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Heat
project:
Heat
the brief:
The client required a training video with a difference. The script came to us already written and approved, and so it was up to us to make it come alive. The video was a film noire pastiche and needed to look like ‘The Maltese Falcon’.
pre-production:
We sourced actors and costumes, a make up artist, and commissioned a composer to write some background music in keeping with the style. We studied the Maltese Falcon to emulate the sets and lighting.
We scoured Birmingham looking for 1940s buildings – interior and exteriors. Most had been refurbished (ruined) inside, but eventually we found the right corridor in the basement of one building, the right lift in another, and the right office setting in a disused building. We travelled to Manchester to source the office furniture and other props.
the shoot:
The script required a nighttime shot in the rain. We decided that we would aim for ‘black and white movie rain’ (not realistic), and the fire brigade obliged by creating the rain with their hoses.
The programme commences with a spinning newspaper. The client made the newspapers and then we filmed then on a cake turntable for that authentic 1940s look!
During the shoot, we were intending to film a scene with a Godfather type character in a Council building and were let down at the last minute. The heat really was on! – actors and crew waiting and the clock was ticking. We decided to shoot the scene at the Botanical Gardens, changing an office setting for a conservatory setting and the scene worked so well, we wondered why we hadn’t thought of it in the first place!
the edit:
Once edited together, we gave the programme the black and white film effect that you see here.
project:
Heat
the brief:
The client required a training video with a difference. The script came to us already written and approved, and so it was up to us to make it come alive. The video was a film noire pastiche and needed to look like ‘The Maltese Falcon’.
pre-production:
We sourced actors and costumes, a make up artist, and commissioned a composer to write some background music in keeping with the style. We studied the Maltese Falcon to emulate the sets and lighting.
We scoured Birmingham looking for 1940s buildings – interior and exteriors. Most had been refurbished (ruined) inside, but eventually we found the right corridor in the basement of one building, the right lift in another, and the right office setting in a disused building. We travelled to Manchester to source the office furniture and other props.
the shoot:
The script required a nighttime shot in the rain. We decided that we would aim for ‘black and white movie rain’ (not realistic), and the fire brigade obliged by creating the rain with their hoses.
The programme commences with a spinning newspaper. The client made the newspapers and then we filmed then on a cake turntable for that authentic 1940s look!
During the shoot, we were intending to film a scene with a Godfather type character in a Council building and were let down at the last minute. The heat really was on! – actors and crew waiting and the clock was ticking. We decided to shoot the scene at the Botanical Gardens, changing an office setting for a conservatory setting and the scene worked so well, we wondered why we hadn’t thought of it in the first place!
the edit:
Once edited together, we gave the programme the black and white film effect that you see here.