Film Noir Research

http://www.filmsite.org/filmnoir.html

This website gives very detailed information about film noir films, giving examples, key conventions and going into detail about the femme fatale characters in the genre.

"Film noir films (mostly shot in gloomy greys, blacks and whites) thematically showed the dark and inhumane side of human nature with cynicism and doomed love, and they emphasized the brutal, unhealthy, seamy, shadowy, dark and sadistic sides of the human experience."

From filmsite.org

FIlm Noir Typical Narratives

This shows the usual typical narrative of a film noir.

Film Noir - Cindy (Cinderella)

Film Noir Plots

This is the typical storyline of a film noir film:

Film Noir - Cindy (first draft)

Film Noir Cinderella Storyboard

Film Noir Highlighted Essay

Examples Of 'Film Noir' Films

Most Popular Film-Noir Feature Films
List OF Film Noir Films

          

What Is Film Noir?

Film Noir is a genre of film that is stereotypically about gangs, detectives and murder. The classic film noir period was the 1940s and 1950s. The roots of the genre came with black and white cinematography. Though the more recent films mostly keep with the themes of a film noir, they are usually in colour.

Film noir definition

Some film noir films from Google

Die Hard With A Vengeance

'Die Hard With A Vengeance' is a 1995 action film starring Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson. It is the third film in the Die Hard series, following a NYPD Lieutenant fighting against criminals. In this film, John McClane (Bruce Willis) has to work with Zeus Carver (Samuel L. Jackson) to play a dark game of 'Simon Says' with the Simon Gruber (Jeremy Irons), the brother of the villain who was killed in the first film (Alan Rickman). I love Bruce Willis and I love Samuel L. Jackson and I love action films, which is why I love this film so much. I loved watching the characters work out all the riddles especially the riddle about the water. The 'Die Hard' films are my favourite films to watch when I'm bored because they are so packed full of adventure; it's just that this one is my personal favourite. 

School of Rock

'School of Rock' is a 2003 film starring Jack Black and Joan Cusack. The film follows Dewey Finn (Jack Black), a musician/guitarist who gets kicked out of his band, as he pretends to be his roommate, Ned, who is a substitute teacher, and fills in at a posh prep school.  Although showing no attempt at teaching the students, after overhearing their music class, he put them together as a band and crew to perform at Battle Of The Bands to win money to pay his rent and get back at his old band. This is one of my favourite films because I could watch it repeatedly and still love it. It's a feel good comedy about school kids making a rock band and it's as funny as it could get and it shows just how important music can be to people.

The Holiday

'The Holiday' is a 2006 film starring Jack Black, Cameron Diaz, Jude Law and Kate Winslet. The film revolves around two women, one from Los Angeles (Cameron Diaz), and one from London (Kate Winslet), who swap homes for the Christmas holiday due to guy trouble. However, while at each other's homes, they find love (Jude Law and Jack Black). I love this film because the end of the film always leaves me smiling. I love Christmas films and I love Jack Black (as well as the others too) and I especially love that the characters have more than just one story happening as it makes the film more interesting. It's a feel good film with a great cast.

My Top 10 Favourite Films

1. The Holiday
2. School Of Rock
3. Die Hard With A Vengeance
4. Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
5. Les Misérables 
6. The Croods
7. Beauty and the Beast
8. Frozen
9. Hairspray
10. Mamma Mia

Our Sweded Film - Frozen

Sweding Frozen - Behind The Scenes

Young Anna and Young Elsa

Royal Family

Kristoff and Sven

Making Olaf

Nose testing

Building Olaf

Troll

Doing Hans' sideburns

Sweding Frozen - Planning

Frozen storyboard

Making snowflakes

Ice castle

Sweded Films

Sweded films are short videos that summarise a film, using a simple camera and no budget to recreate the film. The films tend to be comedic despite the original genre as the low (no) budget requires creative thinking to compensate the actual film's props and costumes. Sweded films are inspired by the film 'Be Kind Rewind' starring Jack Black; this film itself has be 'sweded'.

        

      

http://swededcinema.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Kind_Rewind

http://swedefest.com/

About Me

This is me. I am Megan. I didn't do media as a GCSE because I chose French instead at the last minute (I thought it was the right choice at the time). Media was one of my definite choices for A-Levels and although it's new as a subject for me, I watch a fair amount of TV shows and films and I spend most of my time online so my computer skills are pretty good. Music and fashion are two of my favourite things so I try to incorporate them into a lot of my work. I have friends who have done media and they loved it so I'm really excited to start it.