Film Noir Codes And Conventions

Film noir codes & conventions

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Narrative

Plot- Is the narrative as it is read, seen or heard from the first to the last word or image. That is, like a signifier, it is what the read perceives.

Storyline- Is the narrative told in chronological order, the abstract order of events as they follow each other. That is, like a signified, story what the reader concieves or understands.

(Tools for cultural studies, Macmillian, 1994)

More specifically, narrative is a way of orgainising spatial and temporal date into a cause and effect chain of events with a beginning, middle and end that embodies a judgement about the nature of the events as well as demonstrates how it is possible to know, and hence to narrate, the events.



(Narrative comprehension and film, Routledge, 1992)

 

 

Here me and my group have created a simple storyboard out of the pictures given to us in class.

The idea of the task was to show the rest of the class  our storyboard and let them interperet there version of the story from how we had arranged the images.

Ideology

Ideology is a very important key concept because it underpins the construction of any media text. A media text will always have an ideology which is communicated. explicitly or implicitly to an audience.

The Jargon
A dominant ideology is one which is accepted and understood by the majority of people as part our culture and expectations.

Our Film

Our Film is a Film Noir Detective/Crime film. We decided to go with the title 'Marilyn', we chose this because it was typical of Film Noir films to be named after the character of which the story is about. Typically it would be the female.

The storyline to our film is: Marilyn phones the police because her husband has been murdered. We don't get to see who the murderer is. But throughout the film, there are clues as to who the killer is. The Detective doesn't show signs as to who the killer is, but knows that Marilyns husband was rich. The detective herself is an independant person and thinks that she doesn't need anyone, but inside she's got problems herself. After a second murder, the detective  suspects more. When he figures out its Marilyn, he goes for the arrest. She doesn't realise the danger ahead of him, his partner, who is barely introduced in the film, follows the detective to save her from her getting murdered by Marilyn.

Top 10 Film Noir

1. Sweet Smell Of Success
2. The Big Heart
3. Pickup On South Street
4. Out Of The Past
5. The Killers
6. The Big Sheep
7. Detour
8. Laura
9. Double Indemnity
10. The Maltese Falcon

Film Noir

Film noir is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those that emphasize cynical attitudes and sexual motivations. Film noir is associated with a low-key black-and-white visual style. 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 Depression.

The term film noir, French for "black film". first applied to Hollywood films by French critic Nino Frank in 1946, was unknown to most American film industry professionals of the classic era.

Because Film Noir is mostly crime drama's, the main characters in the films would be as such.the central figure may be a private eye (The Big Sleep), a plainclothes policeman (The Big Heat), an aging boxer (The Set-Up), a hapless grifter (Night and the City), a law-abiding citizen lured into a life of crime (Gun Crazy), or simply a victim of circumstance (D.O.A.).

New film

Our new film is going to be a film noire detective film. We have started to think about the story line, and the obvious one would be to do a murder. A film noire/detective trailer would easier to do than our last idea and it wouldnt be any problem to do.