More Problems with Scheduling & Film Noir Research

We have to film after spring break because we do not have time. We are going to film April 2 because we have no school because of testing, so we have the whole day to film. That would mean we have about 1 week to edit. Because of this, we are going to start the flyer and website and try to finish it before we have to edit. 

We have also decided to make it a film noir so we don't have to dye the doll's hair, and it will  add a stylistic element to the film. Taylor is also trying to find a way to use that song we want in the film. Hopefully she is able to, but we need to look up more audio to use. I hope that we are able to stick to this schedule and have enough time to work on everything. 

According to this website, film noirs have "An oppressive atmosphere of menace, pessimism, anxiety, suspicion that anything can go wrong, dingy realism, futility, fatalism, defeat and entrapment were stylized characteristics of film noir. The protagonists in film noir were normally driven by their past or by human weakness to repeat former mistakes."

This goes well with our film because our main character is suspicious and is driven by the human weakness of loneliness. Our main character also corresponds to this website where they describe a film noir character as "a loner, introverted, troubled, hard-boiled, pessimistic. He is not the conventional film hero, confident/exceptional/certain, but rather average and conventional, often is a war veteran or detective, and is defined by his ability to survive and restore normality."

Because "The iconography of noir uses dark sidewalks, rain-drenched streets, flashing neon signs, fairgrounds and carnivals (associated with madness in German expressionism), the city as villain dangerous/hostile, the border town or the casino, imagery of water and alcohol that represent merging and release rather than fragmentation and blockage." This means when we film the scene of Amber walking, we need to make sure it is dark and put a puddle on the ground to align more with the genre.