Here are the answered i promised i would post, i have given them a lot of thought and hopefully they work out fine in the end! I have found out that my so-called idea of my OTS to be traditional and stereotypical of a film noir isn't actually going to be a strong part of my OTS as i thought. Having one person to play all of my characters and having 3 femme fatales isn't very conventional. So here we go...
1. The reason for me to have one character playing all of my characters is to give the impression that all wealthy people think the same things and have the same personality. I don't really believe this but creating a stereotype of what a rich person is like, i think it would be interesting and good to experiment on.
2. In the last lesson we had, we were explained to about the 20 second rule. You can have 20 seconds of a certain song and its okay, you can also have that song playing out of a radio (if only my radio was 1950's!) as if the character is listening to that song from the radio. For my OTS, i think I'm going to use the 20-second rule but other music that i use i will have to possible mix it myself, by putting two tracks onto each other - therefore creating a new desired sound.
3. Ah, this problem. I do have other people who i can dress up as a character while my actress is also in the shot. So i will have to use another person but try not to show their faces or anything that might give their identity away - hence creating the mysterious and subtly unidentifiable impression of a character.
4. I have given this bit a lot of thought, i decided that at night and in winter, people wouldn't be silly enough to walk round the streets? Maybe some people would, but i also thought that i wanted to use a lot of close-up shots and of feet walking to keep the killer unidentifiable. I have realised that the time when we are all meant to be filming is in winter and there is a high chance of ice and snow to be on the ground. This could work in my favour for helping create the cold and harsh atmosphere but it could work against me as my actress could be quite cold and walking on the ice might not be the most glamorous situation she has been in! I'm not really going to get shots of just the street, i will only shoot where the victim is walking. I discovered that there is actually a telephone box in the street where i am filming! YAY, soo helpful! Behind this telephone box are railings and a big curving tree which would look very atmospheric in the dark. I probably wont get a shot of the character in the telephone box, i will probably just have a still shot of the telephone box with the audience just hearing the phone call.
5. Well, the title is in french because i do think it adds to the mystery and sophistication i am trying to portray, and if this was a real film that was being made and it would be sold on the shelves, i think it will look different from any other DVD. It could be linked to the fact that if the title is unknown to the audience, the killer is also unknown to the audience. 'L'amour est le tueur' means 'love is the killer'. Somebody did bring up a good point in feedback asking if i would give any indication of love in my OTS. I have decided to purposely make each connection with the female characters and my male character very equal. My male character will have no more of an attraction to one femme fatale to another - this is to make the possibility of the audience guessing who the killer is slim.
Hopefully these are the last of my problems, but my idea of having one person playing all of my characters will have to be tried and tested and if it doesn't work, it can always be changed. I need to see if it works before i quit, it can either go one way or the other! Bonne chance à moi!
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