Evaluation

An Evaluation Of Blood Noir And The Dead Man

During the making of the films, we decided to make one a drama thriller about a murder and detective, shot in the style, and in parody, of a film noir. The second film, The Dead Man, was shot hyper-realistically and in a mainly POV type way. We did this to give both films a sense of character and to use the films as metaphors for the characters themselves. Blood Noir being a steady-cam, black and white film gave it stability and a sense of professional production and also symbolises the hard-fact-based nature of the detective, David Doyle. We made the second film hyper-realistic to convey the madness inside of our murderer, Bogart Bates, and the hand-held sporadic movement creates an uneasiness throughout the film that is meant to seduce the viewer into a state of         almost-fear. We also used contrapuntal music in The Dead Man to reinforce this.

However, the production of the film had several hiccups. Firstly, we struggled to get a concrete base of ideas to start filming, where some groups had already began filming, we were still creating characters and plot. Secondly, we had to change the script several times as we couldn't film several scenes involving murder, as we had no locations or props to use for the mise-en-scene. This also happened when our animator, animating these scenes, was not able to bring the footage, or lack of, in, and so we had to re-shoot and re-write the film to make it possible. Finally, this caused us to start editing behind schedule and therefore were late with finishing the films.

In conclusion, the film itself was not an issue to edit or film, but it was in fact the issue of keeping up to a time restraint and not reacting quick enough or at some points appropriately enough to catch up, leaving our group in a constant state of nervousness.