Post 11: Advanced Production Research Workshop 1

Creating a style for our short film would be effective and a style we have researched and looked into is lighting.

In class we looked at Film Noir. Film Noir is term used to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas in the 1940's - 1950's. Film Noir is associated with low-key black and white visual style that has roots in German cinematography.

These images are examples of Film Noir:

We can use lighting in our short films as a good way to emphasise shadows and highlights. We learned there are two different types of shadow attached and cast shadows.

We also learned that different lightning can affect textures and can dramatize any object. In class we did a practical and explored this technique. We completely blacked out the room then used a single light to bring up and show all the different textures on a shell.

This is the practical work that we done: