task 6

Fred MacMurray

Babara Stanwyck

Edward G Robinson

IN

Double Idemnity

Copyright MCMXLIV Paramount Pictures INC.

with

Porter Hall

Jean Heather

Tom Powers

Byron Barr

Richard Gaines

Furtunio Bonanova

John Philliber

Double Indemnity

Screenplay By

Billy Wilder and

Raymound Chandler

From the novel by

James M.Cain

Music score Miklos Rozsa

Director of Photography John Seitz A.S.C

Editorial Supervision Doane Harrison

Art Direction

Hans Dreier and Hal Pereira

Process Photography. Farciot Edouart, ADC.

Costumes by Edith Head

Makeup Artist …. Wally Westmore

Sound recording by Stanley Cooper and Walter Oberst

Set Decoration…. Bertram Granger

Directed by

Billy Wilder

All the way at the start of double indemnity they fade all the credit scene to try and set the scene. The way they do this is but a fade and this means when it changes to the next set of titles it slowly comes to replace the next one. This connects to the narrative of how they start to set the story but as soon as you get to the start of movie they instantly go to cut scenes and this gives a feeling of the tension growing and as soon as you see it shows the car speeding and it puts you on the edge of your seat. As it goes from the fade to the cut you don’t expect it and that gives a certain edge to it. Also the story starts off by us showing a man who has been injured and then it goes straight to a guy rushing through a city and you would kind of expect this from a Film Noir. Then after the tense moments of the car rushing through the city it goes back to fades. Also the story shows a man driving quickly through a city and it shows that it is something urgent.

The

J.Arthur Rank

Organisation

presents

An

Independent Artists

Picture

The Dark Man

Edward Underdown

Maxwell Reed

Natasha Parry

William Hartnell

Barbara Murray

in

Jeffrey Dell’s

THE DARK MAN

Copyright MCML Idependent Artists LTD

Director of Photography Eric Cross

Art Director George Haslam

Film Editor Geoffrey Muller

Production Supervisor Jack Hicks

1st Assistant George Mills

2nd Assistant director Ted Holliday

Camera Operator Harrold Haysom

Continuity Pamela Carlton

Costumes Phyllis Dalton

Make Up Jack Craig

Wardrobe M.E Gillett

Sound recordist Dick Smith, Laurence Clarkson

Music

By

Hubert Clifford

Produced

By

Julian Wintle

All thought titles and the scenes of the Dark Man they use either cuts scenes or fade scenes. At the start they use fade scenes to go from one credit to another. But what they do well is they split the credits with short scene of acting and here they also use the fade cuts. This means that when one credit goes the next one slowly fades in. But as the last to screen grabs they start to use the cut scene and this increase the intensity of the movie which puts you on the edge of your seat. But going back to the start with the fade scene and the acting scene it creates a calm atmosphere and also builds the scene. What you can see in the dark man is a man is in a car and getting driven to a house and when he gets there he kills a man for some money.