Similar Products- Film Noir Posters

All film Noir posters have certain characteristics and conventions that make them as unique as they currently are, they all have certain colours that dominate it and they all have to be designed in a certain way. For example if you have a look at the posters above they all are dominated by one stand out colour. This colour is usually red, this is because red represents danger and excitement; just like the characters and the stories in film noir movies. They are all artistically drawn by hand and all have a great amount of detail in facial expressions. This is most probably due to the production year of these films, done way before the ages of high powered movie technology. They are all hand drawn to get the image that the producer wants and the correct editing software, to produce the specific moment and effect that he is looking for.

The characters that are featured in these posters are another interesting topic for discussion, there is always a dominant male featured in it; most probably the detective or journalist and a very attractive, yet highly seductive lady. This is done to represent the genre that is film noir, a genre famous for their heroic detective and influential women. The way that the women is portrayed though however varies from film to film, is some off the films the women is starts out as villain with her primarily objective being to distort the hero from his main objective. In some films should would be a very attractive lady that has a genuinely romantic relationship with the detective and there are someone where the women starts out as a villain, but eventually converts into goodie after some sort of relationship with the hero. This is why the women is portrayed differently through each poster; with the first telling us that the women is highly unlikely to be a villain due to her bright yellow dress and unthreatening posture, however the same can-not be said for the lady in the 2^nd or 3^rd poster. The Lady in both of those looks very menacing, very seductive and very powerful; this is because of the bright red dress, bright red lipstick and confident pose. While the lady on the 4^th and 5^th poster seems to give the audience an air of uncertainty about their characters. Even though they are both wearing red lipstick and both have very reserved frowns there identity is somewhat hidden due to the reluctance to put the rest of them on the poster. These pictures both give out mixed signals to who the lady actually is.