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Today we went to a village near us called Bygrave and filmed the changeover scene which is actually part of the film as a flashback. We got there at about half past 9 this morning and were there for an hour! We had to make sure we had lots of different camera shots; close ups, long shot, mid shots, extreme close ups to create more of a dramatic effect.
The weather was foggy today and it was perfect for the scene. I felt
it really brought out the mysterious edge that surrounds our character of Bonnie.
Here is a photograph of Ellen here in her lovely red dress, black 50's style hat and an old fashioned bag.
Her hair is curly for the scene because that is typical of the 50's women and her red lipstick completes the femme fatale look.
As you can see the background is very suspicious, much like her character!
The box is perfect for what we want - we found it in the drama department's closet at school! It's just classy enough to look like someone as posh as bonnie
would have it, but also simple enough to be used for such a criminalized task, such as this one.
The envelope has things printed on it - of course you won't see the exact words close up but the initiation of a stamp on the back gives the impression that it has perhaps come from afar, and therefore is valuable.
Here as you can see we are on set and i'm giving a thumb signal to Ellen so that we don't have to cut 'action' out of the clips! The slight wind in the weather made her dress and curls flow slightly which created a really nice effect.
As you can only see the back of Toby's head in the clips of the film, we have used him in order to decrease the use of other actors. This means we all have a role in the film which is of equal part, across editing, filming and acting.
Toby is of course dressed in the usual film noir attire of a suit. We chose his stance to be a strong
one and him to be facing away from the camera so nothing detracts from Bonnie, but also keeps the mystery in the scene.
During the editing we will firstly put the clips in black and white, and using the variety of shots we have collected including close up, long shot, tracking shot and cut away shots into an effect of a flashback so we keep the mystery of the woman well presented, but reveal her wrong-doings. By making the individual shots quite short it means we still don't get a chance to see her completely and so still suspect her and remain uneasy about her character.
EDITING PROCESS:
This scene fades in from the scene between Bobby and Carter as Bobby tells of Bonnie's ways. She is shown completely from the front in a mid shot walking across the shot which automatically tells the audience she is being revealed here because she has not been introduced with her face so quickly in any scene so far. Along with the fade in, the music used in the restaurant scene fades in too. The scene has no dialogue so the music can be quite dominating over the clips. Because the same music is used here as was used when the two characters go on a date we link it with her deceit of the detective and know from it that he will be hurt to find out what she is doing in this scene.
Even though Bonnie is immediately revealed it then goes on to show her from behind, but the idea of this is to have the focus on the box in her hand. The cut away shot of her body allows this focus to happen. A quick cut from her walking towards a figure facing away from us in the distance to her actually swapping her box for an envelope in a long shot makes the audience suspicious because of the sudden distance from her, and also know she is doing 'wrong' because we don't know who the person she is dealing with is and what they are doing.
Because she makes direct eye contact with the viewer we know she has done something she is proud of because she acknowledges the envelope and then us to let us know she has succeeded.
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