Saturday, 30 November 2013

Neo Noir

The Red Riding Trilogy


Conventional Noir elements 

  • Dark lighting
  • The opening scene is a flash forward to the ending 
  • Crime related  
  • Cigarette smoking and the smoke is used to create effect in conjunction with the lighting
  • Iconography-pistol, cigarettes
  • Voice-over from the perspective of the anti-hero
  • Male detectives
  • Music that builds up suspense
  • Anti-hero main character 

Unconventional Noir elements 

  • Sepia tone
  • Set in England 
  • Camera angles - intense close ups, panning
  • The crime which features in the film is child abduction
  • Set in a rural location
  • The film is set in the 1970s 
  • Acoustic guitar music
Mulholland Drive 

Conventional Noir elements

  • Dark colours
  • Urban setting
  • Hand guns
  • Femme Fatale, red lipstick, well dressed
  • Men in suits with pistols
  • Smoke or mist in the darkness
  • Tense music

Unconventional Noir elements 

  • Jolly swing music
  • Brightly coloured superimposed title sequence
  • Modern time setting and location
  • Modern vehicles
  • Two Femme Fatales as opposed to just one
  • No male anti-hero
  • High budget special effects
  • Set in Los Angeles

Blade Runner


Conventional Noir elements


  • Dimly lit setting
  • Cigarette smoke 
  • Set in an urban location
  • Police/crime detectives
  • Hand guns
  • Flawed anti-hero
  • Chiaroscuro lighting
  • Femme Fatale
  • Rain

Unconventional Noir elements

  • Set in the future
  • Science Fiction elements
  • Electronic music
  • Brightly lit areas, billboards, and lights
  • Multi racial


1 comment:

  1. add more continuous prose Elliott - explain what neo-noir is, introduce the context in discussion form before you add lists.

    Then you need to add a summative section - what has been learned

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