1. History of Film Noir Jake, Paul, Jonny, Jack

2. First Films in Noir Film Noirs tend to portray Hollywood crime dramas. Film Noirs were made mostly in the 1940’s and 50’s with films such as “The Big Combo” and “The Big Sleep”. However, recent film noirs like “Se7en” are known as Neo-Noirs which are more updated and are in color. Unlike traditional film noirs which were in black and white.

3. Conventions of Film Noir The conventions of film noir were first instituted with the first film noir. The conventions include: smoking, drinking, rain, a corrupt cop, a femme fatale, a bad guy, set in the city and always set in a dark setting. Stories of film noirs are also very similar, they include a story line of a corrupt cop defeating a bad guy and in the end getting the femme fatale.

4. Actors/Actresses in Film Noir Robert Mitchum – (Out of the past, 1947) Ava Gardener – (The Killers, 1946) Marlene Dietrich – (The Blue Angel, 1930) Humphrey Bogart – (The Maltese Falcon, 1941) Cornel Wilde – (The Big Combo, 1955) Morgan Freeman – (Se7en, 1995) Kevin Spacey – (L.A Confidential, 1997)

5. The Big Combo and Se7en opening sequences http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QShabLiL1lA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEZK7mJoPLY

6. How film Noirs have changed Recent films such as Se7en and LA Confidential have all the aspects of a film noir, however, cannot be named as a film noir. Film noirs both reflect the culture and values of that at the time. Film Noirs tend to be post world war 2 whilst neo noirs tend to focus on the cities and traffic. Unlike film noirs were no traffic noises can be heard, more alleyways and silent backgrounds.