Film Style and genre

In our group we have been especially taken with the idea of a film noir. "Noir" films are usually dark moody films, often focussing on crime and detectives. Most prominent in the 40's and 50's, film noir employed dark cinematography, usually using black and white film.

Recent films such as 'Brick' and 'Sin City' have also employed film noir with a more modern slant.

www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_noir
- Alex

1960's Nouvelle Vague films have also captured our interest because of their intimist psychological approach and because of their aim of creating films predominently for their style. Such films include À bout de souffle and Bande à part amongst others. A satorical short film that is stylized to appear like a nouvelle vague film is Je t'aime John Wayne: http://youtube.com/watch?v=dIkvl8dzvc0
This idea of stylizing our film to appear like another subgenre may appeal to us when we come to creating our own film.


A black comedy short called 'Stiffy';http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/filmnetwork/A10838045 also attracted our attention because of it's use of sepia tone and low flickering lighting to convey innocent romance, whilst it actually details human need, desire and fetish in its sinister entirety. This has opened new windows about how to include subliminal messages and duplicitious meanings in our film.

To gain some varied knowledge of other common genres of short films we searched the internet and have picked out what we feel are some of the best examples...

Comedy
Oedipus-told in comic verse!: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/filmnetwork/A7490685

Sweet:http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/filmnetwork/A18573753

Goodbye to the normals:

Music

Gorillaz-Feel Good Inc:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01C4RPEinM4

Unkle-Burn My Shadow: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/filmnetwork/A24064274