1. Recce shots
Costumes: the costumes really added to the mise en
scene, the hat in particular really sign posted the
era and feel of classic noir. This trilby did add to the
feel of noir, however we did really want to get a
fedora, they are bigger and cast a bigger silhouette.
The detectives suit is all black with a white shirt, it
is smart and well fitting, this shows he cares for his
appearance, the criminal who was trying to escape
was is a shiny suit with the trilby. This may indicate
he is seedy and sleazy.
As far as lighting is concerned we had a few issues,
we needed to light a full alley way- for more
specific shots we had the security light- it was a
wide beam and was useful for casting shadows. The
long shot is light by Jamie’s mams car; these wide
beams light the full alley and created a great effect
for our film. To keep to the noir theme when we are
running down the alley and are fully silhouetted.
We had a few mini torches which in the end where
ineffective within the scale of the alley. The security
lights had to be powered by the two extension
leads running into Jamie’s house, this, unexpectedly
caused no issue. When using the car we needed to
drive it round to the back of the alley, for this we
needed Jamie’s dad to drive it and park it in the
alley. When we where filming the match on action
we used the security light- it was more accurate
and really helped.
As far as the match on action with the cigar was
concerned we still used the light of the car but also
had the light of the match to light the detectives
suit. The match on action with the shutting of the
matchbox worked well, however we did forget to
position the box the same in both shots. When we
came to finding locations for the filming we
encountered a few issues firstly we wanted to
shoot in a derelict building to add character to the
setting, but we agreed it was to dangerous and not
worth it, in the end we used an alleyway, this in fact
fitted better with the noir theme- for the
interrogation scene we needed some place quiet-
for this we used the TV studio.