The ideas that we had come up with are as follows:
- Basic scene with some action
- Detective case
- Villian
- A unfaithful assisstant
- Dramatic scene to create a different effect and different emotions
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Main Task - Diary Entry 1
We have just been given ther project of completing a Film Noir production, once we had joined my group with Luke Ayres and Ryan Denney then it was time to decide some basic ideas on what our production plot was going to be.
The ideas that we had come up with are as follows:
The ideas that we had come up with are as follows:
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Similar Products - Film Noir Posters
All of these posters show the main characters in the film, and some of these posters show
some of the well known actors in film noir. Also on the film noir posters all of the information
which is most important for the viewers to notice and in this case it is the Titles of the films,
and the next important piece is the actors and this is what attracts some viewers to watch
the film.
Similar Products - 3 Film Noir Opening Scenes
Sunset Boulevard
This Film uses many of the main conventions of film noir and this is shown in opening sequence, for example the credits at the start instead of end are main feature of this genre. Also the tradition USA setting is shown as Hollywood is the setting. The films opening starts off by using a tradition film noir detective and police theme this is shown when a big crime is taken place, this is immediately shown. Another is that there is just one shot at the beginning showing the titles of the film, this would look good in my production because it is traditional feature.
Double Identity
From the opening of this film shows us a detective figure straight away and this is a main convention of the genre. This opening doesn't give much narrative to the audience just makes us think whats happening, where we see a very conventionally lit film noir opening with the main features. The lighting would be considered to use in my own projects e.g. street lights.
Touch of Evil
This Film noir opening is very conventional like the other using long trench coats, old cars and dark lighting. This opening is also different how it uses one long shot and grips us as we are shown with a bomb and an explosion between the both you are hooked and want to know when it goes off and why he does it. The feature I like most is the shadows used to portray how evil the villain is.
This Film uses many of the main conventions of film noir and this is shown in opening sequence, for example the credits at the start instead of end are main feature of this genre. Also the tradition USA setting is shown as Hollywood is the setting. The films opening starts off by using a tradition film noir detective and police theme this is shown when a big crime is taken place, this is immediately shown. Another is that there is just one shot at the beginning showing the titles of the film, this would look good in my production because it is traditional feature.
Double Identity
From the opening of this film shows us a detective figure straight away and this is a main convention of the genre. This opening doesn't give much narrative to the audience just makes us think whats happening, where we see a very conventionally lit film noir opening with the main features. The lighting would be considered to use in my own projects e.g. street lights.
Touch of Evil
This Film noir opening is very conventional like the other using long trench coats, old cars and dark lighting. This opening is also different how it uses one long shot and grips us as we are shown with a bomb and an explosion between the both you are hooked and want to know when it goes off and why he does it. The feature I like most is the shadows used to portray how evil the villain is.
Similar Products - 5 Film Noir Plots
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
The story, set in '50s Hollywood, focuses on Norma Desmond, a silent-screen goddess whose pathetic belief in her own indestructibility has turned her into a demented recluse. The crumbling Sunset Boulevard mansion where she lives with only her butler, Max who was once her director and husband has become her self-contained world. Norma dreams of a comeback to pictures and she begins a relationship with Joe Gillis, a small-time writer who becomes her lover, that will soon end with murder and total madness.
Double Indemnity (1944)
In 1938, Walter Neff, an experienced salesman of the Pacific All Risk Insurance Co., meets the seductive wife of one of his clients, Phyllis Dietrichson, and they have an affair. Phyllis proposes to kill her husband to receive the proceeds of an accident insurance policy and Walter devises a scheme to receive twice the amount based on a double indemnity clause. When Mr. Dietrichson is found dead on a train-track, the police accept the determination of accidental death. However, the insurance analyst and Walter's best friend Barton Keyes does not buy the story and suspects that Phyllis has murdered her husband with the help of another man.
