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Film Noir Conventions

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Film Noir Conventions

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Iconography

Characters are normally seen smoking

Females are known as ‘Femme Fetal’, wearing reveling clothing and stilettos, also wearing bight red lipstick.

The weather is always glum and is constantly raining.

The men are usually a flawed detective, wearing suits and caring guns.

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Style Low key lighting

Dark Contrasts

Dramatic Shadows

Faces Partly Obstructed by Darkness

Canted Angle/Frames

Shots of characters through mirrors shows frame of mind

Side Light

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Setting Film Noir’s are set in major cities for example new

york and it is constantly raining.

Urban places like LA are sometimes commonly used

Labyrinth/Maze themes

Often set in bars/lounges/nightclubs/gambling dens

Always set at night time

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Narrative

Unusual Storylines

Flashbacks/flash forwards

Obscure Narratives

Search for justice

Flawed characters

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Characters Drunk Policeman

Flawed Heroes/Corrupt Policeman

Alienated

Bitterness

Jealousy

Down and Out writers

Femme Fatal

Hard-Boiled Detectives

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Themes Crime

Murder

Greed

Jealousy

Criminals

Motivation

Investigations

False Suspicions

Betrays

Double Cross

Darker side of humans

Darker side of life