Kiss me deadly opening sequence

Mise en scene:
This opening is all focused on a women who runs down a street and seems to try to hitch hike a ride. But cars keep on driving past her. The road the runs along is very dark and straight. It seem to be somewhere where there are no buildings or street lights. This gives it a very isolated feeling.The car she hails is a old open top car driven by a man in coat  she is wearing a similar colour coat. The credits start rolling when they drive away and the credits are laid over the actual footage of them in the car. You then can only see very little.

Sound.
The first thing you heat is the woman panting while she runs down the road as well as her footsteps. Little later you can hear the engine of a car getting louder. Then the sound track starts playing. It is a orchestral track which gets louder and louder as does the car. This happens for every car driving past her until she stands in front of the car in the middle of the road when the music is very loud and the car screeches past he in a very loud fashion.She then runs up to the driver panting while he talks to her. She then gets in the car while the radio presenter talks and for the rest of the credits we only hear the song from the radio.

Cinematography
Most of the shots used we medium to wide shots focused either on the woman or on the cars. At the end we had a very long shot of the camera inside the car pointing outwards.

Edit.
All the edits used in this clip are straight edits. They always cut in relatively fast intervals to keep up tension and make the scene more action packed. At the end when everything has relaxed and they drive of there are no more cuts. Apart from the credits rolling.

Graphic breakdown of the hitch-hikers guide intro

What i need to incorporate in my film to make it look genuine.

To make our film look like a genuine opening of a feature film and a film noir film we will need a multiple of things.
We will need to introduce the characters, the story/plot and the setting of the film. The characters have to look like they could come from our time era and the area we chose to be set in. So we will need to research the typical clothing of the 50`s and decide where the film is supposed to be set in and find out details about that specific area.
For the plot and story line we need to make sure we can visually represent the theme of our film and make sure that it is clear but we also need to show credits which are always shown at the beginning of a film thy are also important in a theme way as they are often stylised in the same way as the rest of the movie which makes the movie look more organic.
The most iconic film noir trait is that they are black and white is important to include but the same iconic effect can still be achieved even when not completely shot in black and white. And as there is a great deal of realism in film nor movies this will need to included as well.

Film noir traits

Traits which are found across many movies of the film noire genre.

Film noir traits from ChrisSarafiant

Film pitch

Film noir pitch from ChrisSarafiant

Intro task

This is our intro task video of a noire style TV Show.

Genre research

 Film noir  is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas, particularly such that emphasize cynical attitudes and sexual motivations. Hollywood's classical film noir period is generally regarded as extending from the early 1940s to the late 1950s. Film noir of this era is associated with a low-key black-and-white visual style that has roots in German Expressionist cinematography. Many of the prototypical stories and much of the attitude of classic noir derive from the hardboiled school of crime fiction that emerged in the United States during the Great Depression.

Film noir is also known for its use of low-angle, wide-angle, and skewed, or Dutch angle shots. Other devices of disorientation relatively common in film noir include shots of people reflected in one or more mirrors, shots through curved or frosted glass or other distorting objects , and special effects sequences of a sometimes bizarre nature. Night-for-night shooting, as opposed to the Hollywood norm of day-for-night, was often employed. From the mid-1940s forward, location shooting became increasingly frequent in noir.

In an analysis of the visual approach of Kiss Me Deadly, a late and self-consciously stylized example of classic noir, critic Alain Silver describes how cinematographic choices emphasize the story's themes and mood. In one scene, the characters, seen through a "confusion of angular shapes", thus appear "caught in a tangible vortex or enclosed in a trap." Silver makes a case for how "side light is used ... to reflect character ambivalence", while shots of characters in which they are lit from below "conform to a convention of visual expression which associates shadows cast upward of the face with the unnatural and ominous".

Analysis

This is the video which was analysed

Analysis from ChrisSarafiant

This is our preliminary task.
In this video we have used cinematography elements such as match on action, shot reverse shot and the 180 degree rule. As well as low angle shots, hand held shots and tracking shots.
First Edit


 Second edit

This is the story board and shot list for our preliminary task.