Our Plot Idea.

All of our group came together to add little bits to our plot. These are made up of a majority of different ideas. Maybe later on in more development we may change something.

• Shot of femme fatale - crying, distressed, hands on face, from a highish angle at an almost side profile angle - as if from the corner of a room but as high of an angle - TITLE OVER TOP.
• Femme fatale looks up - past camera, eyes still.
• Close up of woman's face.
• Flashback to her in bar/café with two friends - table in view, drink and the shoulders of her two friends either side. Facial expression - none, looking into nothing - 'sense of being trapped' - camera zooms out; see one of her friends putting on her make up - one talking to our femme fatale. Shot stays for a few seconds.
• Shot of friends exiting café, kissing goodbye
• Close up shot of our femme fatale saying good bye to her last friend - kissing her on cheek - she catches a glimpse of something.
• Eye line match - our anti hero, standing up against wall, smoking - possibly a tilt, from foot to head.
• Possible close up of different features on our anti-hero - clothing, oil stains on vests.
• Close up of mouth smoking and blowing smoke. 
• Close up of eyes
• Shot of friend leaving our femme fatale - in view; her chest upwards, on one side of frame, her friend walking off in distance on other.
• Long shot of her standing on cobbled street - she catches herself, establishing her femme fatale character once more.
• Moving object shot - femme fatale walking into the shot past our anti-hero still up against wall.
• Shot from anti-heroes eyes, watching our femme fatale walk past.
• Shot of femme fatale from in front, seeing her intentionally ignore anti-hero and rummage in her bag, walking quickly.
• Shot of lighter falling.
• Close up as lighter hits floor - slow motion.
• Long shot, as if from the café entrance, looking onto where femme fatale has just walked - anti hero in view, picking up what femme fatale has dropped and in distance, femme fatale walking away still rummaging in bag.
• Shot of femme fatale rummaging in bag, gets out cigarette holder and looks for lighter.
• Shot of anti-hero; bent on floor. 
• Shot from other side of anti-hero standing up [camera moves up as he does] and lights cigarette with lighter - taking another toke on his cigarette - puts lighter in pocket - beginning to walk quickly away from camera and towards femme fatale.
• Shot from front of him walking towards us with femme fatale in view - ''this yours miss?'' - see femme fatale half turn.
• Shot from side profile [long shot] - seeing his hand outstretched handing her lighter - she takes the lighter, lights her cigarette looks down at his feet.
• Tilt shot, showing femme fatale giving him the 'once over' - ends with shot of anti heroes face where he says: ''where you off to?''
• close up of femme fatales face - ''is it any of your business?''
• Shot of anti heros face - ''no but you can't blame a fella for being interested can you,'' - his eyes look over her.
• Close up of femme fatales face - ''What's your name?''
• Close up of anti heroes face - ''Your interested [grin], ######''
• Close up of femme fatales face - ''Oh, no, just being polite.''
• Close up of anti heroes face, - ''What's your name? See your not the only one with manners''
• Close up of femme fatales face - ''No? Well I've got things to do, I might see you around.''
• Long shot of femme fatale walking away from anti-hero.
• Close up of anti hero - takes a toke on his cigarette and looks away to the side of him - an intended way of making him look as though he's not interested but seeing if anyone's seen what's just happened.
• Close up of femme fatales face walking away - a toke on her cigarette and a smile.

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Our own touch to film noir.

Although we want to keep the stereotypes of the anti-hero and femme fatale, we want to add our own touch of neo-noir and modernise it. This way, it will fit in with the location and also the editing of our opening title sequence. The location is going to be a typical old cobbled street with very little lighting but we may also film inside a pub, conventionally you would probably see them in a diner or a small cafe. With our editing, we are adding in different transitions and techniques such as, fade ins and fade outs, slow motion and adding the black and white contrast in later on.

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Our Presentation of our concept board.

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16-11-10 We present our concept board

Today me and my group were going to present our concept board to the rest of the class. We would be recorded which then will enable us to upload this to our blog to keep track of our progress. Even though each of us were assigned to a specific part of the concept, we put it all together in one big presentation. We hope that it went well and that we will soon be provided with an appropriate critic and some pointers that we can work on!

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My groups prezi's.

Copy of Concept Board - target market on Prezi

Copy of Sound & Characters Concept Board on Prezi

Copy of Concept Board-Camera Shots and Typography on Prezi

Melissa focused in detail on our target market, Kieron focused on the sound and character, and Jessica looked at camera angles and shots. All of these are a vital part of our concept board.

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This is my part to the concept board. I have researched the mise-en-scene, the mood and the ambience that will go into our film noir concept.

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EVIDENCE

Here are two examples of me and Kieron doing each of our assigned tasks. I had to research costume and Kieron was doing camera shot examples from other films.

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MY GROUP

I have decided to work with these 3 people because I get on very well with them and we all have the same interests. Our ideas vary but I know they will come together well.

Melissa Bartram - http://asmediastudiesmelissabartram.blogspot.com
Kieron Marchese - http://asmediastudieskieronmarchese.blogspot.com/
Jessica White - http://asmediastudiesjessicawhite.blogspot.com/

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What has to be on my concept board

Title
Genre - Film Noir
Plot - Order/Structure of the narrative
Narrative - Story
Cast - Character, Representation (style,props,costume), Accents, Mannerisms
Conventions - Established or expected rules of genre
Mise-en-scene
Camera - Shot, pace, angle, transitions
Signifier/Icon
Set
Connotation - Suggestion/meaning/implied
Denotation - Emphasised/explicit/factual/stated
Sound - Diegetic/non-diegetic, effect, synchronous/asynchronous, foleying, contrapunctal,
Ambiance/Atmosphere
Mood
Style
Target Audience - Demographics (factual data, preferred audience)

This is a list of the essential ideas that will go into my concept board. A selection of these will be deligated to each person in my group. My selection is mise-en-scene. I will be looking at the costumes/props, location and lighting. A lot of research will go into my part of the concept board and I will make sure I state what research I have done. Our concept board will be done on Prezi so as each of us our doing a separate one we must make sure that each relevant idea is covered.

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I like this blog..

This week we got told to look at other A Level blogs, pick one we liked and say why we liked it. I had a look through the majority and came across this blog (LINK IS BELOW).
http://meganasmediablog.blogspot.com/

The reason I liked Megan's blog is because she added a lot of humour and personality to it. All her work is completely up to date and relevant but I love how she made it her own. It looks completely different to all of the other blogs I looked at. I aim to keep my blog up to date and looking nice just as she has. This is definitely a blog that will help me throughout the mind blocks may get.

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Prezi #2

This is my prezi on the two main representations and stereotypes in film noir. I began to experiment more with the format and overall design to create a more interesting presentation.