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Film Noir – What are the conventions of this genre?
Film Noir – What are the conventions of this genre? Useful Terms Mise en scene • Lighting • Costume • Low key lighting • Back lighting Cinematography • Tilt shot • High angle/ low angle • CU/ LS
Film Noir Features and Conventions
Film Noir • “Black Cinema” – Thematically dark – Aesthetically dark
• Highly stylised genre – Distinctive look – Low key lighting – Disorientating camerawork – Angular shapes – Narrator/ voice over – Urban, contemporary city – Detectives; femme fatale – Bleak
• Origins: – 1940s America • Tension • Paranoia • Exodus from Europe
– Resurgence: • 1970s: Taxi Driver; Chinatown • 1990s: Se7en; Reservoir Dogs; LA Confidential • 2000s: Memento; The Black Dahlia
Student Media Productions
Student Media Productions
Plan an idea • Plan a concept/ idea for a two minute opening of a film noir – – – – – – –
What happens? Characters? Locations? Costume? Props? Sound? Style/ camerawork/ lighting?
What to expect
Year 12 Units Coursework • Film Production – Create the opening to a thriller film
Exam • TV Drama – Studying conventions and representational issues (age/ gender/ ethnicity/ class…) • Studying the Film Industry e.g. How is the Film Industry changing in the 21st Century?
Year 13 Units Coursework Exam • Music Promotion • Skills and Concepts Package – Create a – Relate your music video, digipak coursework to Media and magazine advert concepts (e.g. genre/ for an unsigned band audience) • Media and Collective Identity – e.g. How does the Media shape people’s sense of identity?
Media Studies myths • “It’s just watching films” • “There’s not much writing” • “People who work in the media didn’t do Media Studies” • “It’s easy”
What can you expect?
• Get a large memory stick (use for all subjects) – Ms Barton, Ms Witting, Mr Seal, Mr Rootham • Get a Media ringbinder Lots of practical work folder Difficult theoretical • Study anything we put in concepts front of you Loads of essays • Do the work Range of media (Film/ TV/ • Try new things
• 2 teachers • • • •
What do we expect?
Advertising/ Music/ Print) • Blogs/ Photography/ Video
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Summer Task
Summer Task Poster (annotating images from the clips) Video (You talking Powerpoint to the camera, or (6-8 slides) you talking over the clips. The video will go on to Prezi via your YouTube www.prezi.com channel in (6-8 sections) September) 1. 1.
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Poster (annotating images from the clips) Powerpoint (6-8 slides) Prezi via www.prezi.com (6-8 sections)
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Video (You talking to the camera, or you talking over the clips. The video will go on to your YouTube channel in September)
Short essay A combination of these approaches
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Any other way you would like to present your ideas
Any other way you would like to present your ideas
Summer Task View these three clips from films. •Casino Royale opening scene http://youtu.be/HNvzNWuzI9Y •LA Confidential title sequence http://youtu.be/ZOl2h3MQWVU •LA Noire title sequence http://youtu.be/aoprih2IXQE or the first 3 minutes of this http://youtu.be/HQyWNFBK94Q
Pick two clips to focus on, and create something to answer this key question. •What are the similarities/ differences between two of the clips?
Summer Task • Pick 2-3 of these to focus upon: – Genre – Camerawork/ cinematography – Mise en scene (colour, lighting, set, props, costume) – Narrative – how it tells the story/ establishes our expectation – Representation (of gender, of criminality) – Themes Poster (annotating images from the clips) Video (You talking Powerpoint to the camera, or (6-8 slides) you talking over the clips. The video will go on to your Prezi via YouTube channel www.prezi.com in September) (6-8 sections)
Short essay A combination of these approaches Any other way you would like to present your ideas