Locations, Cotumes, Props and Actors

Actors:
Jack Harris will be playing the hardboiled cynical detective. As well as being available and reliable, he has Media experience which we think will help us when we are filming the detective scenes.

We have casted Alex Johnstone as the murdered. As we are only him from the waist down, we won't see his face. As he's in our Media class he is reliable and eager to make an appearance in our film

Kate will be our captured femme fatale. She fits the conventional femme fatale look i.e. has curls and the body figure.

Locations:
After doing our reccy we have decided to film certain scenes (the murderer walking and washing his hands & the femme fatale tied up) in an old bathroom in our school.
We think that this location is suitable because:

• We will have access to old fashioned taps
• This toilet is no longer used, therefore we will not be interrupted whilst filming
• The room also has terracotta tiles which will produce echoing footsteps when the murderer is walking, creating a eerie atmosphere.

The rest of the scenes will be filmed at Kate's house and Yulia's stairwell. It's possible to do lots of interesting shots in the stairwell for example a low angle of the detective's hand gliding on the banister.

Costumes:

So that it's easy to identify the detective, he will be wearing a trench coat, trilby hat and braces as this is the typical style of clothing an investigator wore in the 1940's era. The costume of the femme fatale is quite simple ; a short revealing dress and high heels. We are going for the more obvious look so that the target audience recognizes her straightaway and will question why the dangerously seductive woman has been kidnapped. The murderer will be wearing trousers and shirt, his outfit is plain because we wanted him to look ordinary so that the audience is shocked when they see him washing blood of his hands.

Props:

For the scenes with the detective the props we will need are:

• Old fashioned telephone
• Notepad
• Pen
• Roll up

Red food colouring will the used when the anonmous stranger is washing his hands. To show that the femme fatale has been kidnapped we will use a rope to tie up her hands and a white band to put around her mouth.