...

...changed and added some different angles and camera techniques, such as; in the fridge, of the kettle, the bin etc ...

... Scene 10 ...

...Unchanged, only the scenes added before this one.

... Scene 9 ...

...we changed this scene from just one to a few different ones to split up the ideas and used different camera angles than originally planned. Although we did not use all of the shots as it did not make sense to squeeze many different angles of the victim walking from his room to the kitchen into our OTS.

FINALLY ... Continuity Task =D

As a group, this was our first recording/film that we did. The task was to film 'person A' walks to a door, opens it, passes through, crosses a room, sits down and talks to someone. There was many adaptations/extentions that could be added and we tried to include as many of these as we could within our ideas ... such as; person walking alone, footsteps, door bangs, a person screaming, ambient lighting, extreme angles, mutterings, reverse tracking, tilt, more than 3 locations, enigmas, more than 2 people, implied fear.
We managed to for fill many of these criteria but got a bit carried away with doing this and therefore did not focus on the story line as much as we should have done. We took this into consideration when we started planning and filming our main task and therefore (hopefully!) it will be much better than this.
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