Oct. 4th- skills make kills in the editing room later

WHAT HAPPENED TODAY

While Amarik was still developing the script, the rest of us tried to improve our knowledge and understanding of our specific roles. Mine, being cinematography, involved quite a bit of research on a lot of lighting effects. This was because after watching a few film noir movies and a lot of clips, I've discovered that the shadows in many scenes are cast with very hard edges, no matter what the atmosphere is there are always hard lights and shadow. It's a fair assumption to make that these shadows come from harsh lighting. That is, with a proper set of lights (usually 3-point, I gather). Even if we weren't going to use a lot of lighting before (we were) this was the final push. I also took a few small notes about the sound and soundtrack.

IB LEARNER PROFILE

Today's lesson, since it was mostly a standalone for each of us to work on our own roles, was all about inquiry. Not just in the sense of asking questions about my topic but investigating and researching more, that's what inquiry is about I think. It's an important trait for research, taking in walls of text from Wikipedia isn't the only way to go.

NOTES

-dramatic moments have dramatic slow zooms to accompany them with harsh, harder light
-shadows cast are actually sharply outlined
-even when the scene is calm and 'relaxing' there are softer lights but COUPLED WITH HARD LIGHTS
-sOUNDTRACK NOTE: tangerine, used in the 1940s and 50s for film noir- popular choice- used in double indemnity and sorry, wrong number (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgavV9phYgM ?? LOOK AT SUGGESTIONS FOR MORE N VIDEO)
-LA noire???
-Royalty free music: Kevin Macleod?????