what is the exchange?

For this exercise we had to have people exchanging something of our choice, but we had to give it noir elements. So we chose our location, the dreary parts of christchurch park to give it the dark, seedy element that all noir movies have to them. Our story line was a guy meeting another in the dark tunnel of christchurch park and exchanging 'drugs' then sharing an approving nod. And one of the guy then goes of to meet a girl and they do yet another exchange and she walks off, leaving him looking rather sad as he expected her love in return.

We had to add the guy meeting the girl at the end as we didn't have enough shots for the first scene, and it filled it up perfectly, still keeping the noir feel.

We tried to place in noir elements as much as we could. For example we used silhouettes for the dark feel of danger. We dressed the femme fatale in a red dress to symbolize seduction and lust, her role was to get what she wanted of the protagonist, in which she did.

There are certain elements which if we could have achieved we would have done. For example filming at night, or having rain [if it wouldn't have ruined the equipment] But for what we had, i think we did a good job in capturing the feel of film noir.