Shooting Film Noir - Part 2

Tasks:
1) Finish your noir scene scripts.

2) Storyboarding - As Christopher Columbus (director of the first two Harry Potter films) once said, “Making a movie without a storyboard is like throwing your money into a bottomless pit.”

Create a storyboard to go with your scripts, to give you a better idea of how to shoot your scene.  Look here and here to remind yourself of what elements to include in your storyboards, and how to lay them out.


You need more? Look at this tutorial:

You will find storyboard templates in the downloads section of your Figaro account:

\college\IB Film Studies\Screenplays and Storyboarding\template_storyboards.doc

Remember, when it comes to shot composition in your storyboards, think about both our purpose, and also the constraints of our filming location.

1) Purpose - to experiment with lighting and camera position to mimic a noir style.
2) Constraints
     - shooting indoor in fairly bare room with only one window and two doors.
     - very limited props for set design (table, chairs, phone)
     -no lighting or smoking of cigarettes allowed on school campus!!!

You will need to think carefully how to ensure that your shots create the ILLUSION of your setting. Think, for example, of how to use close ups and camera angles effectively to reveal just enough of your setting:

Look at how the angle and close-up position here shows a man, perhaps listening to a conversation in the next room, perhaps waiting for someone to enter...

Notice the use of shadow here too. We will need to find away to create these extreme shadows with our lighting.

Notice how the over-the-shoulder close-up shot here allows us to see the woman on the telphone, whilst keeping our view of the room restricted.





We will visit our "studio" tomorrow and set up our scenes, firstly experimenting with different ways of lighting the room and the subjects.

You will need to ensure you have in your group for tomorrow:
1) three table or desk lamps (1 100W, 260W)
2) a four-plug socket adaptor
3) costumes, hats, props


Fiming groups:
Double Jeapordy
Santos
Giuliana
Tomas
Ernesto
Ramiro

Touch of Evil
 Viveka
Manuel
Sabrina
Honorio
Carlos