1. Assignment #9
getting into
groups
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2. GENRE Genre?
Genre of : Film Noir
Subgenre of : Suspense.
REASONS
 Original  Previous opening sequence that we have
seen.
 Interesting  Different from what is usually seen these
days
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 Good stories  To Learn more about the genre.
 Personal interests  The use of femme fatale.
 The themes used.  The suspense used.

3. CONVENTIONS
conventions Use/develop/challenge Purpose/Description Examples of films
Voice over USE He tells how he got In sunset boulevard, the
 Telling the story killed, and does it by narrator is the character
Usually a man doing a flashback and telling his own story.
Strong voice saying, ‘well lets go
 Normally predicted to six months before
Effective
Person telling their
own story.
DEVELOP
Having a foreign
accent
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4. CONVENTIONS Luara&Kauana
conventions Use/develop/challenge Purpose/ Examples of films
Description
villain USE Sunset
Femme fatale Men Boulevard
Dominant Woman Desmond is
Protagonist  Attractive the villain
Seductive  Murderer and looks
Stands out dominant
DEVELOP and Sunset Boulevard Mrs
Don’t stand out Dominated attractive Desmond, the villain.
Not attractive
CHALLENGE
Antagonist Looks vulnerable
Looks normal

5. conventions
conventions use/develop/challenge Purpose/ Examples of films
description
victim USE In sunset
Male Desperate boulevard,
Good looking Young Norma
Falls for the femme fatale Desmond,
kills Joe
Murdered
Gillis after
DEVELOP he leaves
Not attractive Woman her. In sunset boulevard, Norma
Mature Strong Desmond, kills Joe Gillis
Went against the after he leaves her.
dominant woman.
CHALLENGE
Murderer Villain
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6. conventions
conventions use/develop/challenge Examples of films
crimes USE Sin city
Men murdered
Tragically Obsession
Usually with guns
Paranoia from villain
Femme fatal Love
Women murdered
tales usually involved.
Suspicious
DEVELOP
The murderer looked normal
death scenes
If in the crimes the man was more
dominating.
CHALLENGE
Very young person
 involved
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7. conventions
conventions use/develop/challenge Purpose/ Examples of films
description
Femme fatale Use In sunset
Dominant Attractive boulevard
Leads men into danger she smoked
Interesting and looked
Flirtatious very
Mysterious Elegant demanding
Gorgeous Unloving
Manipulative The scene
Serious Smoking. specifically
Develop shows her The scene specifically shows
Mature Romantic being her being dominant.
Less attractive dominant.
Vulnerable
Challenge Luara&Kauana
Homme Fatale.

8. conventions
conventions Use/develop/challenge Purpose/ Examples of films
Description
Detective. Use The
•Long coat detective in
•Men double
•Mysterious indemnity
•Intelligent looking like
•Mature a typical
•Good looking detective
•Neat
Develop
•Dopy
•Young
•Bad looking
Challenge
•Messy
•women
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9. How are we using the conventions
in out opening sequence?
conventions Use/develop/Develop purpose/decription
Femme Fatale Use In our movie we are
• Dominant using the convention
• Attractive of femme fatale:
• Leads men into danger • because our main
• Flirtatious character is a femme
• Mysterious fatale, and she seduces
• Elegant men , and kills them
• Manipulative after.
• Serious • the makeup is also of a
• Smoking femme fatale, which is a
eyeliner on the eye on
the top , and red lips.

10. How are we using the conventions
in out opening sequence?
conventions Use/develop/challenge Purpose/Description
detective Use In our opening sequence
•Long coat we are using the
•Men convention of Detective.
•Mysterious Because in the story the
•Intelligent detective will be interrogating
•Mature the femme fatale, he will be a
•Good looking very typical detective wearing
•Neat a long coat , with a neat hair
to the side.

11. How are we using the conventions
in out opening sequence?
conventions Use/develop/challenge Purpose/description
crimes USE In our opening sequence we
• Men murdered. are using crimes because:
• Tragically. • She kills the men
• Obsession. • It is suspicious because we don’t
• Paranoia from villain. know what happens
• Femme fatal. We are developing it :
• Suspicious . because:
DEVELOP • the murderer looks very normal
• The murderer looked so Valentina is pretty normal ,
normal . and doesn’t look as if she does
• death scenes. any of the things she does.

12. How are we using the conventions
in out opening sequence?
conventions Use/develop/challenge Description/Purpose
villain USE In our opening
• Femme fatale sequence we are using
• Murderer villain:
• Protagonist The femme fatale (villain)
• Seductive kills the victims after she
• Woman goes to bed with them.
• Attractive.

