Choice of "alcohol" - Water or Apple Juice

We had the option of choosing between two "alcohol" options  to give the impression that our protagonist is a alcoholic:

Water "Vodka"

• + Gives the impression  that it is a strong alcoholic drink
• + Not difficult to obtain its FREE
• - may just look like the protagonist is clearly drinking water
• - difficult to make it look like he's an alcoholic if vodka is taken in small shots 
• - difficult to obtain the right shot glass

* WE CHOSE THIS*











Apple Juice "Whiskey"

• + Looks realistic 
• + Easy to obtain and cheap
• + Can make him look like  real alcoholic to make it look like a large glass of whiskey
• - Colour of the apple juice may make it look fake

Props

Apple Juice

Apple Juice:
We need to create the illusion that our character was an alcoholic we needed to introduce some form of alcohol. the apple juice is supposed to look like whiskey. We just settled on a simple Tesco Value Apple Juice which costed about 65p.



 

Suit and Tie

Suit and Tie:

We needed the protagonist and his partner to look like real professionals as they were supposed to be dectectives at work. The suit and Tie make the character seem older and more serious which is what we wanted to portray them as we are fulfilling a common convention with film noirs as the protagonist often wears suits and looks serious.

 

 

Glass

Glass:

We needed a glass which looked similar to a posh whisky glass often found in the homes of seasoned drinkers.We wanted it to look like he is no stranger to alcohol. The transparency of the glass also worked in our favour as it gave us a great shot of the protagonist pouring the alchol in the glass

 

 


Alcohol bottle

Magner Irish Beer Original:

    We wanted to exhibit that or protagonist is a raging alcoholas we shot a sene of him drinking in broad daylight and further emphasised his problem with alcohol. We emptied the bottle and replaced it with lemonade so that we would be able to give the illusion that he was drinking alcohol.

Shot list

To prepare for our filming sessions we creaed a shot list for our film so that we knew exactly the shots we needed to make the film work. This meant that we had to take into account the genre of our film, what we wanted to get across to our audiences and what we needed to make it work the way we had envisioned the film. Below is the final version of the shotlist that we came up with.

We felt that this shot list would enable us to successfully convey emotion if acted upon correctly, as our film involves an individual who is going through a rather difficult time so getting his emotions across to the audience would be vital, especially seeing as how monologue is the primary way the story is told.