Analysis of film noir

To help us improve upon our first draft, I will analyse film noir to find the techniques used to create the genre and how it turned into the modern thriller.

As you can see from this mood board of images from film noir including posters, lighting was a key feature to establish who characters are and their intentions. Film noir would often only use gender as a tool of sexuality because the female would be portrayed in a sexual manner on the posters. This is something we will not use in our film. However because of the technology at the time, films were shot in black and white meaning lighting and shadows helped massively when trying to create a scene. This is something we wish to utilise because we will have black and white scenes in our film.