Research

Conventions of Film Noir- we looked on the internet to get ideas and familiarise ourselves with these typical conventions which we would have to be able to put into practice when making our own film.

Iconography:
police chases, cars, guns, weapons, high heels, lipstick, trilbies, smoking, alcohol, cigars, neon lighting.

Style:
 Shadows on faces eg. horizontal shadows of window blinds, shows dark and inhumane side of human nature, deep-focus camera work, expressionistic lighting, murky, grey, blacks and whites.

Setting:
urban setting eg. LA, San Francisco, New York  and Chicago, City presented as labyrinth or maze, industrial setting, bars, lounges, night-clubs, gambling dens, mainly set at night and in the rain.

Narrative:
frequently involve flashbacks, film noirs tend to usually convolute storylines, classic noir is generally associated with first person narrative, voiceover is used as a structuring device, storyline.

Characters:
hardboiled detectives, femme fatales, corrupt policeman, jealous husband, private eyes, commentators.

Themes:
Greed and jealousy is frequently the criminal motivation, a crime investigation by a private eye, false suspicions and accusations of crime, revolve around heroes, urban setting and a few cities.

Tables gender, age

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Film noir sales

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This is to help us understand how popular our chosen genre is. 

History Of Film Noir on Prezi
We made a prezi to ensure we understand everything about previous film noirs, this also inspired us to make our film.

Film noir -numbers and statiticsThis was used to give us some insight into the sales of different genres and compare them to film noir.

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This is how I will try to do my hair and make-up to make me look like im really from the 1940s.

I am analysing the first 3 minutes of this clip- i will look at camera shots, mise en scene, editing and sound to help me get to know the typical expectations of a Film Noir. Here is my analysis:

Kiss Me Deadly Opening Analysis

Analysis of Film Noir Title Sequence on Prezi Blood Simple.

9 shot analysisI chose to analyse The Big Combo, this also helped me understand the conventions.

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