How does MisFits follow Noir?

MisFits

Misfits episode 4, series 4 is called "Zombie Noir" and it has many reasons to be called this.

Story

The anti-hero called Curtis gets involved with a girl called "Lola" who is reported to be a trainee probation worker and being violently beaten by another man who he murders, because she persuaded him to with out asking directly. Later Curtis uses his powers to bring him back to life (turning the murdered man into a zombie) and asks him about Lola and how he knows her. Unfortunately the man quickly turns to a zombie after being confronted and bites Curtis which you find out abit later on but the man is killed for a second time. Later he searches this girls flat and finds a CD of her acting as a girl called Lola in front of an audience when the storm hits. He finds out she gets trapped as this character when she got caught in the storm. He confronts her  and gets away from her before he attempts to bite her as he's a zombie. She then self harms then later blames Curtis for it in front of another man. Curtis is hunted down by this man where he aims for Curtis but he questions Lola in his mind for a split second when he gets shot by Lola who's pops from behind him and she shoots Curtis as well. He falls to the ground and when she inspects him he bites her and shoots her in the head then takes himself off a high base where he falls by taking a bullet to the brain from himself.


What values it follows from Noir?

• Anti-Hero - Curtis with his unfortunate encounter with the zombie virus.
• Femme Fatal - Lola who caused men to kill other men for her.
• Smoke - Lola has a cigarette in her hand when she hears Curtis arrive.
• Classy clothes - Lola not once looks at all underdresses except a scene in the bedroom.
• Features in a City - It may not be a very busy place it still is definitely in a city. 
• Death by pistol - Gun shots happen a few times but only by pistols.

Neo Noir genre the SinCity way

SinCity   (2005) 

This film contains three different stories that all interlink one way or another.
Here's wiki page about the film.

The Hard Goodbye. (Part I)

Marv who looks like a giant ugly monster sleeps with a woman called Goldie who is found dead by Marv soon as he wakes up and he created his own quest to take revenge on who ever murdered Goldie.


The Big Fat Kill. (Part II)

Introduced to Shellie and her abusive ex-boyfriend Jackie and his little gang who forces his way into her flat but meet her new boyfriend who physically convinces him to leave her flat, but his mob are also chased down by her new boyfriend named Dwight and finds himself in a very awkward, violent  and awkward situation.

That Yellow Bastard. (Part III)

Hartigan is an old man who is currently suffering from a heart condition and is also a police officer who intercepts a child killer called Roark who is trying to rape a 11 year old girl called Nancy. Unfortunately John Hartigan gets framed for raping Nancy and is sent to prison but told he would receive a letter from her everyday but once the letters stop Hartigan goes out searching.



Values of Noir it follows.

-Black and white.
    Apart from blood ,some red clothing and a couple of eyes everything seems to be in black and white from start to finish.
-Dark lighting.
   Through out the film it seems to be night time with dark lighting.
-Smoking.
   Cigarettes or cigars seemed to be smoked by nearly every character. I believe a couple of times there are other things creating the smoke but it just adds to the suspense and suspicion of whats on the other side of that mist.
 -Guns.
  Alot of them are shown, from the pistol to the sub-machine guns.
-Based in a city rather then fields.
  It's based in a city called  Sin City.
-AntiHero.
  A hero with a fault be it anything but he's not perfect.
-Femme Fatal.
  A woman who has caught an interest in the antihero and vise versa but she has destruction and problems all around her.
-Girl next door.
  Woman who is innocent and completely opposite to the femme fatal  yet still has caught an interest in the AntiHero.
-Villain.
   Someone with evil intentions.
-Spontaneous love.
  Two characters maybe upset with each other and all of a sudden pull themselves together and start kissing or snogging.

Creative Application of Theory

-Preffered vs Oppositional
-Hedonist vs Traditionalist
-Passive vs Active
-Buckinghams Theories

Hansel and Gretel for horror/zombie lovers.

  - Hansel (Shia LaBeouf) and Gretel (Emma Watson) wonder onto a trail of blood after being abondened by society for a murder they never commited, find themselves in a small unpopulated village. They discover that the blood leads to an old hotel elevator shaft and while they're looking down the elevator shaft they happen to get pushed down towards a bottomless pit. That's when all of a sudden they are met with an army of undead in an old Elizabethan torture chamber.


Hansel and Gretel action version.

 - Hansel (Bruce Willis) and Gretel (Megan Fox). As the whole of planet earth undertakes a brutal beating from asteroids, Hansel and Gretel find a alien hidden inside one of the devastating rocks which sends both of Hanesl and Gretel into an invisible spaceship only a couple of miles above earth. Later they discover that the aliens were only trying to seek refuge from another evil race of creatures but the aliens accidently cause the orbit of rocks to collide with earth and are forced away by Hansel and Gretel.

Hansel and Gretel for romantics.

 - Hansel (Jonah Hill) and Gretel (Mila Kunis) are just friends from the same college and are neighbours but best friends also. But when Gretels boyfriend gets caught in a tragic car accident and loses his life Hansel plans to make sure Gretels is mentally stable. After going through ups and downs they realize they are in love with each other.

Preliminary Task

We were set to "Film and edit a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom s/he exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. This task should demonstrate: match on action, shot/reverse and the 180 degree rule."

Summed up:

• Film and edit.
• Open door and talk to another person.
• Exchange a couple of lines.
• Use Match on Action, Shot/Reverse shot and the 180 degree rule.

We must also plan:

• Storyboard.
• Script.

                                                                                   This picture explains the 180 degree rule. Where the characters have to stay on the same side relative to each other to help the audience understand movement off screen.

Here is a great example of shot reverse shot (youtube) and 180 degree rule.  

Technique to show character talking to each other.