Editing Suite; Using Final Cut



In this shot, we were using the video filters, namely the colour corrector, to turn down the saturation, fiddle with the blacks and whites, to get the film into black and white. Although this is't  convention as such of film noir, mostly because they were made during the 1940s and 50s when colour was just coming into films, it still seen as a hallmark of film noir.




Here I took a screen grab of the way in which we used effects on Final Cut; we played around with the speed, to address conventions of Neo Noir films, which use slow-motion and fast-forward a lot