Film Noir Evaluation

Recently on our course we had to learn about film Noirs and do a bit of research about them before producing one our self's. We did this project in groups of 5. My group members were Eyyaz, Jacq, Mohammed and Dennis.

Before we came up with our own idea we first did some research and both studied old film noirs like The Big sleep and modern film noirs like Watch men and Batman a dark knight. I would say we focused our studies on the story lines of each noir we watched and payed attention to all the little details that make a film noir dark themed. Then we started coming up with ideas of our own. To come up with a good story idea our group had regular meetings and noted down a lot of things as we developed on our idea and changed certain things as we made progress. I'd say in total roughly we had 4 meetings. On the last meeting we had we recorded all of what was said and then posted it on Blogger.


In the story My role was the previous husband of Dennis who dies just before the story of the film begins. Dennis's character was the crazy woman who murders her husband and Jacks character was the main character, The detective. Both Eyyaz and Jacq edited the film noir, I was on set as the sound man recording all of the sound and Mohammed was the camera man as well as Eyyaz as Eyyaz took on two roles in the making of Impure Truths.


Making the Noir took us 4 to 5 weeks. The reason why it took us so long to get everything done is because certain locations were unavailable at times and also there were times when some members of the crew/cast couldn't make it to the shoot so there were many delays.


I think that if we didn't have so much breaks, and every one was available more often, we could have finished the film noir a bit quicker and maybe improved things a bit and added a bit more detail but other than that I am happy with everything. I think the music was good, the acting and script was very good and the whole concept and twist was successfully hooking as a lot of my friends gave me good oral feed back about the noir.