The Big Sleep OFFICIAL trailer

This is a classic Film Noir trailer and the film itself has a brilliant feel to it it also encompasses all of the film noir aspects that are well known such as the use of shadows and cigarette smoke to create a certain lighting effect. We are going to try to use as many of these aspects as possible in order to make our film feel like a Film Noir and not just a modern day production in black and white.

Titles in Trailer

These are the titles we chose to use for our Trailer we assessed other trailers and realized that bold text was typical of the action genre however it was also typical of the Film Noir genre as i knew from my research of the Big Sleep and Tron therefore our Titles retain Film noir aspects as well as Action

The Basics of Lighting for Film Noir

 This video explains the lighting which we can use to create that classic film noir feeling for people whilst they are watching our trailer, this was a very useful tool to improve my understanding of the Film Noir genre and how lighting should be used to affect a shot. Techniques of Lighting: Low Key Lighting, Three point lighting (Fill Light,Key light and Back Light), Hard Lights(creates harsher sharper shadow), Soft lights(create a fuzzier edge because the light is scattered juxtaposition to Hard lighting)

Music

 We used Garageband to create the music for our production it is original and was composed especially for our production in order to incorporate an action element but also retain some film noir aspects. It includes a bass guitar, snare drum and synthesizer.

Poster Text

I chose this text for my poster because it is bold and stands out and that follows the conventions of a Action and Film Noir Title. 

This is a model film noir poster and it has used bold text in order to stand out and grab peoples attention   and it is stereotypical of posters in that time it is also behind an explosion suggesting of action and that entices people as they want to be excited.  

 

This is a model action poster and it has used a bold text because it is supposed to grab people's attention  and suggests that everything is is bold and macho, looking at the context of the poster I can see that it is a very stand out poster with many past mega stars culminating in an inferno of macho men, fire and explosions 

Preliminary Task

  

This is our preliminary task and it is a remake of the internship trailer we had a lot of fun making this project and we learnt many lessons which we learnt from and will benefit our final production.

Ideal Female Actor

Lauren Bacall  She would be amazing as a  classic femme fatale character in our film although we have a modern twist i am sure that she would be able to add her mystery to our female character and use her girlish ways and her sexuality to manipulate weak perverted men. She herself would add the option of James falling in love throughout the film and could potentially add another sense of mystery of wether james has fallen for this black widow or not. Also she has experience in the Film Noir genre with films such as The Big Sleep under her belt.                                                                                                                             Angelina Jolie

   

She would be amazing as a femme fatale character in our film even though she has not featured in any Film Noir she has played a          classic femme fatale character in the film The Tourist as she preys upon 

Johnny Depps character in order to protect her own husband although she 

uses her sexuality for gain which represents aspects of a classic femme fatale character although she has also featured in the lara croft franchise as a feisty female character who scours the earth for precious artifacts and therefore we would be able to use her in action scenes and we could portray as a much stronger female character as she has already played the part of a man eater in many films before.

                                                      Emma Stone

 Emma Stone would be a very good femme fatale character in our film even though she has not featured in any Film Noir productions apart from American Gangster where she plays a classic femme fatale character and as her her character she contains all of the features attributed to a femme fatale although the colour allows for the use of red which is symbolic of a femme fatale.