The low-key lighting schemes of many classic film noirs are associated with stark light/dark contrasts and dramatic shadow patterning. The shadows of Venetian blinds or banister rods, cast upon an actor, a wall, or an entire set, are an iconic visual in noir, Characters' faces may be partially or wholly obscured by darkness. While black-and-white cinematography is considered to be essential attributes of classic noir. Film noir is also known for its use of low-angle, wide-angle, and skewed shots, with shots of people reflected in one or more mirrors or other distorting objects.
Film noir often used music that could be going on in the background and also used it for displaying characteristics of the cast. Sound tracks in genuinely complex ways, stories using sound alone; its popularity had accustomed listening audiences to understand complex layering of sound.
Film noir borrows its paraphernalia from other forms, usually from the crime and detective genres, but often overlapping into thrillers and horror. Film noir is often associated with an urban setting such as Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York. Noir would often used the same sets and scenes from gangster movies as they couldn’t afford their own as often industrial settings; refineries, factories and train yards.
The narrative is generally obscure and frames the entire primary narrative as a flashback, narration, sometimes used as a structuring device. Noir is 
generally associated with first-person narration.
Film noirs tend to revolve around heroes who are more flawed and morally questionable than the norm, often fall guys, femme fatales and corrupt policemen. Among these characters there would be a lot of cigarette smoking.
Crime, usually murder, is an element of almost all film noirs where jealousy is the centre. Other common plots the protagonists are implicated in heists or con games, or in murderous conspiracies often involving adulterous affairs and heroes who are morally questionable.
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