Saturday, January 14, 2012

Similar Products - Conventions of Film Noir

• Interesting camera angles – e.g. Dutch, extreme low and high angle shots, no handheld shots.
• Black and white
• Minimal lighting – (something often placed in front of the light source)
• Anti-hero
• Narrator (Non-diegetic sound)
• Often filmed at night
• Tone (urgent)
• Glamorous female character – (femme fatal)
• Urban location
• Silhouettes
• Costume – appropriate to time of genre e.g. female characters in dresses, male characters in suits and hats
• Music – Suspense building

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