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I have created the story line of my noir film in comic style which i think is more easier to understand.

So here it is...

This is the first scene in the noir movie.
It portraits the society is full of sorrow and urban issue.
People live under the stress everyday.

This scene shows the depression atmosphere in the city.
The man with a glasses is a scientist who always wanted to cure the city but lack of capability.
So he got no choice but to play a part in the community as well.

The scientist passed by an accident which almost happen eveyday on the street.
So no one will really surprise about it.

But actually the accident scene is where the protagonist of the movie comes out.
He lost his kin in a car crash.

This scene shows the scientist lives in a huge house alone and somehow it illuminates that he don't really wanna go home, because he's afraid of loneliness.
Next scene is he see through the window and look at the situation outside. Emotional feelings are taking part.

He sitting on a sofa with a bottle of wine on the table beside him.
Shows that he always drink alone and frustrating about the world he's living in.
He wanted to change the world with all he can gives in.
Therefore, an idea was created.


He called his old science partner to discuss the ideation of changing the world.
A drug that can make people sink into in the swirl of happiness.
Then they decided to work it out together.


They worked day and night in the lab for the drug formula.
Finally they named the drug as "Jagoskin" which is the happy solution drug.


But then, his partner,Mr X tried to altered the drug formula without the scientist knowing.
The altered drug are able to eliminate all the emotion and feeling of a human being except happiness.


Those people who ate the drug becomes Mr X's follower and assist him in some underground activities.
The next scene will be the scientist realized that he's been conned by his old partner and felt guilty as he destroy his own dream which is to protect the humanity welfare.
However, under Mr X persuasion and cajole, he changed his point of view to the extreme ways and decided to work with Mr X.


This scene shows the greed and dark side of Mr X.


The government started carry out investigation on them as their product has been causing riot to the society.
They are in the wanted list as well.
They ran away along with their work and disappear.


Time passes...
Pangkor Island has become one of the most enjoyable and happiness tourist spot in the world.



Here comes the protagonist,Ylvis who is a nitpick detective.
He likes to investigate some random cases which no one will even bother it.
That's why he found out the insidious background of Pangkor Island.


Ylvis was doing a lot of research about Pangkor Island.
Because he have some strange feelings towards the happy living island.


Then we called his friends which are his old mates to join the investigation.
The second picture shows the road to Pangkor Island. Mr X's head is behind it shows that he's actually doing something bad on the island.


 
The villagers on the island were all smiling happily while greeting them.
This stimulate the curiosity of Ylvis to further his investigation on the island.


Ylvis's mates turn into smiling zombie one after another.
He got no choice but to carry on by himself.
He was surrounded by the villagers and some chasing scene will take place.


This scene shows Ylvis tried to destroyed the whole conspiracy and survive till the end.

In the end,Ylvis manage to create the antidote to cure those victims and report to the police about this.

Mr X and the scientist was defeated but somehow the mastermind is always the person we won't even realised it.

iDeAtIoN cRiT

Now let me explain the ideation of our noir film through a juxtaposition sketch done by myself.

Our noir film title is called "La Belle Morte"

Means Beautiful death in French.

Sounds irony isn't it?

This story is mainly about how a cult or an idea spread among us and the impact on our life.

Sometimes we have to went through the nightmare before the sweet dreams.

Sometimes hallucination is what we consume everyday without even noticed.

Some of them want to use you, but some of them wanna get used by you - Marilyn Manson's sweet dreams.

So are you going to live painfully?

or choose a beautiful death?

Synopsis flow chart

            In the film, the detective has to make decision regarding the mysterious drug case.

Let's have a creative thinking session here shall we.

Do you prefer to live in a morbid life or choosing a painless and happy death?

 Every people have some variation opinion for the answer.

But in my point of view about the way of life.

Life is like a stage, everyone is taking a role play in it.

Sometimes god like to play a trick with us and push us to the deepest pit.

We might crushed our skull and broke our limbs.

And even drink our own blood to barely survive.

But I believes that

"The darker hour is just before the dawn"

No matter how hard your life is,try to think of someone else.

Are you the most suffered one?

If not then grab ur arms and legs or even climb up the wall of pit by your teeth.

keep crawling and keep crawling.

I swear one day you will witness the most beautiful moment in your life.

Your effort and sacrifice ain't gonna be in vain.

A more detailed synopsis will be posted soon.

This is just a rough explanation of my ideation.

While writing this post,I'm also trying to smoothen the flow of the story.

As well as to maximize my cult.

nOiR

This topic has totally pumped my adrenaline nerves to the max baby.
We're going to film a noir video clip based on our own cult,yet we're acting as the producer,director,actress/actor, or even light-man and camera man in the whole film.
How great is that???!!!

However, to produce a fine noir film is definitely ain't a easy task,damn!!
We got a lot of referencing and homework to do before the actual shooting,brainstorming as well.
Our beloved lecturer Mr Charles told us to do a ideation crit to make it more organised in our production and progress.

Based on my understanding about Noir:
NOIR = BLACK

Yup~
Black is deep.
Black is meaningful.
Black is reality.
Black is emotional.
Black is calmness.
Black is bad ass.
Black is ME~

For me, Noir film is one of the hardest and classic type of film which had ever made in our century.
One single scene is able to portrait more than one type of meaning and emotion by playing with the light and composition.
Sounds simple yet deep instead~

Based on my research, I have found out some of the basic techniques of filming a noir movie.

• Three Point Lighting

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Well, this is pretty much the basic lighting position of a noir film.

The most important light is the key light and the background light.

The fill light is not the dominant light in the case, it helps to saturate the contrast of the light on the model's face.Hence it becomes something interesting in manipulating the shadows too.

• Cucoloris Effect (cookies)

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Cut out of wood or plastic and act as an obstacles to block the light in a sense to create the Cookies effect.
This technique is highly used in classic Noir film especially in detective genre and horror genre.

http://desirnoir.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Film_Noir_by_kidspy.jpg

http://media02.hongkiat.com/film-noir-digital-artworks/film-noir-detective.jpg

http://screensense.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/noirbars.jpg

• Smoke effect

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Smoke effect is essential in the classic noir film.

Because smoke can create a highly prolific sense of mysterious and blurred contrast which enhance the black & white film greatly.

Although I does not encourage smoking but in my opinion, smoking is acting as a important factor in the noir film.

Is correct we can use dry ice to replace the cigarette, but due to our production cost, dry ice is not the first choice.