13. Sunset boulevard
Murdering men
Past obsessions
Tragedy
Death
Criminal
Guns
BY :Luara Anger
No consequence

14. DOUBLE IDEMNITY
The use of detective
Investigation
Talked into a murder
Falling for the person not allowed.
By:Luara

15. Inspirational Scenes
• Scenes from Basic Instinct:
A scene of the seductive women, getting the knife
while having sex with the partner to kill him.
Showing the women, being sexy
towards the investigator while being
interrogated.
Showing her being interrogated by
some police officers.
By:Kauana

16. Theme sadness
loss danger
harm
evil
passing
anger
scared
Tragedy Past/future
criminals
accident
desperate
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guns knifes

17. Luara&Kauana
Theme paranoia
flashbacks rage
victims
arguments
villains
disgust
Revenge
Betrayal Out of control
hatred Act without
love
thinking

18. Luara&Kauana
concept
IVESTIGATION
POLICE
BLOOD
CRIME
Murder
GUN
EVIL
KNIFE

19. The story.
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20. FILM STORY Luara&Kauana
1. Valentina is left at the altar , never forgetting that situation ,
she wants revenge.
2. She starts going out to pubs and clubs, to look for men, in
order to fulfil her emptiness.
3. After going to bed with them, she kills them without remorse
or regret. These men are being looked for and so a private
investigator takes on the case.
4. By investigating the case he finds out what Valentina has
been doing , and interrogates her.
5. After finding out everything, by her telling him. As normal she
seduces him with her femme fatale way of being, as she knew
he was a threat. After sleeping together she kills him
continuing with no consequences. And so her life goes on.

21. Opening sequence
1.Starting with pictures of the missing men
2.With an over shoulder shot, there will an in
interrogation between Valentina and the
investigator Smith.
3.Valetina without remorse starts to tell the story.
There comes a flashback.
4.Shows a scene of her meeting her friend
Kimberly and going inside a club. Then straight
after a scene of valentina coming out of the
doors , with a man. With a straight cut the
scene of her, opening the door and pushing
the man into bed. Without showing what
happens after.
5. After, it goes back to the scene of her and the
investigator and her going towards him
seducing him , the scenes fades out , and the
title ‘ Valentina’ comes up. Luara&Kauana

22. Target Audience
• Hobbies: Cinema, fashion, antique.
• Age: 30-40
• Gender: Mostly Female, but some older men.
• Lifestyle: Traditional, cultural, used to having technology but still
likening the old versions of films.
• Location: People that live in the city.
• Target audience would be involved with this movie because it
covers all there interest as the idea of the Opening Sequence covers
most of the conventions.
No. Yes. Yes.
BY:KAUANA

23. By:
Luara Opinions on film .
Name: Andre. Name: Ana Name: Yolanda.
Age:33 Age:48
Age:19 Gender : female
Gender : Female
Gender : Male
• Liked the style of film • Reminds her of when she
• Didn’t like the style of was young
noir.
movie.
• Like the story. • Liked the way its black and
• Think its too old.
white
• Don’t like black and white • thought it was
original. • Liked the story and though
movies.
it was interesting.

24. Main girl : Valetina
By :Luara
Way of being :
Sexy
dominant,
dangerous,
Flirtatious
seductive.
Costumes:
A Black dress
Black stilettos
Skin coloured tights
Props:
A small purse
Studs
Cigarette
Hair & Makeup
pinup ( eyeliner )
Red lips
kauana Very clear face
curled

25. One of the victims -
By :Luara
no name given.
Way of being :
womaniser
business man
self confident
macho.
INSPIRATION:
Shirt.
Black
trousers
and shoes.
George
Clooney’s hair
Luara in oceans 11.

26. Victim .
Trousers: Waistcoat: Fake
£30 £20 cigarette :
- next - next £1.85
-e-bay
shirt :
£15
-next By :Luara
Costumes Props Hair
A black trousers cigarette Neat
White shirt car keys To the side
Black shoes.
FULL BODY.

