In the lesson we watched a few minutes of the film called This Gun is for hire, It was made in 1947. The generic conventions of the genre Film Noir is that they have a long intro introducing who is in the film, who directed it, who was the music by, You don't really see this much in films now but it was used in the film from the 1940s.
Also the characters clothes all look like the style of clothes you see in films about the mafia, with suits a hat and a long coat. Also all the women would be wearing dresses you wouldn't see them in jeans. Also the men seem to have more rights than women and they appear to be stronger than the women, they also show that women cant really defend themselves.
The Voices are more high pitched in a film noir film for the women and the men, Also when they are inside a room it always dark and it makes it hard to see what is on the background. In a way it is making you just focus on the characters or what they want you to focus on.
Towards the end we had different pieces of paper which is labeled with either something that is a generic convention of a film noir film or is not. We had to sort them into piles of if they were generic convention or not. We only had a few wrong we got most of them right, We wasn't sure what the neon lights meant, I thought it was more of a modern day thing, but the meaning was for on bars and restaurants where they had neon signs and a lot of film noir films include bars.
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