Film Noir film directors (By Hayden Woodcock)

Robert Siodmak was a German Film Director best remembered as a thriller specialist and for a series of stylish Hollywood Film Noirs such as: 'The Killers,' 'Criss Cross,' 'Phantom Lady' and 'The Spiral Staircase.'

Alfred Hitchcock was an English Director and Producer, also referred as 'The Master of Suspense.' He was involved in pioneering many elements of the suspense and psychological thriller genres. Additionally, his well-known films are: 'Psycho,' 'Vertigo,' 'Rear Window' and 'Rebecca.'

Frank Miller is an American comic writer, artist and film director best known for his dark comic books and graphic novels such as: Ronin, Daredevil, 300 and Sin City. All of his films have a unique plot and visual quality.

All of these directors are influential for their different ways of creating a film, and we want to apply all of their traits to our trailer: suspense, psychological elements, unique plot, visual quality and a stylish and traditional Film Noir. 

Initial ideas (By Hubert Osinski)

Over the past few days we have been generating some initial ideas. We have decided that we would like to make a film noir trailer (plus associated poster and webpage) because it is a new genre for us with some unique conventions which we are looking forward to researching these before putting our research into practise for the final products

Will created a mindmap of our initial ideas which are mostly based on our prior knowledge of the genre.

Our Initial Ideas

Response to the brief

My group

I have decided to work with William Guy and Hubert Osinski again after a successful AS production, partly because I believe that they expertise in my weaknesses and also because we have experience together in working on the topics we enjoy. We have decided to do a Film Trailer in the style of 'Film Noir' because we feel that we can complete successful research in this genre and we also believe that it would attain an effective final trailer. Lastly, we hope to develop from last year by combatting our weaknesses and continuing to abide to our strengths and successes.
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