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
- 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
add more continuous prose Elliott - explain what neo-noir is, introduce the context in discussion form before you add lists.
ReplyDeleteThen you need to add a summative section - what has been learned