“A movie that is marked by a mood of pessimism, fatalism, menace, and cynical characters; film noir was applied by French critics to describe American thriller or detective films in the 1940s"
The conventions of film noir:
Visual Style
- Low key lighting
- Dutch Angles
- Low angle shots
- Wide angle lenses
- Night for Night filming
- Shots of character reflection in one or more mirrors
Iconography
- Dark Sidewalks
- Rain drenched streets
- Flashing neon signs
- Alcohol
- Trench coats
- Cigarettes
- Guns
Settings
- Urban setting (for example Los Angeles and New York)
- Bars
- Nightclubs
- Gambling den’s
- Industrial setting (for example refineries and factories)
Narrative Devices
- Convoluted storylines
- Flashbacks
- Voiceover narration
This does have very good conventions of horror, however for our 'zombie' opening sequence we want to portray an isolated and infected theme, as seen in 'I am Legend'. Film Noir does not have this as a film convention so I don't it will be appropriate to our film opening.
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