Thursday, 23 September 2010

Research Into Film Noir

For my Creative Project i am going to make a short film (5 minutes). I have chosen the Genre of Film Noir because of its visual stylistics and the use of cinematography.

Film Noir came onto the screen in the 1940's to the late 1950's. They were low key, under budgeted films without major stars. The films were very dark and expressed themes of depression, anxiety, entrapment, futility and pessimism. The storylines were often elliptical and non linear.

Relationships In Film Noir

Usually in Film Noir theres two main characters. The leading male and the Femme Fatale. The leading male appears as a strong, wealthy man who encounters on a beautiful female that excites him but never actually truly loves him. She uses her beauty and sexual motives to weaken him and munipulate him into conspiring a murder. Leaving him to take the blame of the conspired murder.


Femme Fatales in Film Noir

In Film Noir a Femme Fatale was a major character and was presented on screen as a beautiful but double crossing woman. The Femme Fatale would be munipulative who would capture the lust of a man and delve him into commiting a murder.

My First Blog

Today i have created my own personal blog. I will be recording my research and planning that will lead up to my Creative Project.

Wednesday, 22 September 2010

Brief

My brief is to create a short film 3-5 minutes long. With the choice of a genre i must stick to the genre conventions and stylistics.