28. Aural diagram

-00.02 two shadows (a male and a female), the male lights the female's cigarette
-00.04 the two main actors names come up on the screen next to each other (Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall)
-00.10 in "The Big Sleep" comes on the screen in very large characters.
-00.14 A Howard Hawks Production
-00.18 list of all secondary actors
-00.25 list of all secondary actors (others)
-00.29 Screen play by... and from the novel by....
-00.34 director of photography and manny other "titles"
-00.42 Music By Max Steiner
-00.45 Directed by Howard hawks

29. Sound in our Film Noir

In our Film Noir we are using a soundtrack as the background music in the opening sequence together with Foley sounds to enhance the audio quality of the following sounds:

-Foot steps

-painful grunt

-noise of knife stabbing into the body, through clothing of the victim

-victim’s heavy body dropping to the ground

-camera flash and noise of pictures take by press

-police radio operating

-ambulence car siren in the background

-sound of tape set around the crime scene

27. Storyboard

here's the storyboard of our opening 2-3 minutes of film.

26. Narrative Theories

VLADMIR PROPP

Russian Critic and literary theorist.

He thins that it’s possible to classify the characters and their actions into clearly defined roles and functions.

Films such as Star Wars fit his model perfectly but a significant number of other films, such as Pulp Fiction, do not. The model is useful as it highlights the similarities between seemingly different stories.

PROPP’S CHARACTER ROLES

HERO: SEEKS SOMETHING

VILLAIN: OPPOSES HERO

DONOR: HELPS HERO BY PROVIDING OBJECT

DISPATCHER: SENDS HERO ON THEIR WAY

HELPER: SUPPORTS HERO

PRINCESS: REWARD FOR THE HERO, NEEDS PROTECTION FROM THE VILLAIN

TZVETAN TODOROV

EQUILIBRIUM —- DISEQUILIBRIUM —- NEW EQUILIBRIUM

ROLAND BARTHES

ACTION: Narrative device in which a resolution is found through action.                       Like a fight.

ENIGMA: Narrative device that teases audience with a puzzle to find the                        resolution.

SYMBOLIC: (Connotation)

SEMIC: (Denotation)

CULTURAL: Narrative device that the audience can recognise as a culture.

CLAUDE LEVI-STRAUSS

BINARY OPPOSITIONS

HOMESTEADERS     –     NATIVES

CHRISTIANS     –     PAGANS

DOMESTIC     –     SAVAGE

WEAK     –     STRONG

24. Key elements checklist for opening

What key elements we would need to include in our Film Noir opening to conform to the expectations of the genre, audience and a film opening

Checklist:

-Film titles

-dark alley (setting for the murder scene)

-mysterious murderer in long trench coat and hat

-knife (weapon of the murderer)

–build up tension by score (mysterious Film Noir themes music) page 6 : Final transgression

-strong contrast street lighting

-transition into daylight showing the bodybag of the victim

-showing the crime scene investigated with the detective doing his job and holding his character as a cold hearted anti hero status

-crime scene tape

-at the crime scene the femme fatale, elegantly dressed observing the detective to plan on seducing him with her charms

25. Storyline of the whole film

In the start, a man wearing black is walking in a dark street, he is following another man with the intention to kill him, he succeeds and escapes the murder scene without being seen. The day after the case is being investigated by Detective Will Carlson whom is faced with a very difficult situation as there are no witnesses. After some investigations in the area he finds out that the victim is the son of mafia boss in Brooklyn, Luigi Palazzetto, at this point Detective Carlson narrows it down and realizes that the murder was planned and that it must have been someone who is fighting a war against the Palazzetto family in Brooklyn. He meets Alison foster (Palazzetto), who in reality is the sister of the deceased son of Luigi Palazzetto, she was sent by her father to find out who killed his son and to then kill him before the detective found him and sent him to jail. She obviously falls in love with Mr Carlson whom loves her as well, but then he finds out about her past as a Hit-Woman. However,  he doesn't realize that she is part of the Palazzetto family. Alison's heart is broken and she starts going crazy, she follows the detective around secretly with hope of finding the murderer of her brother. In the end Detective Carlson finds the murderer hiding in his basement, he arrests him and brings him back to his car. Alison, who is parked right behind the detective's car thunders out of her car, brings out her revolver and shoots both in the head.

23. Stairway Production Ident

This is our Production Ident, we did it this way because we love Led Zeppelin