28. Investigator Smith

29. Location
• The desk for investigation
• This location will always be available.
• Its at one of the group members
house, its in Harlesden its very close to the school so it will be easy
to have access at any time to this place.
• You can just walk from school to the house. About 7mins walk.
• There are no health and safety concerns as it is situated at a safe
house.
By:Kauana

30. Creating enigma?
• Not showing the full scenes.
• Showing her open the door, but not showing what happens at the
end.
• Leaving the audience to think why is she admitting that she has
killed them
• Where do the men go, you see them go in but not coming out.
• The narration is creating enigma, because at the end the narration
is of the start of the poem Salome. It gets the audience to think.
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31. Narrativ
e
linear
1st – Her with the detective  present
2nd – Flashback of her with the men
 past
3rd – it goes back to her and the detective,
at the same time.
Although the contents of the story is nonlinear (flashback)
Luara&Kauana . The telling of the story is linear, from scene to scene.

32. Film Theory?
• We are using the theory of Vladimir Propp who
came up with stereotyped characters•
Valetina(main girl) : will be the typical villain
The men( one of the men) :will be the typical victim
Mr Smith (investigator) :typical victim/helper.
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33. Film Theory?
• We are using the theory of Tvzetan Todorov , who
came up with the theory of the narrative structure.
 Equilibrium  she is killing all the men , and no one has found out.
 Disequilibrium  the investigator finds out everything she had
done, and becomes a threat to her . She also kills the investigator.
 New equilibrium  there is no consequences to her acts.

34. Film Theory?
• We are using the Claude Levi-Strauss theory
of the narrative conflict
• 1.Femme fatale ( villain ) vs. Victim
• 2.Past vs. future – flashback , and what she
will do to the investigator.

35. Film distributing company.
Paramount Pictures UK.
Reasons :
• One of the oldest film distributers
• Distributed the most film noirs
** such as : Sunset Boulevard
• Distributed the most amount of film noirs.
• Serves film worldwide
• Good finance , they have make $300 million in 2011.

36. Film Distributing Company
• Columbia Pictures.
Reasons
- Partner ship with Paramount pictures
- It is within the 5 distributing companies that has distributed more
then 499 film noirs.
- Distributed world wide
- Has distributed new film noir.
- Has made a budget of $200 million in 2011.

37. Film distributing company
Twentieth century fox
• Reasons :
- Distributes a lot o suspense
- Such as planet of the apes.
- 2011 budget : $250 million
- Has stared Femme Fatales such as Marylyn Monroe.
- Distributes Worldwide.
- Distributes a lot of films with suspense genre.

38. Inspirations
. Titles&Credits
The postman Always Lady in the
Sunset Boulevard rings twice. lake.
•Blocks
• White
•Well separated
• Big size
•Black background.
•Shows seriousness.

39. Target Audience
• Hobbies: Cinema, fashion, antique.
• Age: 30-40
• Gender: Mostly Female, but some older men.
• Ethinicity: English/ American/ German.
• Lifestyle: Traditional, cultural, used to having technology but still likening
the old versions of films. Likes women power, feels proud about their sex.
Location: People that live in the city.
• Target Audience will be interested because our opening sequence shows
enigma, culture, fashionable and very feminist.
• They way our film is edited creates a lot of enigma, we use extreme close
up shots to emphasize important things. We also use zoom in and zoom
out to show different places and times. Flash backs are also used to show
scenes of the past to make the present scene more clear.

40. Target Audience Questionnaire
• Do you think film noir is suitable for this generation?
No, because this generation is more used to modern movies and style of life.
• Are you interested in movies in which tragedy and evilness occurs?
Yes, because it makes it more realistic as we have tragedy and evil in our
world today.
• Do you agree that murder should be involved in our story?
Yes as murder is an essential thing for film noir movies.
• Are the characters representation suitable for the story?
Yes they are because they are the typical characters used in film noir, the
woman being very sexual and attractive. The male being good looking but
being taking over by the woman, the investigator being serious.
• Do you think of using urban areas such as Harlesden in London make the
movie more inspirational and real to the viewers?
Yes it does because people might have gone by those streets already.
Amanda Oliveira.

41. Target Audience Questionnaire
• Do you think film noir is suitable for this generation?
• Are you interested in movies in which tragedy and evilness
occurs?
• Do you agree that murder should be involved in our story?
• Are the characters representation suitable for the story?
• Do you think of using urban areas such as Harlesden in
London make the movie more inspirational and real to the
viewers?

42. Target Audience Questionnaire
• Do you think film noir is suitable for this generation?
• Are you interested in movies in which tragedy and evilness
occurs?
• Do you agree that murder should be involved in our story?
• Are the characters representation suitable for the story?
• Do you think of using urban areas such as Harlesden in
London make the movie more inspirational and real to the
viewers?