Codes & Conventions

Film Noir

In film noir's they contain many codes and conventions for example:

• Sound
• Lighting 
• Narrative
• Use of language
• Mise-en-Scene
• Character
• Iconography
• Use of the camera

When they use to film film noir's, they only used one light source like coming through some blinds, candles or a lamp. This is because they didn't have the technology that we have today or the money so they had to spend as little as possible on making the films. They would also use things like dry ice to create smoke too. 

In the films they used props such as a trilby hat, trench coat, identity badge, cigarettes, alcohol etc... This is called iconography when they use symbols or typical things that are all in the same sort of films in other words, the genre of films.

The characters in film noir's are usually detectives, a victim and someone that helps the victim. The murderer usually plays up to be the victim normally as a femme fatal where they draw in the detective to brainwash him into thinking she is the victim kind of like a scenario with a spider and a fly - she is the spider twisting the detective around her finger to try and convince him.