1. Film Noir….
Film Noir is described as stylish classic Hollywood crime dramas. Film Noir period The term
is generally regarded as extending from the early 1940s to the late 1950s, in this film
era film noir is associated with a low-key black-and-white visual style with many noir, French
film noir conventions: for "black
Iconography film”
Characters • Black and white
• Includes a femme fatal, trouble • dark alleyways
maker • Alcohol
• Includes Good and bad cops • Cigarettes
• Weakness in the main actor • Trench coat
• Alienated protagonist • Weapons Sound
• Trilby hat • Heavy breathing
• One light or lamppost • Deep voice over
• Office
• Suits
• Rain
Visual conventions
• Smoky effects, smoking Themes
• Low lighting key • Transgression of social
• Shots reflected into the norms
mirror • Femme fatal causing the
• Night filming troubles
• 1940s costuming • Crimes
• Racy femme fatal • Corrupt police force
• Extreme close ups

2. Existing Noir films, magazine covers and posters

3. The big sleep
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