Writing the Script

It seemed that writing a 1920s script was much harder than I had thought. Therefore, I decided to find out some research on the language that they used in this time. I had found the below video on YouTube and had discovered exactly what I wanted the background story to be. The video helped me to think of an enigma and categorise why the femme fatale had killed her lover. The background story will be the anti-hero being a Private Detector and the femme fatale had tried to win him over to take her case: her sister in law had gone missing with her husbands money. Whilst the Private Detector and the femme fatale are working together on the case the femme fatale falls deeply in love with him, despite having a very rich gangster husband. She cried out for the Detective and they have a passionate affair. Although it seems the Detective uncovers some mystery to the femme fatales unclear story and does not want to be with her anymore. Revealing this, the femme fatale becomes jealous in anger and strikes him down, as she believes if she cannot have his love nobody can.

The video will not allow me to embed it to my blog but the link can be seen below:
https://youtu.be/Ae7GfTIvZjE 

Tutorials

I had found these hair and makeup tutorials to really define my mise-en-scene more for costume rather than just props being used. I have many props to add to the production however, I would like to have more on the makeup and costume side of the props. In the 1920's costume and makeup were a large thing for females, you can see this on an earlier post named 'Research for OTS'. The below video is what I will use to create the rough 1920s hairdo that will be shown in my production, it is quick and simple and I can make it look scruffy as my femme fatale needs to be upset and almost drunk. This hairstyle will be perfect.




This below video I will use the simple makeup ideas as they are very sophisticated and elegant, yet very subtle. This works well with the period that it is made from. Both videos were very useful and I am glad that I decided to look on YouTube for short tutorials as these were very helpful in understanding the look needed to pull-off the time period.

Sound Techniques

 

We have been challenged by our teacher to create some foleying techniques that we would use in our productions. As a class we watched the opening of Priest (in silence) and had written all the sound devices that we think we may have heard. When it came to watching it over again (this time with sound) we realised that there were so many more sound effects in the background that we would not have understood unless we could hear. The video below is showing a way in which foley artists are used in the media industry and one way that they add the sounds.


I found this extremely useful to watch as it gave me ideas in which I could create some foley sounds. The picture below is of the white board that we had written all the 45 sounds we had heard in the beginning of Priest. Our aim is to now create as many of these sounds as we can and attach to our blogs.

Here I have added a Prezi of my own to show different types of sounds and techniques. I have included definitions for all so that the audience can understand the vocabulary, as I found it tricky when I first discovered it.