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Film Noir

Film Noir. BY ARMIN F.A. 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

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Film Noir

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  1. Film Noir BY ARMIN F.A • Armin F.A

  2. Definition • Used to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas • Means Black and White • With sexual motivations • emphasizes cynical attitudes • Describes much fear, stress, blackness, despair

  3. 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.

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. Editing • Using fade out in the endings

  9. Narrative • Using flashbacks • Murdering • Cheating

  10. Iconography

  11. 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

  12. Story • Back story: Events that happened in the beginning of the story • Flashback: Focusing on the person and cutting to his past • Murders-----------------betrayal

  13. 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

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