Film Noir

Film Noir is a type of Hollywood crime drama styles which was introduce in the 1940’s to the early 1960’s shown is a terrifying, scary and creepy.

The film trailer: the Big Sleep, from 0.10 – 0.34 it has a high key lighting throughout with that scene using the lighting from above and the black lighting to set a mystery mood and sexy attitude  in the trailer  between the man and the women, this could connote  how the genre and the setting of the trailer. The lighting in the scene is really light, which can show all their facial expression and body language in the scene, then the how key lighting comes in to make a contrast (binary opposition) to set the mood in the trailer. Example it can show the man might have a dark side, from the dark lighting is mostly shown on him.     

The lighting for this scene is a contrast of white and black, these two colours can could connote death, evil, pure and good (binary opposition). Moreover there is a couple in the image holding each other together with indicant that they are in love but have shocked facial expression which can connote that they are scared. The shot is a long shot because it shows the setting of the film poster. Also the film poster is a high key lighting showing the shadow behind the couple in the image.  This can connote that someone is following the man and women or the man might have a different life or a past which can show the type of film it is.