The Third Man (1949)
An out of work pulp fiction novelist, Holly Martins, arrives in a post war Vienna divided into sectors by the victorious allies, and where a shortage of supplies has lead to a flourishing black market. He arrives at the invitation of an ex-school friend, Harry Lime, who has offered him a job, only to discover that Lime has recently died in a peculiar traffic accident. From talking to Lime's friends and associates Martins soon notices that some of the stories are inconsistent, and determines to discover what really happened to Harry Lime.
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Spade and Archer is the name of a San Francisco detective agency. That's for Sam Spade and Miles Archer. The two men are partners, but Sam doesn't like Miles much. A knockout, who goes by the name of Miss Wanderly, walks into their office; and by that night everything's changed. Miles is dead. And so is a man named Floyd Thursby. It seems Miss Wanderly is surrounded by dangerous men. There's Joel Cairo, who uses gardenia-scented calling cards. There's Kasper Gutman, with his enormous girth and feigned civility. Her only hope of protection comes from Sam, who is suspected by the police of one or the other murder. More murders are yet to come, and it will all be because of these dangerous men -- and their lust for a statuette of a bird: the Maltese Falcon.
Les Diaboliques (1955)
The wife and mistress of a sadistic boarding school headmaster plot to kill him. They drown him in the bathtub and dump the body in the school's filthy swimming pool... but when the pool is drained, the body has disappeared - and subsequent reported sightings of the headmaster slowly drive his 'killers' (and the audience) up the wall with almost unbearable suspense...
Information from: http://www.imdb.com/chart/filmnoir
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Similar Products - Conventions of Film Noir
The most obvious convention of Film Noir is that the picture has to be in a Black and White format. Other conventions can be put into different sections such as the following: Costume, Lighting, Characters/Actors, Location and Camera Angles/Shots.
Costumes is important because help to define Film Noir such as Male actors wear a hat and a coat and most of them smoke as shown in this picture.
On the other hand the Female actor needs to be attractive and that they are wearing glamourous clothing because this is a common convention of Film Noirs that they are attractive and stand out from everyone else, as shown in the other picture below.
The Lighting is an important Film Noir convention because it is known that there needs to be as little amount of light as possible to gain the maximum effect of the film, but you need the lighting in some parts of the scene to show the most important aspects of this scene.
The Location of the Film Noir needs to be in a city location as some of the main genres of Film Noir are Crime, Corruption and this isn’t a normal representation for this to happen in the countryside, whereas the city is a big built up place where crime and corruption is going to happen in a typical Film Noir production.
Finally the Camera work is one of the most important factors of Film Noir because it can help project what is going on in the best possible way, this is portrayed using such angles as Low angle, High angle, Dutch Tilt and wide angle shots, also there are ways in which camera skills and lighting work together because if in the right position this can cause silhouettes to appear and this is also a convention in Film Noir.
Costumes is important because help to define Film Noir such as Male actors wear a hat and a coat and most of them smoke as shown in this picture.
The Lighting is an important Film Noir convention because it is known that there needs to be as little amount of light as possible to gain the maximum effect of the film, but you need the lighting in some parts of the scene to show the most important aspects of this scene.
The Location of the Film Noir needs to be in a city location as some of the main genres of Film Noir are Crime, Corruption and this isn’t a normal representation for this to happen in the countryside, whereas the city is a big built up place where crime and corruption is going to happen in a typical Film Noir production.
Finally the Camera work is one of the most important factors of Film Noir because it can help project what is going on in the best possible way, this is portrayed using such angles as Low angle, High angle, Dutch Tilt and wide angle shots, also there are ways in which camera skills and lighting work together because if in the right position this can cause silhouettes to appear and this is also a convention in Film Noir.
Similar Products - What is Film Noir
Film Noir is French for the words Black Cinema, Film Noir was first founded during the post war years becuase of a select amount of hollywood films which included an amount of darkness and cynicism that had never been seen before. Most of the Film Noirs are based around the sub genres of Sex, Crime and Corruption.
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