The document discusses the opening title sequence for a film noir project. It summarizes how various elements of the sequence both conformed to and broke conventions of the genre. Costumes and props mostly followed conventions with suits, guns, and cigarettes, but English props like pocket watches were atypical. The location in an old house worked well to look dark, gloomy, and isolated. Casting only used male actors to highlight the masculine nature of film noir. The music choice of a loud rock song was alternative to the usual jazz and blues of the genre, making it more of a neo-noir. Font and title styling had both vintage and modern elements atypical of traditional film noir titles.

1. How did my opening title
sequence break or conform to
the conventions of film noir?
By Ruby Millard

2. COSTUMES AND PROPS
This part of the project was run by my partner Holli Clark

3. COSTUMES AND PROPS
Typical Conventions in our OTS
• Suits
• Guns
• Whisky
• Cigarettes
Untypical conventions in our OTS
• Pocket - watches are a typically
English prop and film noir films
are typically set in America.
• Flat Caps – Also a prop which
has an English theme to it.
Often worn by hunters.

4. Location
We knew that we wanted a dark
and gloomy look for our OTS. My
house has old fashioned wood
furniture which we thought
would look quite authentic when
in black and white. I removed all
personal and modern items from
the room ready for filming. As
it’s a terries house we have ally's
around the side and back of the
building. I thought that this
would work well for the
shooting as when in black and
white can look isolated and
suspicious; which is perfect for a
murder scene.
Before
After
I worked on this part of the project

5. Casting
My partner and I used friends with the
right look for the era that we were
aiming for. We felt that we should stick
with an all male cast when writing out
our story board. Film Noir as a genre is
very masculine and we wanted to
strongly highlight this. We worked
together on the selection of actors as
we thought it was important to make
the decision as partners rather than
independently planning and working. Ethan Rundle
Oliver Harman –
Howes

6. Audio
Music
For the music I wanted to record a song that
was on vinyl on a turn table. I wanted to do this
because of the crackling sound before the and
during the record. I thought that it would add
an aged feel to the footage. At first I looked at
Arctic Monkeys cover of the Nick Cave song
‘Red Right Hand’ because the original came up
in research. I liked the loud bold sound in parts
but I felt that it was to close to my research
material. I then chose to test watching the
footage with a song called ‘Dogmeat’ by the
band Drenge. Its loud and masculine so I
thought that it suited the feel of the OTS well.
We used this as an alternative to the Jazz and
blues which is usually in film noir. It makes our
OTS more of a neo noir.
I worked on the sound for our footage

7. Titles
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I was in charge of choosing and styling all of
the text for the OTS. For our ident I created
a mechanical sound to go with the cogs of
the animation which my partner created. It
reminded me slightly of the sound of a type
writer which is why I chose this style of
font.
I then chose a bold masculine font to use
for the actual titles of the OTS. I then
chose the placement of them within the
frames. This is more of a modern way of
putting titles and would not really be seen
in traditional film noir.