In our lessons we started watching a film and a tv series that are in the style of film noir; Mulholland drive (film) and The Red Riding Trilogy (t.v series).

The two typically main female roles in a film noir is the Femme Fatal - the dangerous woman who knows what she wants, and exactly how she's going to get it, and The Girl Next Door - typically your more kind caring girl who helps out when she can.

The essentail message of a film noir would be - Don't trust the femme fatal, go for the girl next door! This message can be said for nearly of film noir films.

In 'The Red Riding Trilogy' the things that made it typically film noir were the following; Smoking - hazey smoke filled room, the voice over from the anti hero, the end of the series was shown at the start, distopian - Dark/depressing and lots of framing/over the shoulder shots.

Film noir will almost always be set in big cities, Chicago or New York for example and will most likely always be dark or raining, or perhaps even both!

We didn't get to watch much of Mulholland Drive - the introduction consisted of a couple dancing but were repeated over the screen multiple times and also it also introduced The Girl Next Door.

Here is a link to a website that i found giving information into the different elements in Film noir

http://www.hollywoodmoviememories.com/articles/film-noir-articles/elements-of-film-noir.php

Some photos from film noir

I found this link to the Film Noir Foundation http://www.filmnoirfoundation.org/home.html

Jackson you are missing lots all of which need adding
as a start

1. film noire conventions and generic pleasure
2. representation of males/females in film noir with example images
3. evidence of analysis of the two OTS we did in class - Casino Royal & Double Indemnity - compare representation / form / style / character / mise-en-scene/ location / lighting / narrative etc and think about how the genre has changed/stayed the same
4. your plan for your own production / decisions
5. storyboard
6. the post on narrative/lighting conventions - using the sheets we discussed in class
7. bbfc classification codes linked to audience with examples for each category and which you are going to use

I am back next week - see you monday to plan catch up time  BUT in the meantime get a wiggle on - you have 4 hours per two weeks in lessons and 3-5 hours homework per week - you have simply not done enough

HY

This is some evidence of our Film noir work whilst we are editing it, changing the positioning, timings and audio.

In my lessons i have been creating a short film noir piece with my fellow student, Jemma Rayner. Together we started by researching the film type of film noir and the different style of them, for example how they are filmed black and white and are set around the time of the 1940's.

The group that I was working in consisted of myself and Jemma, we found this to be a good combination for Jemma (unlike me) is extremely organised and plans well in advance and I am confident to be on camera whilst she is good at filming and I have experience in editing films.

The brief for our piece was to create a short film noir scene, in the scene we had to have two people engaging in a short conversation after entering and then have them leaving after. We also had to make sure we used the 180 degree rule whilst filming.

Mise-en-scene. When we went to go film our task unfortunately we didn't have the time to arrange a filming at a more suitable location so we filmed it in a classroom in our school. For our costumes we just used the clothes that we were wearing at the time and i also happened to be wearing a Sombrero which came to the creation of my character in our film. Props - The only prop that we used in our film was a small brown envelope.

Storyboard - I will upload a photo of our storyboard that we have created as it is currently unavailable to me.