I am now about to introduce to you my ideas on what I hope to achieve / do in the editing department. As we know the final project that has been set to us is to film an opening sequence to a “Film Noir”, once this has been achieved then I have to edit the sequence so that it makes sense and seems like a real opening to a film.
As we all know, film noirs are tense, dark and ambiguous, this is what makes them a genre of their own and they create this effect by using shadows and noises. Black and white is normally used in film noirs but recently some films have got the traditional film noir effects, situations and characters, but instead of having it in black and white, they have used colour, but instead of the colour being bright and bold, they have either used dark colours or by editing, unsaturated the colour so that it is not so bright, which then gives off the darkness effect.
In our project I hope to achieve the same principle, because we are in the modern society it only seems natural if the opening sequence is in colour. I hope to be able to unsaturate the colours so that it gives off the traditional film noir effect. In our opening sequence there is an interrogation where the main character (Jason Brown) is being accused of murder, unfortunately for Jason’s case he is in fact innocent but has been framed, during the interrogation Jason is being asked questions about where he was, who he was with etc... On that night, during the questions Jason has flashbacks to that night showing where he was and what he was doing.
What I hope to achieve is a cold and gloomy effect during the flashbacks to make it uncomfortable for the audience to look at, this is because traditionally film noirs use effects to make the audience feel uncomfortable to create tension, this is one of the things you can do to get the audience glued to the film. When the flashbacks appear, in between I am going to have some sort of whoosh or space effect sound, this is because that is what is most commonly used in films/TV shows when there is a transition from a scene to a flashback, there is also a video transition where either a white flash transitions from one scene to a flashback, or the scene dissolves into the flashback, I would prefer to use the white flash because it seems more effective than a dissolve transition.
The titles that I shall be using will go in between the phone call at the start and the interrogation, this will emphasize that time has passed between the phone call and the interrogation with Jason Brown. When the titles are in show I am going to play a piece of music over the top, this is so that there is some sound to listen to, if not all you would see is titles across the screen which isn’t very interesting on its own.
As we all know, film noirs are tense, dark and ambiguous, this is what makes them a genre of their own and they create this effect by using shadows and noises. Black and white is normally used in film noirs but recently some films have got the traditional film noir effects, situations and characters, but instead of having it in black and white, they have used colour, but instead of the colour being bright and bold, they have either used dark colours or by editing, unsaturated the colour so that it is not so bright, which then gives off the darkness effect.
In our project I hope to achieve the same principle, because we are in the modern society it only seems natural if the opening sequence is in colour. I hope to be able to unsaturate the colours so that it gives off the traditional film noir effect. In our opening sequence there is an interrogation where the main character (Jason Brown) is being accused of murder, unfortunately for Jason’s case he is in fact innocent but has been framed, during the interrogation Jason is being asked questions about where he was, who he was with etc... On that night, during the questions Jason has flashbacks to that night showing where he was and what he was doing.
What I hope to achieve is a cold and gloomy effect during the flashbacks to make it uncomfortable for the audience to look at, this is because traditionally film noirs use effects to make the audience feel uncomfortable to create tension, this is one of the things you can do to get the audience glued to the film. When the flashbacks appear, in between I am going to have some sort of whoosh or space effect sound, this is because that is what is most commonly used in films/TV shows when there is a transition from a scene to a flashback, there is also a video transition where either a white flash transitions from one scene to a flashback, or the scene dissolves into the flashback, I would prefer to use the white flash because it seems more effective than a dissolve transition.
The titles that I shall be using will go in between the phone call at the start and the interrogation, this will emphasize that time has passed between the phone call and the interrogation with Jason Brown. When the titles are in show I am going to play a piece of music over the top, this is so that there is some sound to listen to, if not all you would see is titles across the screen which isn’t very interesting on its own.
