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Noir’s Visual & Aural
                Style
Classical Hollywood
            Cinema
Classical Hollywood
                    Style
3 Balanced composition
3 Well-lighted
3 Three-point lighting
3 Linear narratives
3 Conventional editing
Three-Point Lighting
3 KEY light = main source of
  illumination (if used alone it will
  leave shadows)
3 FILL light = a secondary light
  source, less intense than the key
  light (helps remove shadows)
3 BACKLIGHT = placed above and
  behind the subject (used alone will
  produce a silhouette of the
  subject)
Lighting Ratios
3 Traditional lighting ratio (low-
  contrast ratio) is:
   3 Key - 2
   3 Fill - 1

3 Noir Lighting Ratio (high-contrast
  ratio) is:
   3 Key - 4
   3 Fill - 1
Key light
Visual style
Three-Point Lighting
3 Key + Fill + Backlight
3 Separates the subject from its
  environment creating a sense
  of depth
Three-Point Lighting
Evolution of the Noir
                Style
The Experimental
Period: 1940-1943
Studio Expressionism:
           1944-1947
The Location Period:
         1947-1952
Fragmentation and
Decay: 1952-1958
Mise-en-scene
Noir Mise-en-scene
3 Anti-traditional (Place &
  Peterson)
3 Unbalanced compositions
  (framing, camera angles,
  close-ups)
3 Low-key lighting
3 Deep-focus photography
Film Noir: Visual Style
Noir Lighting Style
Noir Lighting
3 Night-for-Night photography
Noir Lighting
3 Low-key lighting
Noir Lighting
3 Chiaroscuro lighting
Chiaroscuro Lighting
Chiaroscuro Lighting
Chiaroscuro Lighting
Chiroscuro Lighting
Noir Lighting
3 Unconventional lighting
  techniques:
  3“Jimmy Valentine” lighting
  3“Rembrandt” lighting
The Dark Corner
         (1946)
Noir Camera Angles
Noir Camera Angles
3 The position of the frame in
  relation to the subject it
  shows.
  3High-angle
  3Low-angle
  3Dutch angle
High Angle Shot
Low Angle Shot
Dutch Angle
Deep-focus
Cinematography
Deep-focus
          Cinematography
3 A use of the camera lens and
  lighting that keeps both the
  close and distant objects being
  photographed in sharp focus
3 Why is this important for film
  noir?
Deep-Focus
Cinematography
Film Noir: Aural Style
Diegetic &
     Non-Diegetic Sound
3 Diegesis - the world of the film
3 Diegetic sound comes from
  within the frame story.
3 Non-diegetic sound comes
  from outside of the frame
  story.
Voice-Over Narration
Music in Noir Films
Noir Composers
3 Miklos Rosza
  3Double Indemnity
  3The Killers
3 Bernard Herrmann
  3Taxi Driver
  3On Dangerous Ground
  3The Wrong Man
Visual style

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