shoot 9 and decisions

In this shoot, we shot Shauna dead, and Jacks shadow killing Shauna.

- these are the shots we are using of Shauna, we decided on the mid shot showing both her neck and face because it makes it more personal, and the viewer is questioning why Jack has killed the woman that he was on a date with, who looked so in love with him. Therefore they would want to watch the rest of the film. Because of Shauna's necklace, and convenience, we have decided to rename the film 'Forever', therefore the close up on Shauna's necklace is a graphic match to the title as we tried to get the closest font to it as we possibly could.
- We also shot Jack and Shauna's shadow. We experienced problems with this but did in the end get a good shot. The problems we faced were:

• The floor lamp in the drama studio had been taken by someone else, so we could not use it.
• We therefore had to use a small lamp and a Phone torch to create the shadow - this worked and could be seen.
• However, it could not be seen very well on camera, therefore we positioned the actors nearer the wall so the shadows could be seen.
• But this meant thee actors heads could be seen in shot.

We overcame this by having the actors kneel, so that there heads were not in the shot, and tilting the camera upwards.

Shoot 8

In this shoot we shot Jack wiping the blood off the knife and walking away, and Jack walking to the light switch.

WHAT WENT WELL	wHAT did not GO WELL
-          We re-shot the wiping the knife scene and were pleased with the results, we also decided to include a POV shot, which we think adds to the atmosphere of the sequence, as the viewer can see what the murderer can see.	-          - We were not very time effective, as we decided to take our time over the wiping the knife shot because we had already had to re shoot it. However this paid off because it was a good shot.
-          We also shot jack walking to the light switch, and the close up of it, and were also pleased with this.

We have decided to have a piano track playing for our entire title sequence, it is non copyright as we are recording it ourselves; this is the same for all our audio - including the scream.
We will not be getting any of our audio online, and will record it all using sound recorders from school. We are also going to record some of the dialogue in our sequence so that we can delete the audio in the video, thus reducing the crackly sound in the background.

Shoot 7 and decisions

This shoot did not go particularly well at all, we wanted to film the shot were Jack wipes his knife, however we realized that at this point we did not yet have any shadows in our title sequence, which is a key convention of Film noir. Therefore we decided to have low key lighting in this scene. 

However, although this looked okay on camera, when we played the scene back on the Mac this did not look at all good, and the floor light was too bright on Jack's face, therefore the shadow looked good but we could not see Jacks face at all, meaning that this was not an effective place to have shadows. 

Therefore, we made the decision to show the shadows of Jack and Shauna when Jack kills Shauna instead of it being completely pitch black for the entire time. 

Shoot 6 - Car scene.

- These are the shots we are using from shoot 6, we are happy with these shots and have shown them to Mr Michie and do not need to re-shoot them, thankfully, as the classic car broke down whilst we were filming, meaning that it has now gone into the garage and we cannot shoot anymore scenes using it.

Titles

- This is the logo I created for the producing company of 'Blood Money', Hoyile is Tiffany's - a member of my group - name in Chinese, which is the country she comes from, therefore this name is relevant to us as a group and it meant that nobody else had this name.

- This is the logo I created for the studio that distributes  'Blood Money', P.E.J stands for Prada, Emily; Jade- all the members of our group excluding Tiffany, as her name has been used for the production company.

Both these logos are quite simple, but I think this benefits them and they stand out.




- This is Mona Lisa typography, this is the font we have decided to use in white for our other titles. We think this font works well with our title sequence because it is elegant and the serif style makes it formal - like the event our characters are attending. The uniqueness of this text stands out as its not the normal font you would see, it is dramatic and draws the viewers attention, however it is not bold enough to draw the viewers attention away from the action on screen, making it perfect for a film noir thriller. The sharpness of the text creates tension as the viewer can therefore infer that something is going to go wrong, and that not everyone in this film is good.

Footage evaluation from shoot 5 and editing

We were successful in getting all the shots we needed from this shoot, and so have begun to edit it.

We have put all the footage we have got so far in place on premier and put transitions in, so that now we need to film 7 more scenes, put our titles and music in; then show Mr Ford and Mr Michie to get their impression.