Film Noir Slang. (partner Efrain Rivera)

-Man i be on the nut 24/7! im tired of it

-This leaves us behind the eight-ball because we have no berries.

-i have a idea! lets rob that smoke down the street!

-Im not going to the big house! I gotta go have a stick of tea first.

-Im so snowed i cant have any of that right now

-Why don't we go downtown and dip people for there dough.

-Alright but if the elephant ears show up im going to fade.

Film Noir

1. Film noir is a style or genre cinematographic film marked by a mood of pessimism, fatalism, and menace.

2. The definition of the film critics is not really a definition. Most of them just said that there was no real definition to describe it. Others said that it was the opposite of the all American success story. Most containing crimes, with the old school detectives involving innocent people.

3. I have seen a quintessential film in class called Double Indemnity. I recognize one director, named Fritz Lang. But I think thats about it. Ohh wait, and also Alfred Hitchcock and Orson Welles.

Film Studies Binder Check

1) I have one binder with dividers. One of them is specifically for film studies. I also have a separate folder on my desktop with some of the assignments we have done.

2) We did some comparisons (ven-diagrams) of two movies, or two actors and their style of acting. We did some review papers. And also questions that refer to only one movie going into depth about the lighting and all the other film techniques. We did podcasts, video works such as the montage, and also reviews on a movie of our choice.

3) In the class, we are at 1941 talking about Citizen Kane and Orson Welles.

4) My view of film has changed since the start of the class. It makes me appreciate more of the earlier films and I actually do watch them on my own time. I like the older ones a little bit better than the newer ones because its more real and not all special effects like movies nowaday. It shows me where cinema first started and how the comedy films were a lot better back then. Now that was real comedy.

5) We did the montage project and the podcast. It helped me to look more in depth on the film other than the story line.