Research - 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. Hollywood’s classic film noir period is generally regarded as stretching from the early 1940s to the late 1950s. Film noir of this era is associated with a low-key black-and-white visual style

The term noir (French for "black film") first applied to Hollywood movies by French critic Nino Frank in 1946

Film noirs can encompass a range of plots, these are: -

• The central figure may be a private eye (The Big Sleep)
• A plain clothes policeman (The Big Heat)
• An ageing 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 circumstances (D.O.A.)

From the 1960s onward, many pictures have come out that share attributes with film noirs of the classic period, often treating noir conventions in a self reflexive manner. Such latter-day works in a noir mode are often referred to as neo-noirs.

Reference – ‘Wikipedia’ and a video from ‘Youtube’

I will be using the element of film noir at the beginning of my film where I use a long lasting shot of the subject from a point of view shot. It will be in black and white, describing his life. The only other time film noir will come up in my film is at the end where I go back to black and white and he describes his death.