Origns of Film Noir.

Cinematography In a film Noir are often distorted and many have different camera angles suchs as a dutch tilt, they use different camera effects so it makes the femme fetale seem to have more control or the anti-hero to have no control. To add to the effect of mysterious things the camera angel is sometimes blocked by something or something is in the way.

Mise En- Scene

Film Noir is mostly set in an urban area, somewhere like San Francisco and normally it's all about the 'rough' parts of the city or day to day areas that people go past. It's like this because it makes it feel more real life and that it could happen to anyone. Film Noir's are based on wrong decisions and normally if you make a wrong decision like hiding a dead body that was your friend or a strange person in the street then you'll get what’s coming to you.  Film Noirs are normally based on murders or crime which is happening in the city. The normal setting for a Film Noir is rain, damp streets, and filthy urban landscapes. To get the right shot or scene in Film Noir they use a lot of high contrasts between dark black and whites, some times there are a few greys floating around but this helps a lot to set the mood and the film. Film Noir's lighting is mostly Low key lighting where three lights are normally used and only the places that need light get it such as the face. This is where the venetian blinds come in and help set the shot or scene.

Sound
 The sound used in Film Noir is normally Melancholy downbeat music such as Jazz either to calm the tension or to make the tension in the film a lot worse to make the audience tense up and think what’s going on. Sometimes heavy breathing and silence can help with setting the mood. Because the film is normally set in a city there would be a lot of urban sound effects within the film to make it feel a lot more real life then anything else.

Editing
Film Noirs normally start at the end so maybe the femme fetale is explaing the story or maybe even the anti-hero is telling it. Film Noirs were often shot in day instead of night because this was cheaper they made it look like night by using filters that barely costed anything then. Film Noirs often had a lot of jump cuts in them.

Narratives
Theres many narratives for a Film Noir such as  :-

• Crooks
• Amnesua
• Downard spiral (making a bad decison.)
• Murder
• Black Widow
• Psycholgical.

These are normally the main ones when watching a Film Noir creep up.

Characters
There are normally two main characters in a Film Noir, a male and a female. The female is a femme fetale,  she normally grabs the attention of our hero ( the male ) And can choose what she wants him to do and his ideas.
A list of male characters can be :-

• Detectives
• Gangster
• Millionaires  
• The 'fall guy'
• Hench/ thugs
• Beautiful women
• Police
• Corrupt politicians
• Crooked police.

Film Noir uses different types of angles when shooting, they normally use high angles and low angels which helps reflect the tone of Noir back then. Also Film Noir has a lot of extreme close ups to help the audience understand the characters emotion, they also use depth of field, reflections and faces which have been obscured though objects such as venetian blinds to make it look like the character can't been seen or something’s happening and want to add effect to this scene. Noir also has different camera angles such as the Dutch tilt, irregular framing of shots in that scene.