CONSTRUCTION: CALL SHEET #1

Call Sheet #1 - Wednesday 29th January 2014

 

Film Title – Film Noir Short Film
Unit Call Time: 11.00	Filming Starts at	11.20
Main Crew Contacts	Email
Thomas Stevens Kate Bradford George Flack Charlie Myers	01ThomasS@claremont.surrey.sch.uk 01KateB@claremont.surrey.sch.uk 01GeorgeF@claremont.surrey.sch.uk 01CharlieM@claremont.surrey.sch.uk
Name			Prop/Equipment
Kate Bradford			Camera from Media, Tripod, picture of woman
Charlie Myers			Fedora hat, black shoes, black trousers, dark trench coat, old newspaper
Thomas Stevens			Fedora hat, black shoes, black trousers, dark trench coat, walking stick/cane
George Flack			Fedora hat, black shoes, black trousers, dark trench coat, fake cigarettes

Location
Claremont Fan Court Scool
Claremont Drive
Esher
Surrey
KT10 9LY
Tel: 01372 467841
Directions: The school's Claremont Drive entrance is accessible from the trafic lights on the A244 at the junction with Claremont Lane/Copsem Lane/Milbourner Lane.  Once on Claremont Drive, continue straight ahead until you reach the school entrance.  The gates are usually shut and you will need to ring the buzzer t gain access

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CONSTRUCTION: CALL SHEET #3

Call Sheet #5 - Wednesday 12th Feburary 2014

Film Title – Film Noir Short Film
Unit Call Time: 11.00	Filming Starts at	11.20
Main Crew Contacts	Email
Thomas Stevens Kate Bradford George Flack Charlie Myers	01ThomasS@claremont.surrey.sch.uk 01KateB@claremont.surrey.sch.uk 01GeorgeF@claremont.surrey.sch.uk 01CharlieM@claremont.surrey.sch.uk
Name			Prop/Equipment
Kate Bradford			Camera from Media, Tripod, picture of woman
Charlie Myers			Fedora hat, black shoes, black trousers, dark trench coat, old newspaper
Thomas Stevens			Fedora hat, black shoes, black trousers, dark trench coat, walking stick/cane
George Flack			Fedora hat, black shoes, black trousers, dark trench coat, fake cigarettes

Location

Claremont Fan Court School Claremont Drive Esher Surrey KT10 9LY Tel: 01372 467841 Directions: The School’s Claremont Drive entrance is accessible from the traffic lights on the A244 at the junction with Claremont Lane/Copsem Lane/Milbourne Lane. Once on Claremont Drive, continue straight ahead until you reach the School entrance. The gates are usually shut and you will need to ring the buzzer to gain access.

CONSTRUCTION: CALL SHEET #2

Call Sheet #2 - Saturday 1^st February 2014

Film Title – Film Noir Short Film
Unit Call Time: 10.45 under the clock	Filming Starts at	12.00
Main Crew Contacts	Email
Thomas Stevens Kate Bradford George Flack Charlie Myers	01ThomasS@claremont.surrey.sch.uk 01KateB@claremont.surrey.sch.uk 01GeorgeF@claremont.surrey.sch.uk 01CharlieM@claremont.surrey.sch.uk
Name			Prop/Equipment
Kate Bradford			trench coat, red lipstick, heeled shoes, blouse, leather gloves, powder compact, tan leather handbag, cream beret, maroon beret
Charlie Myers			Camera from Media, Tripod,
Thomas Stevens			Wrapped Brown Package with white string, tan leather suitcase, Fedora hat, black shoes, black trousers, dark trench coat,

Location
Paddington Station Praed Street Paddington London W2 1RH 1) From Waterloo take the Bakerloo Line 2) Leave the train at Paddington Journey: Waterloo → Embankment → Charing Cross → Piccadilly Circus → Oxford Circus → Regents Park → Baker Street → Marylebone → Edgware Road → Paddington Estimated time: 16 mins Fare zones passed through: 1
St Pancras Station 1) From Waterloo take the Bakerloo Line 2) Change train at Oxford Circus to the Victoria Line 3) Leave the train at Kings Cross St. Pancras Journey: Waterloo → Embankment → Charing Cross → Piccadilly Circus → Oxford Circus change train Oxford Circus → Warren Street → Euston → Kings Cross St. Pancras Estimated time: 24 mins Fare zones passed through: 1

CONSTRUCTION: DEVISING OUR FILM TITLE

Today we worked on the exact wording for our film title. We wanted the title to:

·         establish the film’s genre (spy mystery thriller)

·         Convey the key ideas (our ce)

·         Intrigue the audience (it suggests a deadly plot, our central female character carries a mysterious box)

·         Tap in to intertextuality through shared knowledge of cultural codes

OUR SHORTLIST

Beyond Belief, Behind The Barrel, Behind The Wall, The Berlin Brief, Operation Meisterhaus, In Cold Blood

We ended on In Cold Blood because it has many connotations that work with our plot, in  particular, the reference to the Cold War and to ruthless violence. The Cold War was a war between America and Russia, where no actual fighting took place however there was a constant threat of nuclear disaster. In our film, we have many connotations of the title, such as the threat upon the girl when she is shot and the era that it is set. 

29/01/14 FILMING: FIRST FILMING SESSION

Today was our first shoot for our film opening. In this scene we had Thomas, George and I sit around a table looking at a file on this girl. We each had to take in different props and costumes. We borrowed a camera, tripod and two lights. We decided that we would film in a room in our school that looked like it would fit the 1950s period of our film. We had props from that era such as an old newspaper, and big trench coats. We managed to film the shot that we needed to. We filmed many different ways we could, including pans and zooms. However we will only use one of those shots for the final piece. Below are pictures from our shoot.

RESEARCH: FILM OPENING ANALYSIS

Today I analysed the opening of Zen (BBC 1) a thriller television programme. I saw the ways that genre was shown; such as images of guns to show crime, images of keys as a reference to prison, the protagonist in a dark, formal suit with sunglasses, looking authoritative and buildings relating to Italian police headquarters. ‘The Questura’ is clearly inscribed in stone. This series follows Aurelio Zen and his detective works in Rome and is based on the novels by Michael Dibdin. I saw how the opening had many visual signs of the Italianicity of the show, such as; the red, white and green in vertical strips which connotes the Italian flag, silhouetted images of St Peter’s Dome as well as top down shots of St Peter’s Square which are iconic symbols of Rome, known all over the world over, and Fiat 500 cars.

I used the website The Art Of The Title (www.artofthetitle.com) which I thought was necessary for me to use. It is a site that is dedicated to displaying and examining title opening sequences. I picked three opening sequences to analyse: Moon (Duncan Jones 2009), Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Guy Ritchie 2005) and The Player (Robert Altman 1992)