An Evaluation Of Blood Noir And The Dead Man During the making of the films, we decided to make one a drama thriller about a murder and detective, shot in the style, and in parody, of a film noir. The second film, The Dead Man, was shot hyper-realistically and in a mainly POV type way. We did this to give both films a sense of character and to use the films as metaphors for the characters themselves. Blood Noir being a steady-cam, black and white film gave it stability and a sense of professional production and also symbolises the hard-fact-based nature of the detective, David Doyle. We made the second film hyper-realistic to convey the madness inside of our murderer, Bogart Bates, and the hand-held sporadic movement creates an uneasiness throughout the film that is meant to seduce the viewer into a state of almost-fear. We also used contrapuntal music in The Dead Man to reinforce this. However, th...