Analysing OTS: Sin City, Double Indemnity & This is England

Sin City

Double Indemnity

As a class we have analysed these two OTS. The conventions are both met and partially challenged with both.
I have personally also analysed This is England's OTS:

Research: Textual Analysis (Double Indemnity)

Double Indemnity - Where I found my facts: Imdb and Wiki

• Fred Macmurray played Walter Neff
  
• Filmed in black and white
  
• Within the Film Noir, Crime, Drama and Thriller genres 
• It's budget (estimated) was: $927,262
• Was nominated for seven Academy Awards but did not win any

This is the trailer:

I also read some reviews on the film at this site: click here

Understanding audience:

Neo-Noir

After researching Neo-Noir's typical conventions by watching several different Neo-Noir extracts I found what are to be considered conventional elements and unconventional. This is what I found:

Genre

Genre is the means by which any media texts are categorised in order to clarify audiences understanding and meaning.

Types -

• Horror
• Romance
• Crime
• Sci-Fi
• War
• Action
• Documentary
• Fantasy 
• Adventure 
• Western
• Period/Historical 
• Musical

Borrowed interest - 

Why genre? - Can advertise to the right target market.

-Viewers that go see that genre probably like it.

Why hybrid genre? - Can borrow interest to get more viewers, fans of both genres.

- Introduces other genre lovers to new genres.

Hybrid Genre - 

Comedy + Romance - 10 things I hate about you

Western + Sci Fi - Star Wars

Historical Musical - Les Miserable

Horror + Thriller - Final Destination

War + Historical - Saving Private Ryan

Key Conventions of genres - 

Action -  Explosions, Hero, Heroine, Villain, Fighting, Love Interest etc. 

Romance - A problem, boy and girl, the big 'kiss', happy ending etc.

Film Noir Images & Lighting

Film Noir Images from sophiemace

• As a group me, Cal, Emily and Max worked well together. We chose our favourite images we wanted to create and got straight to work. Emily and Cal didn't mine and enjoyed being on camera so as a group decision they were featured in the photos whilst me and Max took the photo's and played around with the lighting.
• Overall, from this I have learnt more about Film Noir lighting/images and I think this will be handy when it comes to filming my Opening Title Sequence. 

Conventions of Film Noir