Evalueation

       In this assignment we learnt about the Film Noir genre. So we learnt that it was created at the end of World War 2 and the start of the Prohibition because of the sudden shift between the american economy being driven by war back to the original way(Peace Time), so the film directors had to make do with the lack of manpower and equipment such as; Actors, Extras and Technicians.Since most of the males went off to fight in the war so not only with a distinct lack off new actors, there was a lack of new lights so if one breaks it would irreplaceable so the directors relied on a heavy amount of shadows.

       

      In film noir the clothing used are trench coat and clothing you would use when eating out in a fine dining restaurant such as; dresses, suits and high quality shoes etc. The locations they would usually use would be; dark alley ways, speak eases and apartment etc. This was because i was the most common place for plot development to take place.       

          In my research of film noir ideas I saw a poster for the 'Third Man' this got me thinking of the possibility of using the college building for a backdrop for the image another image that inspired me was the poster for 'Spectre' this is a James Bond film were it has the main actor in front of a wall so I could convey a strong message with just a single subject of interest.   

·    Within film noir there are three main lighting technique these are three point lighting, Chiaroscuro and Couloirs.

      

        Three Point Lighting: This is mainly made by using three different lights even though you can use more, it really depends on the director but this is the basic set up because you have the key light this is for filling in most of the face, then the back light is for the background and the fill light is a little bit more dim than the key light but it is for filling in any shadows left by the key light 

      Chiaroscuro: this technique emphasizes the shadows with a combination of harsh lighting and soft shadowing, this technique was developed mainly for painting so this is the first appearance of this genre     

        

      Couloirs: Couloirs or another phrase is Cookies, this is using a cut out on the lights to show a for example a Venetian blind. 

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      My ideas are to have a classmate to be an actor in my photo shoot and so i took at least 10 images of the entrance behind college building so I had the main actor stand on top of the spot lights so that i can be my key light because the natural was good enough to be both my back and fill light, then for the two images I took at home was a product shoot and a location shoot my first shoot was the product shoot so i brought in a glass, hat and an empty bottle of vodka and i used a three point lighting system for it and i also used a seamless background made out of a piece of black cardboard. My next was the location i had my farther be the actor so i had him do different poses that worked within the film noir genre.    

During this project we had to think of the time on when to take images so i deiced on taking images during the morning until midday so the exact time would be around 10 o'clock and then Finish at 12 the reason i deiced on this was because i had check a week before the actual shoot with the weather app on my phone so as the day progressed it would get more cloudy so during morning I took the different images in the tunnel in the morning so there is enough natural light to manipulate in photo shop as shown in the first of the two contact sheets. The second contact sheet underneath the first one was already edited by me since we also need to take images during our free time. these image was taken during the week break we got after we had already researched the basic knowledge of film noir, for this i had to take in my surroundings to find a suitable place for a photo shoot for example for the two product product shots i had to create a seamless background with two black pieces of card while the others are location shots. Luckily for me i had access to both of my first choices for the model were available and all of the props that i had brought in was useful in some way or the other such as the hat on my first contact sheet was in the correct time era for our film noir project. The equipment was a hassle to set up but when i got it sorted the rest of it was a breeze such as setting the ISO, i had this on a low setting since it was the morning and the was enough light within the tunnel to justify not having a high ISO.           

1st Contact Sheet

        2nd Contact Sheet

• Editing processes/techniques used (include screen shots)

For starters i had desaturated the image and then changed the the hue/saturation of the image to make it look like there are lots of shadows and it being dark but then it was too dark so i adjusted the exposure to show the actual model without having to manual chancing the brightness on a computer monitor.That was my first image for my second image i did the exact same thing however before i did it id cut out the actor in this image. my third one was the product shot and since i had already edited it in the same way as the other two but since it was on a seamless background i could just use the Quick select tool to quickly cut it out. My Final one was of the window within the classroom so i did the the same as stated before to make it look shadowy and dark then i cut the panes of glass out of the window to so that i could be seen as a backdoor or a jail cell.

  

Poster:

   DVD Cover:

    

The images only match up with design brief in the way of a single man standing in front of a bland image however i couldn't get the right props in since i needed some type of heavy machinery to create wind i would also need a metal case of some kind for the actor to hold. the things i would improve would be the setting because if i did in the TV studio within college the image of the actor would have cam out with a better quality.