2) Eden Lake features a very sunny happy opening, which engages the audience, as it knows that the happy opening is too good to be true and that something will go wrong. It features many low angle shots in the middle of the film and a good use of close-ups showing facial expressions. Eden Lake also makes good use of lighting as the main chase sequence is in a forest location meaning it is quite dark and glooming which is very noticeable in contrast with the opening where the colour is quite bright.
Brick also uses the same devices with close-ups emphasising important aspects of the film and a good variety of long shots and low shots. A filter is also used to dull down the colours so the film doesn’t look too glossy and Hollywood like
3) A typical narrative is that a private detective hunts down a murderer after the crime has been committed and saves a damsel in distress (see image below, a shot taken from the film 'The big sleep' in 1946). The opening of a noir film usually contains a murder or a sequence of events that tell the audience a person has been murdered or missing. This creates enigma because the audience wants to find out who the murderer is or who is missing, by not giving the audience the full details of the plot in the opening scene the audience automatically feels the need to find out who has been murdered and is compelled to watch more.
4) Noir films very often feature a secretive main character who often has a job as a private detective or something in crime, they are almost always the heros and the villain is often portrayed as being an old fashioned crook that has set out to make money fast not caring about who he hurts on the way. Most noir genre films feature an attractive female character that plays a damsel in distress type role where the hero has to save her.
5) A lot of noir genre films are set in urban environments, and a lot of shots feature narrow alleys, small offices and city nightlife.
6) You would expect to see iconography like a lot of Dutch angle shots, low angle shots, wide angle shots, characters smoking, silhouetted characters and steam coming out from buildings and sewers.
7) Suitable costume would include trench coats, black hats and smart suits however more modern day noir costume can include anything, In Brick the main character wore a grey coat, t shirt and jeans and his friend wore a suede jacket and jeans, a lot of noir films also have characters wearing glasses.
8) Many film noir films use filters to dull down colour and obviously originally film noir was shot in black and white. Low key lighting is used frequently and emphasised by banister rods or Venetian blinds creates dramatic shadow patterns and connotes mystery and creates tension as the audiences view of the character is obscured. Red colours connote murder, Blue colours connote technology and black and white connote noir.
9) Gabo, Trash and NeoTrash from Dafont.com
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