In our thriller opening we wanted to make contextual referances through elements of mise en scene such as lighting, costume and characters. Having been inspired of our film but the classic genre of film noir we researched further and found that a female was often portrayed as a femme fatale, a femme fatale is often thought to be a beautiful women with a dark side. It is often common for them to use their beauty to wrap men around their little finger. As a group we decided we wanted to portray a similar character in our film.
Sin City, a 2005 black and white hit directed by Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez andQuentin Tarantino was an obvious choice when deciding want previous films we would want to influence our films. The femme fatale character is always shown in red costume in Sin city, this colour symbloizes the anger or love and passion she feels towards the men she is involved with. This is the element of femme ftale we have decided to replicate with our character, played by Catlin Mapes.
Other elements of costume we have decided to emulate from other films is costume, however we have dcided to do this from a more modern perspective. For example Black Widow from The Avengers is portrayed as a modern day femme fatale. Her red hair coveys the passion, love and anger however the black leather jacket may convey her emotional state, a hard exterior to protect what is inside. Usually a tradtional femme fatale has been heartbroken and therefore puts a front on to pretoect themselves from becoming hurt again.
This is a start, but you need to be more specific about how you've used shadows in your film. Include a screenshot from your thriller opening and put it alongside a screenshot that you are referencing so that we can see the similarity.
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