Use of Camera and Equipment in Film Takes

Evidence of filming production

In my first week of filming when using the DLSR Canon camera to film our film noir, I had set up the camera and tripod to the appropriate height to capture my footage. The camera was not the only equipment I had used as i had to create a set design. To do this in order to cinematize our production, I had used a black box studio with black sheets to canvas the setting of an interrogation room for our first scene. The black sheets had covered any speck of original setting as we wanted it to represent a place of interrogation and punishment, hence the blankness of the set. The film takes were taken in low key lighting as we wanted to convey the genre conventions of a film noir and interpreted light to mystery and suspense as the audience do not know the answers of what this man (Dre) is capable of. For the first scene we had operated our sound equipment so we had good quality of dialogue. 

A few days after filming this footage we had planned to film our second scene involving Ava and Dre where Ava had set up for them both to meet up in the middle of the night. I had changed the original lighting of the location in the music room with studio lighting which I covered with an orange filter to make the shot look like it was filmed in the past as I wanted to display a flashback. Both types of lighting were completely different, however i wanted to create a more cinematic lighting set. I also included a Venetian blind which epitomises the generic conventions of a film noir. It being apart of our mise-en-scene illustrates the dramatic shadows in the room. It examines the life on the wrong side of the tracks as in this scene their criminal conscience is revealed towards the end of the scene. At the back of the studio lights i had placed a black sheet on the wall to create darkness on the other side as i wanted to create a window. This dark sheet represents the dark night and the time they are meeting each other. In this scene we mainly operated on our lighting as we used redhead lights and also added the orange filter over.