The Exchange

Call Sheet For Contemporary Film Noir Opening

Date: Monday 15th February 2010
Location: Cameron Mears' house, Shafto Road.
Directions: From town, go to Norwich Road all the way down to Bramford Road, which you follow straight to Shafto Road.

Call Times
Meet in town with equipment at 4pm.
Travel to Camerons house and get there by 4:30pm
Shooting begins at 4:45pm
Expected to end by 10pm

Crew
Directing: shared role
Sound man: N/A
Production assistants: Shared role

Talent
Cameron Mears : victim, deceased
Amy Meitiner: suspect, bullying victim
kira knight: suspect, jilted lover
Ben Halliday: suspect, drug dealer

Equipment:
Sony DV1 Camera
Standard tripod for Sony DV1 camera


Props
Alcohol, Sofa, Beds, Drugs, Ipod Docking System.

Second day of shooting

Date: Wednesday 10th March 2010
Location: Ben hallidays house, Holbrook

Directions: 92 bus from Cattle Market bus station, takes you straight there.

Call Times
Meet at Cattle Market bus station at 9am
Travel to Bens house and get there by 9:35am
Shooting begins at 10:00am
Expected to end by 4:00pm
Crew
Directing: Ben halliday and Amy Meitiner

Sound man: N/A

Production assistants: Shared role

Talent
Amy Meitiner: suspect
kira knight: victim, deceased
Ben Halliday: suspect

Equipment:
Sony DV1 Camera
Standard tripod for Sony DV1 camera

Props
Alcohol, Sofa, Beds, cigerettes,

by kira knight

by Kira Knight.

Storyline/synopsis for film noir opening

It starts with a group of teenagers making their way to a house party, they get to the house and begin drinking and having a goodtime, one of the teenagers starts a fight with another teenager and everyone tries to stop if, the fight turns into one big brawl, as the brawl stops the teenager that started the fight falls to the floor after being stabbed, a girl screams and the party stops, everyone runs and scatters away from the house, all but the owner of the house and the person who the fight was with, at the end you hear sirens coming and fear is struck in the face of all that are there

Nior Opening Editing treatment

The editing for this piece will be clean and use continuity editing up until the flashbacks where, to create the effect of disorientation, things aren’t in order, shots are skewed etc. Editing to create flashbacks isn’t intended to look cliché so we’ll go about it differently – when zooming into the guy’s face (when he finds the body) a bright flash will be edited in to the scene to tell the audience we’re going into the character’s mind. The light will slowly fade into the scene where we see the suspects and the reason they may have committed the murder. As this is a flashback of a drunken party, the editing can feature continuity editing, jump cuts, discontinuity editing to disorientate the audience. The music we will reflect the action but also the noir characteristics of the piece. Upon zooming out of the guy’s face, the bright light will appear again and the zoom out will be sped up to invoke a sense of panic.As the action is quite detailed, the opening titles will be placed before the starting scene. The typeface will be simple, but also reflect (along with colour) the noir feel of things.

Noir opening Mise En Scene Art Direction Treatment

Props = alcohol, cigarettes, drugs, ashtrays, ‘soup’ sick, bed, sofas, ipod docking system, blood.

Alcohol and cigarettes are typical of noir tendencies.The drugs and the ipod docking system give it a modern kick.

Costume and make up = casual everyday wear of young adults, with a noir flair. For example men dressed in darker shades of clothing. E.g. blacks, greys and dark blues. And women in red lipstick and red nails, dark seductive eys or even red clothing. Not all characters will dress like this, it will make the main suspects of the killing stand out. This will keep it to the noir feel but add the modern edge that is needed for this film opening.

Location = Camerons house- kitchen- bedroom- bathroom- study

Synopsis for nior opening.

Scene opens in the early hours of the morning around 4am, in the front room of a house. From the various alcohol bottles and cans strewn around the room and young people in their early 20’s either passed out on the floor or occupying the sofa, looking ill, it is clear that there has been a party. A rather bedraggled guy called Dan gets up and tells the room that he is going to bed, as he leaves the room and descends the stairs, the camera follows him. He walks into the master bedroom, and falls onto the bed exhausted, but then realises that there is already someone inside so he pulls back the cover. Cameron lies inside dead covered in blood – he has been murdered. A close up of Dan’s reaction followed by a big white flash of light leads to a flash-back sequence of the party in its early stages and the possible killers and motives.

By Amy Meitiner, producer.

Noir opening cinematography

The cinematography for this piece will be different at different parts of the film opening, at the start when the party is dying down the camera work will be normal with long shots, close ups and different angles to show the emotions and conversations, it is like this until the body of cameron is discovered, the flashbacks then start. For the flashbacks the camera shots will all be point of view to show what the character Dan is showing as it is his flashback, the shots will long a lot of the time to get everything that is happening, and they will be shot from different places where the action is taking place, they will be in any area a person could be to see the action. The shots are all point of view to show the craziness and drunkenness of the party and to make sure the audience don’t see anything that Dan doesn’t see as we are seeing what he has seen at the party. All the shots will be wobbly and wonky to show it is from the view point of a drunken Dan. At the end of the film the shots will return to not being point-of-view to show that the flashbacks have stopped, there will be more close-ups to show the emotions of the people when the dead body of cameron is discovered and when Dan is discovered with the body.