Conventions we are planning to follow or subvert (By Hubert Osinski)

Conventions to Follow:

• Dark, isolated location - This will appeal to our target audience because this is a conventional location for Film Noir, thus the audience will expect this. Additionally, this will connote the themes of corruption and mayhem, and allow the exploration of low-key lighting.
• Use of colour red - This will appeal to our audience because it is a modern way of denoting the conventional themes of blood and to represent a stereotypical Propp antagonist.
• Low key lighting, shadows - These will attract our audience because they connote mystery, relating to the genre narrative and style, whilst engaging the audience through suspense.
• Eerie atmosphere - This would attract our target audience because it will put them on the edge and encourage them to watch the film, wanting to be informed. Again, it creates suspense, thus the target audience.
• Dutch and inverted angles - These shot types and angles are common in Film Noir, as well as the horror genre because they provide distortion, making the connotations and audience experience more complex and awkward. As a result, tension is formed, relating to the plots of both genres. Moreover, the angles provide variation for audience pleasure.  
• Reflections/blinds-This will appeal to the Film Noir primary target audience because this prop type is essential within this genre. So, this is an audience expectation and will soothe them through recognition.
• Betrayal-This theme is conventional for our hybrid genres, being commonly used for plot twists, especially in relation to love or affairs. Therefore, this theme provides variation to widen the audience interest to various demographics and further psychographics in the way that females in particular stereotypically prefer aspects of love.
• Smoke/fog (perhaps, depending on location etc)-This will be exciting to explore and incorporate because it will clearly create mystery and as a convention we want to use this, especially when it will work well with the horror genre. However, this convention will be hard to use because of the lack of profit and our inability to get and use a smoke machine.

Conventions to not follow:

• Teenage victims (horror)-This convention is only use in horror films, so it will not relate to the Noir style. Thus, in order to prevent confusion we are not planning to use this convention.
• Last man standing (horror)-Again this is a particular horror convention that would likely not suit the Film Noir genre because we do not intend on killing of a lot of the characters, especially when we are approaching a tongue-and-cheek style.
• Typical horror weapons such as chainsaws-Another subjective convention, that we will not use because of lack of realism and relatability to Noir.
• Eroticism-We are struggling to find and think of an appropriate actress to play a Femme Fatale, so this will instantly prevent the use of profound eroticism.
• Deep Focus-Due to technical limitations this will be hard to incorporate, however we will experiment with our camera work to get more footage that might actually work.
  

•