Film NoirFilm NoirArmin F.AArmin F.A

BY ARMIN F.ABY ARMIN F.A

Definition• Used to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas

• Means Black and White

• With sexual motivations

• emphasizes cynical attitudes

• Describes much fear, stress, blackness, despair

Origin • Started after WW2

• Started from 1940’s stretching to the late 1950’s.

• Movies such as:

• The Maltese Falcon (1941)

• Murder My Sweet (19944)

• Later cold war had more affection on Film Noir.

Characters • Film noir movies have fatalistic attitudes

• Voice overs are common

• The femme fatale - female archetype

• Sets have gloomy feel

• Story locations are urban

• Some film noirs are produced in semi-documentary style

RULES OF FILM NOIR

• Choose a Dame with a past and a hero with no future

• Use no fiction but pulp fiction

• See America through a strangers eyes

• Make it any color as long as it’s black

• It ain’t what you say, it’s the way that you say it

Lighting• Backlighting: Is directed at the camera from behind subject

• Semi-darkness

• Highlighted

• Back lighting

• hard lighting

• high angle lighting

• High contrast Lighting

• Low angle lighting

• Low key lighting

Camera Angles

• The position of the frame in relation to the subject it shows

• A high angle is when camera is looking down

• low angle when looking up

• Crane shot

• Deep focus

• Establishing shot: A shit that shows environment in which the action will take place

• Traveling shots: The camera movies while filming

Editing

• Using fade out in the endings

Narrative

• Using flashbacks

• Murdering

• Cheating

Iconography

Theme• Urban areas in cities like New York, Los Angles

• The city is presented as a maze

• Bars, nightclubs, gambling dens

• It is mostly night and raining in Film noir

Story

• Back story: Events that happened in the beginning of the story

• Flashback: Focusing on the person and cutting to his past

• Murders-----------------betrayal

• THE END

-http://www.filmnoirstudies.com/glossary/index.asp

-http://filmsnoir.net/film_noir/film-noir-and-the-classic-hollywood-narrative.html

-http://filmnoir2012.blogspot.com.tr/p/narrative-structure.html