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.