Neo Noir

We looked at the idea of Neo Noir and how they are used in certain films/programmes. Neo Noir is the idea that a film used aspects and key conventions that would be used in an original film noir film.

We looked at three examples which use this, Red Riding Trilogy, Mulholland Drive and Blade Runner.

Red Riding Trilogy 

 Conventional
-dark colours
-guns
-smoking
-following the idea of starting from the end
-crime
-main character is a journalist
-narrative
-rain

Unconventional

-child abduction

-living area is rural

-the year of 1970's

-unconventional music at the start

-sepia glow

-set in Yorkshire

-features family

Mulholland Drive

 Conventional
-swing music
-gun
-smoke/mist
-1940's setting
-red lipstick
-typical femme fatale
-men in suits with guns
-American

Unconventional

-bright colours
-happy feel to the sequence at the start

Blade Runner

Conventional
-fog
-silhouette
-smoking
-dark colours
-gun
-urban setting
-set up of opening scene
-shadows
-american setting
-raining
-crime

Unconventional
-set in the future
-futuristic machines
-flying cars
-sci-fi
-multi-racial
-doesn't follow starting with the end idea
-electric music