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I believe that for film noir the major target audience is for the older range people as most of them are working class people I think the age suitable is around 35+, however all ages may like but this specific age is the most common.
The Film Noir I am creating will give them the usual convention that a usual film has and givew the a good narrative plot which will hook them.

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Sunset Boulevard
This Film uses many of the main conventions of film noir and this is shown in opening sequence, for example the credits at the start instead of end are main feature of this genre. Also the tradition USA setting is shown as Hollywood is the setting. The films opening starts off by using a tradition film noir detective and police theme this is shown when a big crime is taken place, this is immediately shown.
Double Identity 
From the opening of this film shows us a detective figure straight away and this is a main convention of the genre. This opening doesn't give much narrative to the audience just makes us think whats happening, where we see a very conventionally lit film noir opening with the main features. The lighting would be considered to use in my own projects e.g. street lights.
Touch of Evil
This Film noir opening is very conventional like the other using long trench coats, old cars and dark lighting. This opening is also different how it uses one long shot and grips us as we are shown with a bomb and an explosion between the both you are hooked and want to know when it goes off and why he does it. The feature I like most is the shadows used to portray how evil the villain is.

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Here are three Film Noir Posters, it is common in most of these poster they are in colour even though the film isn't this seems to be a strong convention through there posters. This specific characteristic of the posters helps attract customers to see the films as they are more attention grabbing. Furthermore In these posters different characters are portrayed. These two main characters are the femme fatales, and the detective figure. The females are portrayed as suave and sexy characters who get there way and use there looks to get what they want. While the male figures look upper class and smart, this gives them an intelligent look and shows their whole detective persona.

Main Task - My Team

On this Project i am working with Jake Howells and Stephen Page.

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Film Noir is French for the words Black Cinema, Film Noir has been Known for putting black and white into movies.
The Majority of Film Noirs are set on Sex, Crime and Corruption.

It is set around low set writing and urban settings with a gloomy ending.

Film Noir has main conventions to its filming here are them:
- Costume (long jackets, detetetive outfits)
- Characters/Actors (detectives and journalists)
- Location (USA)
- Camera Angles and Shots (use strange camera work)
- Lighting (dim and smartly lit)

5 Plots :

• Sunset Boulevard - set in '50s Hollywood, focuses on Norma Desmond, a silent-screen goddess whose pathetic belief in her own indestructibility has turned her into a demented recluse. The crumbling Sunset Boulevard mansion where she lives with only her butler, Max who was once her director and husband has become her self-contained world. Norma dreams of a comeback to pictures and she begins a relationship with Joe Gillis, a small-time writer who becomes her lover, that will soon end with murder and total madness. (IMDB)
• Double identity In 1938, Walter Neff, an experienced salesman of the Pacific All Risk Insurance Co., meets the seductive wife of one of his clients, Phyllis Dietrichson, and they have an affair. Phyllis proposes to kill her husband to receive the proceeds of an accident insurance policy and Walter devises a scheme to receive twice the amount based on a double indemnity clause. When Mr. Dietrichson is found dead on a train-track, the police accept the determination of accidental death. However, the insurance analyst and Walter's best friend Barton Keyes does not buy the story and suspects that Phyllis has murdered her husband with the help of another man (IMDB)
• Notorious - Following the conviction of her German father for treason against the U.S., Alicia Huberman takes to drink and men. She is approached by a government agent (T.R. Devlin) who asks her to spy on a group of her father's Nazi friends operating out of Rio de Janeiro. A romance develops between Alicia and Devlin, but she starts to get too involved in her work (IMDB)
• The Third Man - An out of work pulp fiction novelist, Holly Martins, arrives in a post war Vienna divided into sectors by the victorious allies, and where a shortage of supplies has lead to a flourishing black market. He arrives at the invitation of an ex-school friend, Harry Lime, who has offered him a job, only to discover that Lime has recently died in a peculiar traffic accident. From talking to Lime's friends and associates Martins soon notices that some of the stories are inconsistent, and determines to discover what really happened to Harry Lime. (IMDB)
• The Maltese Falcon - Spade and Archer is the name of a San Francisco detective agency. That's for Sam Spade and Miles Archer. The two men are partners, but Sam doesn't like Miles much. A knockout, who goes by the name of Miss Wanderly, walks into their office; and by that night everything's changed. Miles is dead. And so is a man named Floyd Thursby. It seems Miss Wanderly is surrounded by dangerous men. There's Joel Cairo, who uses gardenia-scented calling cards. There's Kasper Gutman, with his enormous girth and feigned civility. Her only hope of protection comes from Sam, who is suspected by the police of one or the other murder. More murders are yet to come, and it will all be because of these dangerous men -- and their lust for a statuette of a bird: the Maltese Falcon (IMDB)