Film Noir- Research

For our media production we have been set the task to film a 'Film Noir' production. The style of the genre is usually a hollywood crime drama and we decided to follow this convention and use it for our production as it makes our production stand out clearly as something in this genre.

Through reviewing and comparing over film Noir's we decided to base our production around 'Gun Crazy', this production is a 1950 film noir feature film starring Peggy Cummins and John Dall. This production is a story about the crime spree of a gun toting husband.

We wanted to follow along the lines of having a gang, who is being hunted down by a detective. These would typically follow conventional plot lines of a film noir production. Our production doesn't have a husband and wife but does have a gang leader and femme fatale that mildly link to these roles. however the main thing we took from this production is the gang culture.

From watching this clip,It emphasised the fact that hwe would need a femme fatale for our production. We decided to dress our film noir like that in this production, our femme fatale crystal is wearing a glamorous dress that makes her look elegant and dominant. Also from looking at this we found that all male characters must be wearing suits. So this made us want to use a gang as in conventional american gangland most of the males wear suits that are similiar to the suits seen in film noir.

From looking at some pictures we found the location we would want to use in our production.

 

From looking at a range of film noir's we think a bar scene is best. We had our main character 'Tony' walk up to a booth where the femme fatale and gang member are sitting to discuss his missing drugs. We think this is conventional for the genre and provides a conventional storyline with a slight twist in it as seen in our production.