Editing session

After our shoot with our new actor, I edited in all of the credits that we would need. I focused on text placement, and what would look best within the frame and composition.

Also, music was edited in with the help of Kelly, with the pace being slowed down and faster according to what is needed, to match the pace.

Production log 03

Where: Maddie H's house
Who: Maddie H, Niamh, George
Equipment: DSLR
Purpose: Recording narrative for male victims death

This sequence happened due to the narrative changing - we originally planned for the death to happen in a bar, but changed the narrative so our protagonist seduced and killed a man back at her home. This made it a lot easier to scout out a location, as all of our houses had what we needed. However, we found my house had the best lighting and look with many blocky colours. As we needed to shoot all the scenes of the the seduction and man's death, we expected this would take the two hours allocated. We were correct, and everything was shot, with room for re-shooting if we felt necessary.

There were little issues with this shoot as we had all the props necessary, and most of our issues were with performance and lighting. As my kitchen is mostly glass, the unpredictability of the lighting on a cloudy day caused issues, meaning if we had to wait a couple times to wait for the sun to come back out. Also, since neither of the actors were professional actors, we had a few performance issues and both needed to be coached. 

Shooting 03

After changing our idea from being in a bar to the home, we asked another boy to play our man. We re-shot most of the scenes and turned it into a sequence where he is lead upstairs, and comes to his eventual death.

Shooting went well, and it was all successful. We shot the whole sequence within two hours with room to change some our ideas originally. Most of the shots we shot were in focus and very little had to be changed.

Sound progress

The four tracks we have chosen come from the artist Milton Arias, from the album 64 Antel del Fin. Our final four tracks that we are choosing from are:

• Gordo Jose
• Poldoro
• Gracias
• Quirquincho

The song we have chosen to use is Quirquincho, however we will have to mess around with the tempo and speed to make it fit the pace of our title sequence. We chose it due to it's simple and slightly creepy undertones.

We also did a small tally around our class to see which one was the winner:

Cast

Mother/"Mrs. Cloutier" - Sharon Stone
Because of Sharon's age, she could fulfil the motherly role for our film. Also, because of her role in Basic Instincts (1992), she has been linked to this genre before and would reprise the role of her mother well.

Father/"Mr. Cloutier" - Tom Hanks
We chose Tom Hanks due to his previous fatherly roles in films such as Forrest Gump (1994) and much more serious-toned films such as The Da Vinci Code (2006), Tom Hanks understanding of both genres would lead to an entertaining performance in Woman's Bane.







Female lead/"Violet Cloutier" - Gal Gadot
Gal Gadot is a rising star, with her role in Batman VS Superman (2016) and her upcoming role as Wonder Woman in (2017). Also, she is beautiful, which would make it easy for her victims to fall in love with her.




Detective - Morgan Freeman
Morgan Freeman has played many detective roles before, for example in Se7en (1995). He is known for being a serious actor and reprises the roles well.









Victim - Adam Gregory
Adam Gregory is a relatively attractive man who would fit the role well of being murdered, due to the fact Violet attracts good looking men. Adam is also an upcoming star, having featured in films like 17 Again (2009).

Death changes

After talking with our teacher, we have completely re-vamped the death scene. Instead of it being shot in a bar, we have decided to have our female villain take his victim back to her house to kill him there. With this, it now means we can use the bedroom which has obvious connotations of sexual activity attached to it. Also, since the kitchen in my house is refined, we are using that.




This will make filming a lot easier with minimal setup needed, meaning we can get straight into filming. Hopefully, these will be the shots we need to complete our title sequence.

Production Log

Whilst filming this sequence, we decided we needed change the location of where it was shot so it fit in a lot better with our whole bar idea. It took us a long time to actually set up the scene, which ate heavily into our filming time. We allocated two hours to filming this, which still wasn't enough time to film, but we had to use the footage that we could. The idea was the same, of our protagonist seducing a male and killing him, however some scenes had to be left out due to the time constraints.

Acting wasn't an issue, but since we had to use my hands and then the rest of Niamh's body we had to keep swapping roles, which also ate up time. Another difficulty was the lighting, as it wasn't perfectly black, with the light box reflecting on the wall. This ruined the whole feel of our sequence, and people commented that it looked too dark anyways.

Death scene #2

After our criticisms from our teacher, we took her advice and went into one of the drama rooms to film the same scenes again with the black background and red scenes to create connotations of sultry and sophistication. However, with time constraints we had within the room, we found it difficult to film all the scenes, alongside other issues. Below is the final setup we used, with the lighting how we wanted it.



Also, here are all the props that were used during filming:



One of the many difficulties that we had was the lighting. Whilst one light was too dark, we felt as if two lights was too bright and was not giving us the shadows we wanted. We chose to go with one light, and use phone flashlights if necessary.

We also had spent a lot of time setting up the stage, with us having to iron a set piece and also keep it all in the correct places with tape. This took up a lot of our time, leaving us with perhaps only an hour to film.

Whilst some of what we shot was very cinematic and looked beautiful, it was not what we exactly had in mind, therefore leading to some changes for when  we next shoot.