Lighting in Film noir
- Emphasizing shadows and harsh lighting creates a sense of volume and depth in your films that embodies the film noir style.
- To get hard crisp shadows, use a small intense light.
- Emphasize the difference between high and low-key lighting (lots of fill, high-key lighting)
- Using low-key lighting as well as emphasizing shadows and harsh lighting
The video is filmed in black and white which enhances the lighting as there is more tension created when a lighting is used. This is a Neo-noir as it exhibits many action codes and camera movements that are not identified in an old film noir film. For example the shaky camera when there is an action scene, there is hand held camera movements to show more realism when editing and viewing the scene. At 0:25 in the trailer, you see under-lighting moved gradually to a top lighting. This allows the character to look more intimidating and terrifying. As the camera moves slowly to his face, there is much more light focused on his face compared to his body. This implies that there is a use of back lighting emphasizing the contrast between light and dark imagery( generates visceral pleasure ).
From 0:18 to 0:19 the lighting transitions from under-lighting to top lighting reinforcing the high key lighting for more of a vivid experience when observing.
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