aural diagram

In this film noir intro there is, 

1, A Big title with dramatic music.

2, Panned shot with title.

3, Small title at the bottom showing the rights   reserved.

4, Music gets softer.

5, Title with a rose in the background.

6. Title with gun in the background.

7, Title with multiple roses in the background.
                                                                                    
8, Music and clip fade out together.
                                  

propp theory and the characters in our story

Genre and audiene defying intro elements.

A check list for our intro. This piece of planning was done to ensure that we were true to the genre of our film. This was created by Emma Scarpa as a text document.

Production company

A list of the most famous production companies are dreamworks,MGM, The weinstein company, Lions Gate, Paramount, 20th Century fox, Universal, Diseny, Warner Bros, Son pictures.

The production company who would suit best to our film would be Warner Bros as they quite often produce noir movies. They also are a very big company so they could provide money for distribution and marketing.



A list of neo-noir movies this company has released are.
Batman the arkham night
Late Harry potter films
Inherent vice

Audience category

I would put my audience member in the 24-35 age group. I find that the type of movie I am aiming to make is for older  more mature audience. I don't think i would place them exclusively into this age group but most likely not 15-24 year old or younger but 

The income class of my audience would most likely be ABC1 as the movie would show examples of of lives which they would be most likely to relate to or most likely be interested in. Where the other income brackets most likely would not be interested in the themes portrayed in my movie.

It would be aimed at mainly a male audience. Audience is very evenly split but i feel a movie like mine would attract a majority of men. 

perfect audience member

 I think that some people in the Blingers tribe would watch my video as it is film noir as it has classy clothing and good stories. People that are in a triple such a Blingers would look like this,

The food that the Blingers would eat is expensive and good quality. The sort of food would be lots of meat and fish etc, The music that they would listen to would be classical and classy. They would properly he happy with dance music if ever at a VIP club.

The food that Hippies would eat would be around the lines of vegetarian food and healthy food. Food that is good for you and the making of did not harm the environment. The music that they would listen to would be slow moving and peaceful. They would not like classical or dance / pop music.

I thing that the people in the Hippy tribe would be interested in watching my video with he genre 

being film noir as they are a fan of the good funky clothing as would interest them greatly. People in a Hippy tribe would look like this,

Audience research on favourite movie intros.

I have interviewed people around the school around the school about their favourite film intro and why it is their favorite. 

Skyfall: Straight into action doesn't bore you.

Pulp Fiction: Very violent and funny scene even though you do not know why it is happening which makes you want to find out more

Inception:  Very interesting opening you do not know what is happening yet it is still very gripping.

The good the bad and the ugly: Good music good use of shots

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300 Fighting scene, unnatural lighting, gore

9 key shots from Citizen kane

Kiss me deadly opening sequence

Mise en scene:
This opening is all focused on a women who runs down a street and seems to try to hitch hike a ride. But cars keep on driving past her. The road the runs along is very dark and straight. It seem to be somewhere where there are no buildings or street lights. This gives it a very isolated feeling.The car she hails is a old open top car driven by a man in coat  she is wearing a similar colour coat. The credits start rolling when they drive away and the credits are laid over the actual footage of them in the car. You then can only see very little.

Sound.
The first thing you heat is the woman panting while she runs down the road as well as her footsteps. Little later you can hear the engine of a car getting louder. Then the sound track starts playing. It is a orchestral track which gets louder and louder as does the car. This happens for every car driving past her until she stands in front of the car in the middle of the road when the music is very loud and the car screeches past he in a very loud fashion.She then runs up to the driver panting while he talks to her. She then gets in the car while the radio presenter talks and for the rest of the credits we only hear the song from the radio.

Cinematography
Most of the shots used we medium to wide shots focused either on the woman or on the cars. At the end we had a very long shot of the camera inside the car pointing outwards.

Edit.
All the edits used in this clip are straight edits. They always cut in relatively fast intervals to keep up tension and make the scene more action packed. At the end when everything has relaxed and they drive of there are no more cuts. Apart from the credits rolling.

Graphic breakdown of the hitch-hikers guide intro

What i need to incorporate in my film to make it look genuine.

To make our film look like a genuine opening of a feature film and a film noir film we will need a multiple of things.
We will need to introduce the characters, the story/plot and the setting of the film. The characters have to look like they could come from our time era and the area we chose to be set in. So we will need to research the typical clothing of the 50`s and decide where the film is supposed to be set in and find out details about that specific area.
For the plot and story line we need to make sure we can visually represent the theme of our film and make sure that it is clear but we also need to show credits which are always shown at the beginning of a film thy are also important in a theme way as they are often stylised in the same way as the rest of the movie which makes the movie look more organic.
The most iconic film noir trait is that they are black and white is important to include but the same iconic effect can still be achieved even when not completely shot in black and white. And as there is a great deal of realism in film nor movies this will need to included as well.

Film noir traits

Traits which are found across many movies of the film noire genre.

Film noir traits from ChrisSarafiant

Genre research

 Film noir  is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas, particularly such that emphasize cynical attitudes and sexual motivations. Hollywood's classical film noir period is generally regarded as extending from the early 1940s to the late 1950s. Film noir of this era is associated with a low-key black-and-white visual style that has roots in German Expressionist cinematography. Many of the prototypical stories and much of the attitude of classic noir derive from the hardboiled school of crime fiction that emerged in the United States during the Great Depression.

Film noir is also known for its use of low-angle, wide-angle, and skewed, or Dutch angle shots. Other devices of disorientation relatively common in film noir include shots of people reflected in one or more mirrors, shots through curved or frosted glass or other distorting objects , and special effects sequences of a sometimes bizarre nature. Night-for-night shooting, as opposed to the Hollywood norm of day-for-night, was often employed. From the mid-1940s forward, location shooting became increasingly frequent in noir.

In an analysis of the visual approach of Kiss Me Deadly, a late and self-consciously stylized example of classic noir, critic Alain Silver describes how cinematographic choices emphasize the story's themes and mood. In one scene, the characters, seen through a "confusion of angular shapes", thus appear "caught in a tangible vortex or enclosed in a trap." Silver makes a case for how "side light is used ... to reflect character ambivalence", while shots of characters in which they are lit from below "conform to a convention of visual expression which associates shadows cast upward of the face with the unnatural and ominous".

Short task on camera shots with jelly babies