Research - Conventions I Have Learnt From My Five Analysis

Mise-en-scene

• Fits the time period 100% (1940 - 1950), type writers and stacks of paper are examples
• Common props include; Guns, spirit glasses for drinks such as whisky, classic (American) cars, ciggerretes, type writers and anything else which would fit into the storyline or time period. 

Costume 

• Very formal, men wear mainly suits, trousers, usually black shoes (however not always the case) and a shirt. There are some differences between the good and bad guys however, it doesn't effect the costumes so much. The villains do sometimes wear more black compared to the good guy wearing more pale colours, however the biggest difference between them is usually the props, setting and the over all build of the character. The leader of the Villain is usually big built and shows off his money by wearing jewellery and being driven around in a large expensive car. 
• Women tend to wear unrevealing but extravagant dresses with well styled and perfect hair.  All the clothing and hair styles reflect the fashion of the time period. 

Plot lines

• Plot lines almost always revolve around a independent detective trying to solve a mysterious murder or crime. (Hollywood Crime Drama) The murderer usually has power at hand and over powers the 'Good Guy' with the help of henchmen, and in some cases, a Femme Fetal. The Femme Fetal however as we know can swich sides between the good guy and the villains. 

Lighting 

• The lighting in all my analysis was obviously Black and white, however i have done more research on producing the perfect lighting for a Film Noir Scene. I found a Video makers website with an artical explaining how to create a film Noir style of Lighting. (http://www.videomaker.com/article/13548/), i will copy some of the text, then highlight the important information within it. ( the Darker the Orange highlighting the more important I think the quote is)

First of all, to get a good crisp shadow, you need a small intense light. This is called hard light. You can create hard light with a small, very intense lighting fixture. The sun is the best example of a hard light. Step out on any sunny day, and you will see the crisp shadows created by this very intense but small light source. Reflector spots, Fresnels, theatrical lekos and ellipsoidals make great hard lights. A bare bulb in a socket is also a hard light, but usually it does not provide enough light to give you the effect you need to create film noir-style scenes.

The second thing you need to remember about lighting is the difference between high- and low-key lighting. Remember, it has nothing to do with the key light in your lighting setup. Low- or high-key lighting is actually a result of the intensity of your fill light. If you have a lot of fill light, you have created high-key lighting, where the key and fill are almost equal in brightness. However, if you have very little or no fill light, then you have created low-key lighting.

The final thing you need to remember about lighting is that you need to use more light to get solid crisp blacks and stark whites. Just because it seems that a bare bulb in the ceiling is lighting a scene doesn't mean it is. A lot of new videographers are so enamored of their camera's low-light capability that they think they can get away with natural light or lighting a scene with everyday light bulbs. This is a long way from reality. If you shoot with natural light or the bulb in your living room lamp, you will end up with a picture that is full of dull grays and gray whites. You need to add light to the scene to increase the contrast between the dark and light areas. You want your blacks and shadows to be crisp black. You want your whites to be white. To get this, you need a very good low-key lighting setup. You can still make it look like a single bulb is lighting the scene, but the single bulb will be a 1K Fresnel or reflector spot mounted near the ceiling with its light beam very tightly focused.

Shots and editing

• Most shots are very simple, usually tracking a character 
• There is few edits due to the tracking
• When there are edits, either quick-cuts are used or simple fade ins and outs during scenes
• Shots are usualy steady
• The time film noirs where produced, producers where experimenting with different techniques including extreme angles such as extreme high and low angle shots.
• Film usually opens with credits over some backing footage, of which sometimes is a establishing shot or scene