A film that starts off by building tension a slow tilt showing a small dead child with angel wings, like a fallen angel, this shows a murder already and this is a major part of film noir, as they usually involve some sort of crime. The next scene (using a fade edit and continuing the tilt) is of the anti-hero/protagonist, he is beaten up, which shows he is flawed, making him an anti-hero not a proper hero. The next scene is of him driving in his car down a rural road in the rain. A voice over states that he has just failed in london where he was attending his fathers funeral, once again showing his flaws. the colours of this OTS Neo-Noir are almost monochrome, the colours are all quite whitewashed brown colours, with very high shadow contrast. The music is very unconventional because it is acoustic guitar, where-as it is normal for a film noir to have an orchestra. However, it did use a voice-over which is conventional. The colour scheme is very conventional to Film Noir except it is in colour, not monochrome. The contrast is very high, which means the scenes are either very dark or very light. This is highly conventional of a film noir which tended to be very dark films. Another convention used in blade runner is the fact that it uses an urban backdrop however it is extremely unconventional because the city is completely Sci-Fi with explosions, flying cars and hologramatic advertising.
Maholand Drive
Urban and dark Maholand drive starts off very conventional however it soon goes completely unconventional. It goes to a clip of very abstract dancing with bright purple backgrounds. It is also unconventional in the fact that the hero is a woman, as well as the femme fatal. The following scenes are all set at night in the dark, following a car. This gives a very bright light contrast from the headlights. When a crash is shown in the clip we watched, the explosion is a brilliant white (magnesium powder most likely used) which is another good colour contrast.
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