Film Noir influences

Film shot influences

When researching into noir films, me and Ryan found different aspects from films and the film trailers that we wanted to include in our trailer. But also we used to classic noir conventions also as influences. Also as we are creating a teaser trailer, we also found some factors of teaser trailers helpful to us as well

• Firstly looking at 'Shutter island' at the beginning of the trailer there was some main protagonist narration. Similarly there is also narration in 'Momento' 
• We the idea of this, as it comes across as the main person telling the story. 
• This birds eye view shot of the room from 'Shutter island', would be great for our interview room scene. It shows everything in the room and shows all the action going on. We could also use this shot to then have a crane shot to pan down to our actor on the table. 

• Still from 'Shutter island' there is a high angle shot, from outside in the rain and the main protagonist is walking in it. This shot is very noir, and in our trailer we have planned to have a shot of our main walking in the rain therefore we can use this to help us stage this shot.
  

  

• From the 'Drive' trailer, at the beginning there is a establishing shot, showing the setting of new york. Our film is also set in new york, therefore we could involve an establishing shot of new york within our film aswell. Also with this shot being shot at night, it's all dark and all you can see is outlines and glimpses of light which gives that noir feel.

• Public Enemies is another film trailer we looked at. Is again based in america but also the main protaginist is a great influence to what we want our main character to look like. This shot is faded into another shot. It's quite nori and would look good in our trailer. The first shot of the forest with the men is quite dark and mysterious we were also thinking about having a shot in our trailerr set in a forest so if we continue with this idea we could use this influence, but then this fades into another shot of the main character, in which its a high angle shot focusing on his face, which I really like and this would be great for our trailer, it shows his facial expressions well but at the same time its quite noir as it's dark and also the costume; suit, fedora and the trench coat, but also you can see the black gloves again emphasising this noir style which we can think about creating a shot like this for our trailer. 
• The soundtrack within this film trailer also is something to think about, as it included some contrapuntal music which I quite like the idea of as it makes the trailer more mysterious and noir style.