Exploratory work born from film-noir research





description of the project
This short video experiment is the result of brief asking students to choose a film genre and build upon its defining characteristics.

I chose the film-noir genre.

problem
To create an effective and interesting extension of the research conducting into the film-noir genre.

solution
I discerned the key attributes of film noir to be:

Low Key Lighting
Emphasis on moral ambiguity and sexual motivation
1940s to the late 1950s
Roots in German Expressionist cinematography
Many of the prototypical stories and much of the attitude of classic noir derive from the hardboiled school of crime fiction that emerged in the United States during the Depression
Sets and scene artwork of expressionist films often reveal buildings of sharp angles, great heights, and crowded environments
Strong elements of monumentalism and modernism appear throughout the canon of German expressionism.

From here I chose to explore a relationship between sound and the environment, and in specific a sound-scape defined by a low key light generated from a 1930s song.

skills
Time remapping
Colour correction
Creative 3D space generation
Working with sound
Key framing