Added Research for Planning

On order to know how to make a film noir thriller we Have to understand the generic conventions involved in them. Therefore I am going to analyse one to get a sense of what repartition is allowed, but not so much it is seen as cliché. The Maltese Falcon (1941) is one of the most popular and classic detective mysteries ever made, and many film historians consider it the first in the dark film noir genre in Hollywood.



Therefore I have chosen to review an extract from the film it may not be at the beginning because I couldn't find it on YouTube  However it still shows generic conventions and signs of film noir, which will help us understand how to make one more clearly.

Most camera angles are still as they do not move with one pan left in the whole scene as it is a low budget. There was mainly close ups to show the emotion between the characters and mid shots to introduce the characters into the scene. the shot reverse shots also helped convey their reactions to the audience. There are a few high to low angled shots to exaggerate the importance of each character and who is of higher status.

Sound before I watched this I thought film noir was silent and just had non diegetic score whereas this film film has a lot of diegetic dialogue and no non diegetic sound at all which I was surprised about. However, I think it will still be better that

Mise-en-scene has 1940''s costume of suites worn by the man and a kind of collared stripy dress worn by the woman this connotes the era as it was more common for men to wear suites as this is the stereotype combined with the woman wearing a dress as this is what it was like in the 1940's. the decor also shows the era with the props of the lamp curtains tables and fire-place. Moreover the black and white film conveys a low key lighting making it even more mysterious which is the effect we want to create.

Editing
the only editing in this extract is cuts, cut aways and eye line match through shot reverse shot.
Evaluation
I think that before I watched this I thought that a film noir had to be silent.
I have found that we want a film noir has more exaggerated non diegetic sounds as it will make the audience feel anticipation I think in order for the audience to understand the story we will need flash backs as the dialogue won't be there to help. I think we want to make a modern film noir because that way it won't seem cliche but contemporary. However, we will still repeat the setting of a house to convey it is still the same kind of genre. therefore the props and costume will be more modern but it will still be in black and white to make it more mysterious. Therefore, in the flashbacks we will edit them to make it black and white connoting to the audience that it is in the past and is a slightly blurred memory.

We thought about doing a silent movie so I analysed Last of the Mohicans to find the basic conventions of silent movie.


Camera Angles
every shot is still and doesn't move in any direction. I didn't realise before but the dialogue is actually written on the screen sometimes it can be a summary of either the shot previously or after it which helps the audience understand the series of events this could be classed as editing. a mixture of medium long shots, long shots and medium.

Sound
The non diegetic score over the credits is a drum beat with some kind of flute which connotes it is a mysterious thriller that isn't set in England but probably set in a foreign place. next are the foley horse shows galloping on the road. next non diegetic score is classical connoting the era of the 1920s as it was classical. this music is jolly and happy and stops when someone enters the door I think this would be the end of the beginning

Mise-En-Scene:
It is revealed that there are Indian characters in the film which reinforces the foreign mysteriousness of it. I know that they are India because of the text on the screen and because of the costumes, the english people are wearing smart long waist coats, trousers and boots for the men and women wore long old fashioned dresses which once again conveys the era. whereas the indians were all men and so were wearing no tops but a fur thing over his shoulder and shorts on the bottum with sandeled shoes.

Evaluation
I thought silent movies would just be over exaggerated miming with a lot on non diegetic score in the background with foley sounds to exaggerate the characters emotions even more, which there was but without the words on the screen as I thought that the miming in the mise en sene would explain everything to the spectators but it doesn't. this confused my group a bid, because we didn't know if we wanted a silent movie any more as this would make it quite boring for the audience now as the traditional silent movie has evolved into the films we have today to make them more interesting for us, this has also been reinforced our audience from the survey said that they would prefere colour and sound  rather than black and white and silent.therefore we will have sound but there won't be much dialogue there will proabably be some heavy breathing connoting that the character is panicing.