L.A Noir

Like Film Noir L.A Noir uses lighting as its main distinctive feature. Film Noir uses light to engage the audience in the emotions of the movie, Film Noir is filmed in black and white so the lighting is emphasized, but mainly because high quality colour had not been developed in the post war period that film noir was promenade in. L.A Noir however is filmed in colour but it has a hint of chrome in it.

the use of crome lighing.

L.A Noir like film Noir uses many binary opposites such as good and evil, male and female, corruption and justice, life and death, and power and powerless. Another convention is that L.A Noir uses a voice over at the start to establish the movie in L.A Confidential Danny De Vito does an establishing voiceover right at the start. It tell the audience about L.A and the hidden crime and corruption that is masked by the outer sunny exterior. Normally if you want high contrasted shadows then L.A would not come into mind first. L.A is hot and very sunny but the film makers still manage to incorporate the most important feature, shadows.

the shot on the right is of the use of shadows in the film noir classic "The Third Man". and the shot on the left is a shot of the movie "The Black Dahlia". they both use shadows in important but very diffrent ways. L.A Noir is set in L.A which is a very sunny place but they still seem to be able to use shadows well.

L.A Noir incorporates some important unique parts of L.A. Such as the jazz scene in L.A. it uses a lot of jazz in the background, even over the voiceover at the start of L.A Confidential. This is emphasizes the underlying corruption of L.A and makes the audience think about the crime and corruption. One of the most important parts of Film Noir is the use of a mysteries female character (femfatel). L.A Noir also has the use of this. The costumes worn by the woman are elaborate and seductive, also the use of smoking is made to look sexy and exciting.

the elabarated dresed woman (femfetel), she is also smoking which is a iportant part of the seductiveness of L.A Noir and Film Noir.

The point of Film Noir was to point out the darkness and deception to the public after the World Wars. L.A Noir does the same thing by showing the public that L.A isn’t all fame and fortune, there’s lots of crime and corruption even in the police force (The Black Dahlia). This is the main objective in the genre that is L.A Noir.

corruption in the police force