Film Noir Influences

Our film trailer is very dark and mysterious, the lighting is very dreary and dull throughout many of the shots. These are typical conventions of Film Noir. We have purposely darkened some of our shots to give them a film noir feel, for example we have a shot in which the killer is shown as a reflection of a silhouette. This silhouette is very typical of a film noir film as this convention is used in many of these films.

The photo above is a screenshot from a scene in The Big Combo, this is a perfect example of the silhouette shot. This shot has been very influential in many films including ours. This is because the silhouettes look mysterious and they are two very clear figures. This allows the viewer to clearly see some of the features of each figure, but are unable to see some more important details, such as the face. This leaves us wondering why these two people are in silhouettes and what reasoning is behind this. This is how we would like to portray our killer in our trailer, but instead of so mysterious we were looking to portray him as more scary and creepy in order to emphasise the genre of our film.