The first of the 8 shots is the production company for the film which is 20th Century Fox. This company usually opens most film intro’s with their well known Ident and theme music.

This next clip was faded into from the 20th century fox ident. This shows the main actors names in Titles made to look like 1940’s bulb sign. The background is of a city at night, most likely of Hollywood which is where the film is based.

This title is a lot larger than the last because it is the name of the film. It fades in from the last clip which then caries on to fade in for the rest of the title scenes. (“I woke up screaming” the films name)

 

The background remains the same throughout the opening title. Again this title shows the names of lesser actors names throughout the film. I know they are lesser actors because there’s more names compiled on this title and also the size of their names is smaller than the last title of names.

 

 

 

These titles are smaller and more cramped together this is done because the people in this title are less important. such as costume design, Editor and musical director. At the bottom of the title are also affiliated companies.

This final title shows the producer of the film, who is given a section of his own which shows his importance to the film.

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 classical film noir period is generally regarded as extending from the early 1940s to the late 1950s.

Film noir of this era is with a low-key black-and-white visual style that has roots in German Expressionist cinematography. Many of the prototypical stories and much of the attitude of classic noir derive from the hardboiled school of crime fiction that emerged in the United States during the Great Depression.

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10 classic traits Film Noire

1. A French term meaning “black film,” or film of the night, inspired by the Series Noir, a line of cheap paperbacks that translated hard-boiled American crime authors and found a popular audience in France.
2. A movie which at no time misleads you into thinking there is going to be a happy ending.
3. Locations that reek of the night, of shadows, of alleys, of the back doors of fancy places, of apartment buildings with a high turnover rate, of taxi drivers and bartenders who have seen it all.
4. Cigarettes. Everybody in film noir is always smoking.
5. Women who would just as soon kill you as love you, and vice versa.
6. For women: low necklines, floppy hats, mascara, lipstick, dressing rooms, boudoirs, calling the doorman by his first name, high heels, red dresses, elbowlength gloves, mixing drinks, having gangsters as boyfriends, having soft spots for alcoholic private eyes, wanting a lot of someone else’s women, sprawling dead on the floor with every limb meticulously arranged and every hair in place.
7. For men: fedoras, suits and ties, shabby residential hotels with a neon sign blinking through the window, buying yourself a drink out of the office bottle, cars with running boards, all-night diners, protecting kids who shouldn’t be playing with the big guys, being on first-name terms with homicide cops, knowing a lot of people whose descriptions end in “ies,” such as bookies, newsies, junkies, alkys, jockeys and cabbies.
8. Movies either shot in black and white, or feeling like they were.
9. Relationships in which love is only the final flop card in the poker game of death.
10. The most American film genre, because no society could have created a world so filled with doom, fate, fear and betrayal, unless it were essentially naive and optimistic.

For my Mood board I chose Film Noire. All photo’s are in black and white for the same reason that Film Noire are black and white to give off the dark suspicious affect through out. I chose two example pictures of successful films and the rest are both mis-en-scene relevant to the style of movie. I have also placed a few pictures of Famous actors who stared in film-noire movies.