Today it was time to film the the femme fatale scene, a common counterpart of Film Noir. We decided to use the dark room, one of the locations that actually stayed the same, but then we were faced with the issue of lighting it! If we turned all the lights on, everything in this cluttered room would be visible when we really just wanted a kind of 'sketchy, warehouse' effect. This problem was easily resolved by getting hold of three office lamps, and covering one with a sheet of clear red paper to give me (I was also playing the femme fatale) a warm and inviting glow.
We thought today was actually quite successful, getting everything done- but as we were importing it to the computer our teacher pointed out that we had positioned our lights wrong so my lips were actually in shadow, when a full pair of red lips were as important to a femme fatale, as a femme fatale is important to Film Noir. We rescheduled filming for the next day, feeling pretty annoyed that we had wasted a whole day- but we decided that only me and the resident camera man, Alex, would film the reshoots leaving Ky and James to try their hand at editing the material that we already had. I believe this is probably the most systematic way of doing things, and as not to waste more time- we'll make sure we divide the roles in the group equally.
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