Production schedule

Satan is a lady production schedule

Monday 1^st Feb 2010: Start filming at location (Gemmas house) Gemma Frankland, Gemma Harborne, Kelly Perks and Lauren Elcocks.

Thursday 4^th Feb 2010: Continue filming at location.(Gemmas house) Gemma Frankland, Gemma Harborne, Kelly Perks and Lauren Elcocks. Add any scenes that haven’t already been filmed.

Monday 8th Feb 2010: Continue filming at location.(Gemmas house) Gemma Frankland, Gemma Harborne, Kelly Perks and Lauren Elcocks. Repeat filming of scenes to ensure there is enough material.

Thursday 11^th Feb 2010: Start editing in Mac suite at college. Gemma Frankland, Gemma Harborne, Kelly Perks and Lauren Elcocks.

Monday 15^th Feb 2010: Continue editing in Mac suite at college. Gemma Frankland, Gemma Harborne, Kelly Perks and Lauren Elcocks.

Thursday 18th Feb 2010: Continue editing in Mac suite at college. Gemma Frankland, Gemma Harborne, Kelly Perks and Lauren Elcocks.

Monday 22^nd Feb 2010: Continue editing in Mac suite at college. Gemma Frankland, Gemma Harborne, Kelly Perks and Lauren Elcocks.

Thursday 25^th Feb 2010: Continue editing in Mac suite at college. Gemma Frankland, Gemma Harborne, Kelly Perks and Lauren Elcocks.

Monday 1^st March 2010: Re-record any scenes that may need to be re-done. (Gemmas house) Gemma Frankland, Gemma Harborne, Kelly Perks and Lauren Elcocks.

Thursday 4^th March 2010: Continue editing in Mac suite at college. Gemma Frankland, Gemma Harborne, Kelly Perks and Lauren Elcocks.

Monday 8^th March 2010: Continue editing in Mac suite at college. Gemma Frankland, Gemma Harborne, Kelly Perks and Lauren Elcocks.

Thursday 11^th March 2010: Finish all editing in Mac suite at college. Gemma Frankland, Gemma Harborne, Kelly Perks and Lauren Elcocks.

Satan is a lady script.

Janet:

(lights cigarette and inhales smoke)

When you start to accuse someone of murder, especially someone of high status, people think you’re unstable. Your family shun you and you end up losing everything.

But I know I’m right.

I know she poisoned him. With those crocodile tears, she had them fooled. I always knew what she was like, but my brother just couldn’t see it.

I found him. Slumped in a chair, glass shattered.

(Tear runs down face)

Why wont they listen to me?

(Begins to get hysterical)

I’m not unstable. I’m right. I wont forgive, I wont forget. She will pay, with her jewels and Prada; she’s not above us.

Wrapped around her little finger, I’m not taking the bait.

She can go to hell.

Equipment list

Equipment list

Before starting to film we needed to figure out the equipment that we would need.

· Camera : The choice of :

a Sony Hc-5

a Canon MD- 205

Canon MD 101

Canon MD235

Tripod ( to hold camera still)

Props :

Wine glass - ( for poisoning)

Bottle of alcohol (to pour into the glass)

Small tablet bottle ( for poisoning)

Dissolvable tablets or sweets (for poisoning)

Cigarettes ( to give the impression the lady is 'bad')

Tape ( for recording )

Cast list

Douglas Reeves. Played by Gemma Frankland.

By using a female for a male role, we are concealing their identity. We are only going to show the back of them, slumped down in a chair.

Gemma will wear a cap with her hair piled underneath, trousers, a short and a blazer to complete the look, and concealing the fact that she is female.

This will also happen with the black and white tone of the scene, hiding any obvious signs of the character being a woman.

Janet Reeves. Played by Lauren Elcocks.

We are only filming the mouth of this character, so only minimal makeup will be used. By just filming the mouth, this conceals her identity and adds to the mystery of the film.

Coco L’etale. Played by Gemma Harborne.

We are only filming hands and feet of this character, to again conceal the identity of the murderer, and add the mystery to the opening scene.

She plays an important role as she is the cause of Janet’s breakdown, creating a plot for the film.

The Opening Scene

Using the genre of Film Noir Satan is a lady is a typical example of this genre and uses many factors of the Film Noir mise-en-scene.
It plays on the mind of the audience with a sense of the detective genre, whilst still creating the menacing aura of a 50’s crime. It makes you think, re-analyse your view on it and follow the characters through the story.

Satan is a lady begins with a simple opening. Femme fatale is introduced straight away; clearly showing the audience that the film is going to be female dominated. The lips of a woman are shown, emphasising the seductive nature of women in Film Noir. By hiding her face, this adds mystery and you are left unaware of her part in the film.
The shadowed lighting and black and white picture is typical of Film Noir mise-en-scene and can hide a lot from the audience, only to have it revealed at the end with a sudden twist.
During this characters monologue, we cut to small scenes of a crime taking place. As this film is of the crime genre, it brings the film together. The crime involves an estranged wife poisoning her husband in order to gain insurance money, but by filming it in a certain way, the identities are hidden from the audience and keep them guessing.
We are going to mainly film hands and legs of the characters in these small scenes, as you can never identify a person from these body parts, and with the use of props we are going to be able to make it look like a classical Film Noir.
As the woman talking is shown in colour, showing a sense of modernised filming, the scenes of the crime taking place are going to be in black and white to show the past occurrence, as the female talking is describing it in the present tense.

Through the opening you are unawares of who is speaking due to the mise-en-scene of the film, and the dialogue isn’t going to give anything away, in order to maintain the mystery and suspense.
The end of this opening finishes with the woman going silent and blood trickling from the corner of her mouth. This would suggest foul play, but you don’t see what happens next or who did it.
By filming this section in colour, you get the full effect of the red of the blood and lipstick, as you would in the modernised Film Noir, Sin City.

Throughout we maintain suspense, and the ending draws you in and makes you want to find out what happens to the woman or ‘who-dun-it’.

Target Audience of our crime film

Satan is a Lady

As we are basing our film around the Film Noir genre, we have decided to make our film’s certificate a 15, due to the subtle violence, but no gore, and no explicit sexual scenes. The main reason we have chosen to certificate it as a 15 is due to the swearing that will be involved, and older scenes such as the murder the film is based upon, and more violent murders throughout the film.

The target audience of our film is mainly young adults from 15 to 25years of age, but the content and storyline are appropriate for older age groups, and it won’t be find boring or too immature for the older audience.

The femme fatale will appeal to the male viewers, whilst the plot and oth

er aspects of the film such as scenes of romance or female dominance over the men will appeal to the female viewers.

Name of film.

The name that we’ve chosen for our film is Satan is a lady. This is because we researched past crime films and found that a lot of them had quite intense names such as ‘Each dawn I die’, ‘Angels with dirty faces’ and ‘Stranger on the third floor’. We originally opted for a single word title but we felt that this was more successful in capturing the film Noir essence without giving too much away. The title Satan is a lady refers to the strong female roles in our film, which is typical of the film Noir genre.