Fear of not following convention

For a while we have known the film (and particularly the sequence) was not going to follow typical Film Noir conventions. This was mainly because we had adapted a gothic horror story. This has become an increasing worry to us and we are now really concerned.

We were originally reassured by the fact we had kept to certain conventions. The conventions are as follows:

• We were using a black and white filter
• We were setting it in the original sequence
• The story and characters are very similar to the typical film noir (Anti-Hero, Femme Fatale). 
• We have experimented with Chiaroscuro 

The issues we have had so far:

• We haven't filmed it as a typical film noir (e.g. focus pulls)
• The title sequence itself doesn't boast much iconography apart from the handgun.

We have also had the issue of how the title of the film hide should come up in the sequence. The examples shown below are typical of titles in noir Films. We do not believe that the style would fit in with the tone of the film.

This is the sort of font we want for the title but we fear we will lose even more touch with  the conventions.