overall plan ideas and ideas for shots

The plan for our production piece was to film a noir piece using typical conventions as we decided that the thriller convention would be too hard to make look realistic with the time and budget that we have. We want to portray this using locations to create a mysterious feel. We have thought of some ideas for the locations to include an interior setting as well as an outdoor setting which could either be in a wood or at a train station. Another idea we had was to use a pier to create the older style feel that a noir film has. We also decided that we wanted to keep the main characters slightly mysterious during the opening to create enigma. We also wanted to change some of these typical noir conventions to create something different so we decided to create a modern noir. We decided to make it modern as this would add a different style to the noir film, by using modern clothing and settings whilst still keeping the femme fetal a feminine character and the male character masculine. We also decided that using modern clothing would be a good idea as it would be easier to find costumes and settings that would work with the 1940s 50 noir theme.

Shot ideas:
we wanted to try and create a mysterious feel through the camera angles and shots so decided that using close ups of feet and would create this feel however the audience does need to know who the characters are and so this is why we will use close ups of the face as well as long shots of the characters. Using long shots of locations would also help establish the settings and feel of the film.