Scribd Logo
Upload

Welcome to Scribd!

  • 19 views

    Film Genre

    Uploaded by

    Peeky007
    Film noir conventions include smoking to portray cool characters, using weather like rain for emotional scenes, and black and white filming to represent danger. Lighting in film noir uses mostly shadows and soft focus on faces to create mystery. The Hays Code meant films couldn't show violence, so film noir implied it through facial expressions. There were two main camera angles: high angles showed vulnerability and low angles represented power, like when Phyllis walks down stairs looking down on Walter Neff.

    Copyright:

    Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)
    Download as PPTX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Film Genre

    Uploaded by

    Peeky007
    19 views6 pages
    Film noir conventions include smoking to portray cool characters, using weather like rain for emotional scenes, and black and white filming to represent danger. Lighting in film noir uses mostly shadows and soft focus on faces to create mystery. The Hays Code meant films couldn't show violence, so film noir implied it through facial expressions. There were two main camera angles: high angles showed vulnerability and low angles represented power, like when Phyllis walks down stairs looking down on Walter Neff.

    Original Description:

    jihiu

    Copyright

    © Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)

    Available Formats

    PPTX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Did you find this document useful?

    Is this content inappropriate?

    Film noir conventions include smoking to portray cool characters, using weather like rain for emotional scenes, and black and white filming to represent danger. Lighting in film noir uses mostly shadows and soft focus on faces to create mystery. The Hays Code meant films couldn't show violence, so film noir implied it through facial expressions. There were two main camera angles: high angles showed vulnerability and low angles represented power, like when Phyllis walks down stairs looking down on Walter Neff.

    Copyright:

    Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)
    Download as PPTX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as pptx, pdf, or txt
    19 views6 pages

    Film Genre

    Uploaded by

    Peeky007
    Film noir conventions include smoking to portray cool characters, using weather like rain for emotional scenes, and black and white filming to represent danger. Lighting in film noir uses mostly shadows and soft focus on faces to create mystery. The Hays Code meant films couldn't show violence, so film noir implied it through facial expressions. There were two main camera angles: high angles showed vulnerability and low angles represented power, like when Phyllis walks down stairs looking down on Walter Neff.

    Copyright:

    Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)
    Download as PPTX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as pptx, pdf, or txt
    of 6

    FILM NOIR

    Holly Backman

    Conventions
    There are many conventions in film noir, including smoking, this shows the Characters are cool as smoking was popular during the time film noir was filmed. They used the weather in film noir. For example, if it was raining you could tell that something sad and emotional was happening. Film Noir films were the crime genre therefore film noir films where filmed in black and white to represent danger. Therefore They carried on using it until technology could dim down colours. They used a Non Diagetic sound in Film Noir. They would speed up the music if there was a chase to make the viewers more intrigued about what was happening.

    Lighting
    The lighting in film noir Is very different to most films, the film is in black and white. Through out the film a lot of the lighting is mostly shadows for example in one scene in double identity the lighting is only focused on her body and not her face, this is to show that Phyllis is provocative and creates a sense of mystery. The focusing on Phyllis face is always softened, this is to make her appear more beautiful. They also use the lighting very cleverly by using blinds to create shadows on the walls, this creates a sense of danger as if the character Is in bars or a spider web.

    Hays Code
    The Hays code meant that films couldnt show violence, instead film noir cleverly made it seem like there was violence so the audience knew what was happening without actually seeing it for example in Double Indentity when a Walter Neff is killing Phyllis's Husband and we only see Phylliss facial expression which is a slight smile as we already know she wanted her husband dead. The reason they did this because there wasnt actually age restrictions on films when these types of films were made, so any age could see it.

    Camera Angles Camera Angles


    There were mainly two camera angles used in film noir. The high angle, which usually showed vulnerability and showed that the character was powerless and the low angle, which showed power and that the character that had a low angle on them was in charge. An example of this in Double Indemnity when Phyllis walks down the stairs and Waltner Neff is looking up at her, this shows that she has the power in the relationship which we find out in the end of film.

    Why is film noir a significant film genre?


    Film Noir is a significant sub genre, as it is a genre within another genre, film noir is crime and black and white.

    You might also like