Media Studies 3 - Chloe

Today was the first lesson of production!  All the work that we had done for our pre-production was going to get used now!  So to begin with as a group we made a check list of what we should do today, this was so we knew what we had to do and we got much more done.  So, firstly we had to get a camera for the pictures that were going to be used on the board, Shona Isla then edited them on the computer to make them black and white.  We put the names of the suspects in the pictures and we used serif text, this can connote feelings of the devil – something bad!  As Shona Isla was doing that Tristan, Connor and I made the credits to our opening scene.  We got black card as a background and then got a light to put over the card, it was still a little dark to give the feeling of film noir, this also gives the feeling of the unknown and the dark sidethat people have.  When I was filming the light it would slowly move across the writing to look like a spotlight, we would leave the text on screen enough for the audience to read it and then Connor slowly blew it off the screen, it looked cool!  We managed to get the credits done except for one thing, the name of the film, which we still need to come up with.  We also made a props list. I have to bring in a cup and an ashtray to sit on the desk.  Shona Isla needs to bring in the coat.  Tristan is going to make fake blood! Connor is bringing in the gun, there are more props but I will post them up on the blog when I know who is taking them in.