Our intentions for our sequence was for it to be Film Noir, it is just under a minute long. We decided for the scene to be the reveal scene where the male character discovers the woman is the femme fatale.
The opening shot is an establishing long shot of the Church and then the camera pans right to reveal the two main characters standing in front of a grave. We used the graveyard so we could try and give the Film Noir feel with the setting being outdoors and the two main characters being alone. I also added the non-diegetic sound of rain and thunder over the top of the video to tell you that it is set in a graveyard and that it is raining heavily even though you cannot see it because it was not raining when we filmed it.
We zoomed in to the characters by tracking the camera forwards because we were too far away to be able to make a noticeable difference when zooming in. We then did an eye-line match shot of a high angle looking down at the grave and then a low-angle mid-shot looking up at "Sandra" and "Jonathan". We then cut to a long-shot from a side angle and panned the camera left, cutting to a mid-shot two-shot of Sandra and Jonathan, leaving space between them in the centre to show the distance between them both in the scene and in their relationship and how the feel between the two of them is quite tense. We did three quick cuts going from an over the shoulder shot from behind Sandra, to Jonathan, to Sandra again. We did this to try and give a sense of panic and paranoia from Sandra who is desperate and doesn't want to lose Jonathan.
The camera pans right to follow Jonathan's movement as he storms off, the the sequence cuts to a close-up shot of Sandra's hand as she pulls out a gun. We used the gun for mise-en-scene to show that it was going to be a murder scene and that it was not going to be a happy ending which is a typical film Noir convention. The camera tracks forwards as Sandra runs after Jonathan, and a non-diegetic gun shot noise is played as she shoots him from a distance. We cut to a high-angle over the shoulder shot from behind Sandra to show that she is the femme fatale and that she is now looking down on Jonathan and is dangerous and more powerful than him, playing another non-diegetic gun-shot sound as she shoots Jonathan for the last time. We then cut it to a long stationary shot from the side to show Sandra as she throws the gun onto the dead corpse of Jonathan and walks away without looking back, we did this to also confirm that she is the femme fatale and that her character must be evil and sly to just kill her husband and leave him there without once looking back. I think the non-diegetic gun shot noises were successful as I managed to get them to play at the right moment that Jonathan was shot, also I think that the non-diegetic rain sound worked well because it wasn't too loud but it was loud enough for you to be able to tell that it should be raining.
