18th February, Film Noir

During class today we spent time familiarizing ourselves with our group and what we are looking to produce during our film noir dialogue project. I think I was a 'thinker' (see below) as I took into consideration what putting the script into action would actually entail, and I tried to think up the best ways to go about it. 

We read through the script that our director/ screenplay writer - Jeff- produced so as to get a better idea of what equipment we will need. While reading through the script we discussed who would play the parts, what lighting we will use and what we are going to do about sound. We also made some changes to it to make it more appropriate to the equipment that was available - for example we changed the time the script is set so that lighting would not be a problem, as filming at night is rather difficult.  

We are planning to go scout out the proposed area for filming on monday - the waterfront in cyberport and Julien's house. We have decided that those are the most (theoretically) appropriate areas as the film is set in the distopian future, and the water front could give off the right kind of abandoned/ bleak look if the right effects are added and Julien's house is relatively futuristic (it is all white).  My side job was to research how to make fake blood and wounds, for the shooting in the scene, and here is what I found from 

http://www.halloween-website.com/fake_blood.htm:

Ingredients:

Gravy Granules

Red food colouring

Hot water

Make up the gravy normally, thicken if wished, then add the red food coloring. Texture is very realistic.

The wound steps are quite complicated, so I wont post them up here, but lets just say look forward to a very real shooting scene!

Thinkers: They exercise initiative in applying thinking skills critically and creatively to recognize and approach complex problems, and make reasoned, ethical decisions.