We managed to crack the second take of femme fatale filming in about half an hour, which was alot quicker than we anticipated. I imagine that it was because was knew exactly what were doing as most of the planning was done the day before. We knew what shots we wanted and how we wanted them done- totally remembering to keep the red lips. I had saw a film from doing some internet night before called Double Indemnity from 1944, making it a 'real' film noir. Barbara Stanwyck played the femme fatale, a woman trying to convince a man to kill her husband- claiming she'd split the money with him. On a level, this mirrored the relationship between out femme fatale and the 'shady guy' on the phone. Because of this incorperated sunglasses into our scene, and tried to mirror some of the close up camera shots- allowing the audience to be immediately 'invited' to build a relationship with the femme fatale very early on.
To make the most of the lesson time we had, we pulled James and Ky up from editing and lead them to a disused warehouse about 10 minutes walk from our college. Here we were going to do a scene to open the film, a point of view shot of Ky (as the 'shady guy') running towards an outbuilding and putting his hand on the door. Inside of the outbuilding would actually be our school backstage area!
We told him to keep the camera loose in his hand to create a disillusioned effect so common to Film Noir. This is used in the first scene of the Neo-Noir, Brick. It looked extremely effective and we got back in time to edit all of our footage to black and white, and up the contrast and shading! Our footage looks absolutely beautiful!
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