nOiR

This topic has totally pumped my adrenaline nerves to the max baby.
We're going to film a noir video clip based on our own cult,yet we're acting as the producer,director,actress/actor, or even light-man and camera man in the whole film.
How great is that???!!!

However, to produce a fine noir film is definitely ain't a easy task,damn!!
We got a lot of referencing and homework to do before the actual shooting,brainstorming as well.
Our beloved lecturer Mr Charles told us to do a ideation crit to make it more organised in our production and progress.

Based on my understanding about Noir:
NOIR = BLACK

Yup~
Black is deep.
Black is meaningful.
Black is reality.
Black is emotional.
Black is calmness.
Black is bad ass.
Black is ME~

For me, Noir film is one of the hardest and classic type of film which had ever made in our century.
One single scene is able to portrait more than one type of meaning and emotion by playing with the light and composition.
Sounds simple yet deep instead~

Based on my research, I have found out some of the basic techniques of filming a noir movie.

• Three Point Lighting

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Well, this is pretty much the basic lighting position of a noir film.

The most important light is the key light and the background light.

The fill light is not the dominant light in the case, it helps to saturate the contrast of the light on the model's face.Hence it becomes something interesting in manipulating the shadows too.

• Cucoloris Effect (cookies)

http://filmmakeriq.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Cucoloris.jpg

Cut out of wood or plastic and act as an obstacles to block the light in a sense to create the Cookies effect.
This technique is highly used in classic Noir film especially in detective genre and horror genre.

http://desirnoir.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Film_Noir_by_kidspy.jpg

http://media02.hongkiat.com/film-noir-digital-artworks/film-noir-detective.jpg

http://screensense.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/noirbars.jpg

• Smoke effect

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Smoke effect is essential in the classic noir film.

Because smoke can create a highly prolific sense of mysterious and blurred contrast which enhance the black & white film greatly.

Although I does not encourage smoking but in my opinion, smoking is acting as a important factor in the noir film.

Is correct we can use dry ice to replace the cigarette, but due to our production cost, dry ice is not the first choice.