Changing in Titles

We have changed the order of our titles because although the titles I have put on the blog below are how they would have been done in the 1940s-50s and we are doing a neo noir which is typical of this time we are not in fact making our film in the 1940s so therefore we have adjusted them to be more like those in a new film. On the software we have used scrolling text so that the titles all roll up the screen against the dark shadow on the wall, all except the name of the producer and director who’s names are in slightly larger American typewriter font than the rest and the are cross dissolved in and out in the middle of the page. This is typical of noirs as well as modern films to have the producer and director’s names stand out, as they are the most important. This can be seen in Chinatown 1974, which is a well-known old noir.  

Organizing our Title Sequence

The titles will be ran at the beginning of the thriller along the shadow of the brick wall outside before the detective walks into view. We will learn how to edit them into our thriller next lesson but here is what they will say. In this same order they will include;

Name of film production company.......................MGIM Productions                            

MGIM Productions Presents.....                                                                           

Main Actor.......................................................Stephen Paxton

Main Actor.......................................................Dayana Pinaeva

Main Actor.......................................................Samuel Rhodes

Co Star Actors..................................................George Hill

                        ..................................................Maggie Campbel

                        ..................................................Simon Wood

                        ..................................................Francessca Hoare

                        ..................................................Toby Baring



                        ..................................................Ivo Beckett

                        ..................................................Theo Bhat

Guest Starring Actors.......................................Maxim Bawldry

Casting by.........................................................Georgie May     

                 .........................................................Joel Hambly

Screen Play by..................................................Imogen Riley

Script Writer and Idea for Film........................Marita Hall

Director of Photography...................................Paul Mathews

Art Director (Costume design).........................Gregory Fellows

Set Director (and designer)...............................Mollie Cayzer-Colvin

Sound Director..................................................Luke Del Drago

Film Editors......................................................Giorgio Carta

                    ......................................................Mollie Cayzer-Colvin

                    ......................................................Imogen Riley

                    ......................................................Marita Hall

Make up Artists................................................Sophia Stanway

                         .................................................Eleanore Hemsley

Assistant Director.............................................Clifford Ricks

Music................................................................Giorgio Carta

Music Supervision............................................Matt Lucas

Produced by......................................................MGIM Productions

Directed by.......................................................Tom Christopher

(Title)                                              Let The Sleeping Dogs Lie

Editing: Adding Sound

Today in editing we started to look at the sound FX from soundtrack pro, we were looking for gun shots sound FX to match the shooting scene in our thriller, but none of the sounds were suitable so we decide to look for some shots sound FX online therefore instead we were editing the sound we recorded while shooting our thriller and we decided to keep the sound for type writer, sound of hanging up the phone and the quote from diana : I know what you did to Johnny. We also spent some time searching for the right music to put with our thriller.

Starting to Edit

So far in editing we have made a rough body of our thriller sequence on a programme called Final Cut Pro, putting together the successful cuts that were filmed on Tuesday and making them all run together smoothly. Now we are experimenting with effects and filters to make in black and white, adjusting the contrast where needed. Once this is done we will look at the sequence more critically and smooth out every detail correcting any mistakes and looking at ways to make the film look as good as possible.

Account of Shooting Day: Set-Up

Our day began at 9 when we went into the studio to check what props we had already collected for our shoot. Already the day before we had been around the school a bit looking for perfect props and had managed to collect some old looking books from the library, old ornaments from the office and collected the costumes for our actors. So our morning consisted of collecting more things we could use such as a coat hanger, cabinet, plants. Once the set was up we had to paint it, this took some time and then delayed furnishing the set because we had to wait for the paint to dry. This made things complicated because it meant that our whole shooting schedule would be behind so we decided to cut out our secretary because we were not sure that if we filmed her we would be able get in all our shots with our two main actors. 

Account of Shooting Day: Camera

For the start of our thriller we added in an extra tracking shot of our detective walking down the street and whilst we were filming this we realized that it would be perfect to have most of our title’s coming down at the same time. While filming our thriller we had many close ups because most of the actions our actor was making mattered to the story that we were trying to convey and all of them basically came out the way we wanted them too. At the end as well we put in a tracking shot because we decided that the title of the film would be what the detective wrote on the paper and we thought that a tracking shot would nicely combine the last scene to our title scene.

Account of Day: Props

Surprisingly the props that we wanted to use were easier than we thought to find around the school. We thought that it would be hard because of our old-fashioned noir theme but we quite easily found a typewriter, an old phone and old fashioned looking ornaments. Basically from looking at old noire detective films such as L.A. Confidential and images from Google we were able to base our detectives look of that. Our actor had the exact clothes that we wanted so he ended up wearing his own and all we got for him extra was the classic detective style hats. With our leading lady we struggled a bit because we only got the clothes last minute and they were not exactly what we pictured. Our last resort was once again asking her if she had any suitable clothes. She came back with a Prada coat and a loose fitting dress which was exactly what we had pictured.