This week we focussed on film noir, after doing my project 3 on noir I feel rather in touch with the bare essential foundations of film noir. The ‘genre’ of film noir is fairly contested as many believe noir is not truly a genre rather it is a mood and tone. Not signalled by conventions of settings or conflict – like those of the western or musical breed. However, I do dispute this in my most recent project as  I believe the city setting of the noir contributes something crucial to the tone/mood which is so deeply engrained in the genre. In project brief 4 I am thinking of potentially focussing on horror and film noir as a hybrid. The fusion of these two genres will be interesting – unsure where to direct my focus though the neo-noir intrigues me as it often plays with a more horror noir feel than those of the original film noir genre.