Double Indemnity Analysis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI73zPyYq1o

I have annotated this clip of the film and compared it to any techniques we have decided to use for aspiration.
The titles are white, bold and simple. Our titles are red, bold but not simple, this is because we want our title font to look more feminine rather than a masculine font, so the audience see that the film is mainly based along the lines of a femme fatale, rather than gangster men, for example. The lighting at the beginning is used by the lamp posts and headlights of cars, for example, it is dark but you can see the lights glowing. These create alot of shadows and shadows are used alot throughout the whole clip, across the face and on the ground. These are created differently depending on where you put the camera. We have used lamp posts in our opening title sequence to help with lighting effects. Music is used to create tension and changes to suit the mood and what is happening, it tends to usually be slow jazz. Our opening title sequence has a piece of slow jazz and has a foreboding sound over it, to make it sound threatening. The men are in suits and top hats, they all look upper class, but one man who is obviously lower class, is treated alot differently by the upper class men, so this shows that class mattered when this film was set. Camera angles involve a lot of tracking, this is used in our opening title sequence, because we follow the femme fatale walking down the street. We soon learn that the film is about murder and violence, violence is a typical convention of film noir and we have decided to use a bit of violence in our opening title sequence. There is a voiceover used in this film, and we are putting a voiceover in ours because it narrates and helps the audience concentrate on what is going on, and allows the audience to hear about someone's point of view. The femme fatale has curly hair, dark lipstick, sexy voice, high heels, smart clothing, puts on lipstick whilst on camera, plays with nails. We have tried to use all these conventions in our opening title sequence, because after research these are the typical conventions of femme fatales. Men look important and powerful, however the women still play them and try to control them.