During the course of around three college hours, I and four other college students consisting of my team were tasked with shooting and editing our own short film which had to have consisted of more than 10 shots. The genre of the film we had to create was film noir, which meant that we had to try and use conventions of the genre such as low key lighting which in particular, was difficult to achieve considering we shot the scenes during daylight hours, however we tried to use low key lighting of the colleges hallways to our advantage and out as much light as we could.
Our narrative for this film included a corrupted set of characters who start to betray their thieving colleagues with violence in acts of revenge which ultimately lead to a finale of one of the protagonists being chased and killed by the other. In reference to film noir films which were actually created within the genre's classic period, our film was also edited to be viewed in black and white in order to convey the idea that the events in the film took place within the past.
The silent film opens up with a close up shot of an 'exit' sign on a door which is then opened by, and introduces us to, one of the films main characters. This shot changes from a medium shot to a close up backwards tracking shot of the characters silhouette as he walks through a darkened hallway. The next scene is a 'flashback' to both of the main characters talking before carrying out a previous heist, of which ended in the death of an innocent citizen, something in which the second main character is not proud of and therefore he is shown in the rest of the film attempting and succeeding in murdering his colleague for the sin he has committed. When the first main character is eventually stabbed and killed in the film after being chased down by his former colleague, a red filter is added to the shot to represent blood and danger.
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