Production Meeting

As i commented in my first post, my group consists of Suzanne, Marc and I. We have had our first group meeting, which involved deciding our individual roles and how we would contribute to the production.
We will have the following roles;
Charlie- Art Director and producer
Suzi-Script, director and sound
Marc-Cinematography and editing

Today we also presented and discussed our individual synopsises for the Noir, we brainstormed our ideas together and finally came up with a short synopsis for the film;

It is a story about a newly married couple who are travelling on a train after their wedding when suddenly the train is in a horrific accident, the bride (Kate) body is lost however her husband (Clive) survives but has severe memory loss. A young woman (Bea) also on the train decides to take on Kate’s life, pretending to Clive she is his wife. She soon gets welcomed into his family but soon a policeman realises what has happened and starts to follow Bea’s trail, but she seduces him and eventually murders him, to cover up her tracks she gets involved with the dark drug gang scene. Throughout the film Clive slowly starts to get his memory back and starts questioning his relationship with Bea. In the final scene everything gets too much and she kills Clive but karma comes back around as Kate isn’t really dead and she murders Bea.

Then we decided to write the narrative for the opening scene;

A young woman is standing in a dark, old fashioned bedroom. In front of her is a large mirror and a dressing table, there are two long candles lit on it. Her makeup is smudged and it is obvious she has been crying, as her eyes are bloodshot. She is breathing heavily, and shaking trying to hold on tight to a wine bottle. Tears start to fall from her jet black eyes and her face goes pale. She watches herself in the mirror and chugs down a of wine, without stopping once, she looks into the mirror and wipes away her tears, she hesitates as she checks her reflection, and she sighs and brushes down her dress. She then looks long and hard into the mirror. Suddenly a dark shadowed woman in a wedding dress appears behind her reflection in the mirror; she lets out a high pitched scream and turns around. However when she does no one is there, she is shaking and breathing fast and heavy. She turns back around and picks up her bottle, then you just see her eyes, they are wide open and her heart stops beating. In the final scene you see the wine glass fall and smash and there is red blood/wine and a black shadow on the wall.

After discussing this with Jon, my AS media teacher, he said it was a brilliant idea for a synopsis but didn't really show the conventions and charcteristics for a Film Noir, he suggested we try to add some flashbacks (maybe of the wedding or train crash?) and also that the idea of the woman in the bride's dress's reflection may represent a horror movie rather than film noir, and that maybe we should make it appear more realistic.