For our project to make a five minute film noir, we were in a group of three. We decided on the plot of our story together and called our film 'Blackmail'.
CHARACTERS
Clark McCaine (Journalist)
Martha McCaine (Clark's wife)
Nancy Hartley (Celebrity)
PLOT
- Clark is a journalist who owns his own newspaper but his buisness is failing with no money and may have to close. He plans to have an affair with Nancy who is a celebrity he has previously interviewed, write an exclusive story on her that she is having an affair with a 'mystery man' and make lots of money from it.
- Martha, Clarks wife, finds out by finding a draft of the newspaper story then follows Clark to Nancy's house waits for him to leave and posts the draft through Nancy's door.
- Nancy see's this draft and panics that it will ruin her career so heads to Martha's house to tell her before anyone else does. The two women get talking and plan to get revenge on Clark. In the end they decide to kill him to save both of them and go to his office with guns.
- Clark turns round in his office chair to see both women standing at his door. He rummaged around in his door for his gun knowing he was in trouble. He turns and shoots aiming for Nancy but hits Martha.
- Martha plays dead and Nancy shoots Clark. Nancy thinks she has got away with killing them both. As she smugly walks out of the office Martha stands up and shoots Nancy.
Saturday 25 February 2012
Thursday 23 February 2012
LA Confidential Film Review
Throughout my blog I will be building up my work on film reviews and posters and to start this off this is my first film review on LA Confidential.
LA Confidential is intense all the way through. The directors and writers have created a story that makes the reader actually think about what they are watching and try to work out what will happen next.
The film from 1997 can still be related to and have an impact all these years later. Throughout the story are repeated deaths and people killing people you wouldn’t expect. There’s mystery to the story with unexpected resolutions.
In the film is a ‘made up’ character of Rolo Temassy, but is he really made up? Or is it infact Dudley? Who knows, Dudley dies at the end, shot by the good cop, Ed Exley.
The story has twists and turns and with the corrupt police, unexpected issues. It portrays real film and neo noir conventions and characters. It has the traditional dark lighting and storyline with elements of crime. The characters like the femme fatale, heroes and villains are also traditional to a film noir.
The crime aspect of the film is brilliant, they capture real thoughts and scenes of a horrible aspect. The whole way through the film I was intrigued and eager to learn what would happen next. In the end, it was seeming to be resolved yet with that hidden aspect and film noir style of unresolved mysterious issues.
LA Confidential is intense all the way through. The directors and writers have created a story that makes the reader actually think about what they are watching and try to work out what will happen next.
The film from 1997 can still be related to and have an impact all these years later. Throughout the story are repeated deaths and people killing people you wouldn’t expect. There’s mystery to the story with unexpected resolutions.
In the film is a ‘made up’ character of Rolo Temassy, but is he really made up? Or is it infact Dudley? Who knows, Dudley dies at the end, shot by the good cop, Ed Exley.
The story has twists and turns and with the corrupt police, unexpected issues. It portrays real film and neo noir conventions and characters. It has the traditional dark lighting and storyline with elements of crime. The characters like the femme fatale, heroes and villains are also traditional to a film noir.
The crime aspect of the film is brilliant, they capture real thoughts and scenes of a horrible aspect. The whole way through the film I was intrigued and eager to learn what would happen next. In the end, it was seeming to be resolved yet with that hidden aspect and film noir style of unresolved mysterious issues.
Wednesday 22 February 2012
Film Noir Poster
I really liked the idea of having the femme fatale in the forefront of the poster and leaving the men to the backdrop. I wanted to do this because classically the femme fatale manipulates the male so I liked the idea of showing this through the poster. Also there is a lot of red text and dark lighting used so I wanted to encorperate this into my poster.
I have included my stages of designing my poster below. It took me four stages before I decided on my final one. My initial basis for the poster was to have the two women in the forefront and the man in the middle but further back. I decided I wanted one female to be the clear femme fatale but the other to have hints of the strong independance but not fully. I made sure I have shown this by putting the femme fatale in a low cut red dress and red lipstick and then the other woman in a angelic white dress but with the contrast of a red scarf around her neck, still showing a slight plunge neck and red lipstick. I also put the man in a brown smart suit wearing a hat so he looked sophisticated. Behind the man is an image of some skyrise building like ones you would get in a city, I wanted it to be quite dark and the lights from these buildings showing up.
I also decided that I wanted the title bang across the middle of the two women like it had been plastered onto the page as if someone was to shout it. I also chose to put the actors names along the top above the man and inbetween the woman as they are less important and doesn't need to be as obvious as the title. Underneath the title 'Double Take' I have included the words 'from Warner Bros.' as this is the production company I would want to use. I did this writing like it was being shot out of a gun. Next to this is the age rating of the film, I put it as a 15 as I felt an 18 would be more graphic and rude but this wasn't going to be like that. Overall I am happy with the way my poster has come out, I think setting it out with the stages of development next to each other really helped me with what I wanted to change and what I needed to change so the poster would look even better than my first draft.
Presentation - Mildred Pierce
As part of our project we were asked to do a presentation on a Film Noir film that we had researched for ourselves. I did my presentation on Mildred Pierce.
Monday 6 February 2012
The Big Sleep
The Big Sleep was the last film noir we watched in lesson. It was made in 1946 by Warner Bros. Lauren Bocall and Humprey Bogart are the main characters in this film, both classic film noir actors. The film is 114 minutes long and has elements of crime and mystery to it. The story is about a detective, Phillip Marlowe (Humprey Bogart) who is hired by a rich family to resolve some gambling debts. Along his time working with the family Bogart finds murder and love.
The film is in traditional black and white. The film contains themes of blackmail, crime and mystery. Both main characters are smart. Bogart wears suits and hats but occasionally loosens his tie or shirt for a more casual look and also smokes. Lauren Bocall wears structured jackets and tailored outfits with collars but shirts with ties into bows for a more feminine look.
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