Props and Costumes

 
After the final screenplay had been completed we made a props and costume list for ourselves. The ideas for character's and set had been finalised which meant we could go into a lot more detail on how we wanted the sets to appear and how each individual character should look and come across to an audience at certain times within the film. The kitchen scene - For this scene we needed to make sure there was no modern props around. This scene was between Martha and Clark before Clark leaves for breakfast.  A simple plain white teapot cup and plate made this scene complete. After watching pervious Film Noir we noticed that a lot of them had posh looking glasses to hold their whiskey. We found one of these for our film and used them in Clark's office and Nancy's house to show their status, as the poor wouldn't have one.

We definitely need newspaper’s in the office scene so we created our own documents and took our own picture's and edited them to make them appear old. This was a vital part of the film. The microflex camera was just for effect and wasn't actually used during filming but we thought it was a nice touch and fit in well with the time period. Finally the circular dial telephone was a very important prop within our film and appeared in Clark's office when he is on the phone and also in Nancy's house. Clothing was just as important as props in our film and we took a lot of time researching and planning the suitable clothing for each character. On the left are Martha's clothes and on the right are Nancy's clothes. We wanted Nancy's character to automatically be seemed as the femme fatale of our film so we dressed her in glamorous, sparkly dresses and big fur coats, and in contrast Martha was the middle class housewife, so we dressed her in more casual clothing.

 As you can see from the picture’s neither of the women have red or white seductive clothing suggesting they are the femme fatale. We purposely did this. Instead we picked a neutral colour like blue. Both women had two blue dresses that they wore in the day time, one black dress for their formal event and a coat with fur. We did this so the audience wouldn't distinguish a femme fatale from the very start of the film. This we hoped to cause the audience to dig deep into each character making their own opinion rather than having it handed to them; because it turns out that both women are femme fatales in our film.