Film Noir

Film noir have the element of crime-usually murder. Motivations for the crimes are generally greed or jealously, just like our storyline Marilyn is after the money in her relationship.It mainly consists of American films of the 1940′s and 1950′s, exploring the darker aspects of modernity, exploring the consequences of a criminal act.The scenes of film noir are all disturbingly familiar, as are the archetypal characters: the hard-boiled detective, the dangerously alluring femme fatale, and the well-heeled villain surrounded by gun-toting thugs. We've subverted our film with women playing male roles and our cast is mostly women and our detective being a woman rather than a male.

  

Our storyline

In the beginning opening scene, Marilyn is ringing the police to say her husband has been murdered, but what the audience don’t know is that she is the murder. We then cut to the police at her house; the audience don’t get to see the actual body, just the chalk outline. The detective then begins to ask questions and interrogates her but doesn’t suspect it’s in fact Marilyn. She figures out someone knows her secret, then commits another crime and kills somebody else, Clues are then found which leads the detective to Marylyn killing her husband.  The detective then goes to arrest her but she refuses, then again tries to kill the detective but luckily his partner is there and stops her and kills her before she can commit another murder.

Theatrical trailers

Theatrical trailers are multimodal text which show a meaning through the uses of written text,moving images,sound effects and the spoken language. They're much longer than teaser trailers and are shown in theatres 4-6 months before the actual realease. Usually lasting between 1-2 minutes long, which consists of montages of the most exciting parts of the film which leads there audience hooked into wanting to watch the film on its release date. Trailers are commonly shown in cinemas, but with all these social networking sites, ‘Facebook’ ,’MySpace’ they’re becoming more popular to be shown on them, and 'YouTube' is another very popular site which users can upload, share and view videos on a daily basis. On television ad breaks they're getting the awareness of which their target audience is watching using the appropriate iconography. Like televsion spots they're like teaser trailers with a short 1-2minute short clip, which gives a quick picture to show what is going to occur in the film. What is different in a television ad is that the producers are able to show different clips that aren't in the film, if they want it to be different to their theatrical trailer, the use of big budgets film only use this way of advertsing to promote their film further.

An introduction to trailers

A trailer is a preview/advertisement for a upcoming new film, now time is progressing trailers are becoming more popular on DVD'S as well as the internet and mobile phones. Movie teaser trailers are usually very short in length and show little footage, their purpose is to let the audience know that this film is upcoming. Teaser trailers unlike theatrical; trailers, are usually last about 30-60 seconds and tend to be very short in length, with little footage from the film. They’re usually made while the film is still in the production process.Some teasrer trailers can take up to 3 years late prior to how the movie production is coming along, they're usually showna year in advance so little shots are shown.


 An early example of a teaser trailer is the Superman film by Richard Donner its purpose was to be designed to reinvigorate interest of the release.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhNdBesiKbQ&feature=player_embedded