Past The Point Of Noir Return reflective analysis

My groups intention was to make a short film noir sequence to a good standard and I believe that we achieved this. We included a variety of shots and angles to fit the conventions of the genre, for example, a high angle, a two shot and an extreme close up. The high angle in the middle of the sequence is used to show the area but also to imply weakness within characters; the two characters are walking but the first is being followed by the second but the angle type shows that both are vulnerable. Non-diegetic music is also running throughout the entire feature to create atmosphere. The whole sequence is in black and white to imply it is old and dark. I played the 'femme fatale', a classic character of the film noir genre. There were a couple of things that we could not include due to time issues like a prop gun for the shooting scene which we improvised with a picture of a gun or clouds of cigarette smoke as we did not have an cigarettes readily available. Another well known convention of film noir is a voice over from the male lead character so i scripted our voice over to fit to the shots perfectly and using the same colloquial terms that were used in the original film noir movies. In my opinion, the film came together well as my group all worked well together to produce the final product.