18th February, 2009

Today we gathered in our groups started to discuss on our film noir. Since Henry was the scriptwriter, he finished writing the whole script and printed a set of each and one of us. I really like the storyline; I find it very interesting and sexy. It’s about a drunken man and a woman who is the femme fatale. Since Bernice is the cameraman, she will have to control the camera the whole time, while I’m the sound director, so I can do the acting for our film. Andy will be the drunken man. After discussing the roles, we all set off to work. Andy is the editor so he and Bernice drew the storyboard together. While Henry told me his meaning in each line and I thought about what kind of tone we can use in order to make our voices sound deep, mysterious and sexy. Today I’m being a thinker because I’m applying thinking skills critically and creatively to recognize and approach complex problems, and making reasoned, ethical decisions. At first, Henry typed up some songs we can use in the script, however, they are copyrighted, and therefore, we will have to change the songs. We can go to freeplaymusic.com to find different pieces of music that interpret different moods for free. I also have to be open-minded because I have to understand film noir’s requirements and characteristics. We used the “Sin City” as an inspiration for our film and I thought the costumes and lighting are extremely amazing.
We also discussed that Andy’s outfit will be a suit and he will wear a bit of eyeliner to add more tension to his face, while I’ll be wearing a sexy dress as I’m suppose to seduce him. We decided that the filming date will be on 27th of February – 28th of February. And we will be filming the scenes in Happy Valley as there are a lot of dark alleys there and it suits our film. I will go home and do some research on the sounds and the way to deliver the lines in the way that will express our own character’s style. I will also find gunshot sounds.