Film Noir Style Images - Unedited

Here are our groups photos from our shoot. The objective of the shoot was to recreate or create film noir images. We chose to recreate what was on the hand out, the images we used to recreate will be shown on a different post with some edited images, however this post just includes our original unedited photos.

This photo is of an inspector/anti hero (me) looking at the femme fetal's dead body. The use of light and shadows worked well in this picture, as the foreground is light and the background is dark. However, this picture is not one of my favourites as you can see Cal's leg, who is taking the photo.

I love this picture as the use of light and shadows is exactly what we wanted. We used the Drama room, with no lights on, and the outside room with natural light and doors with windows to create this. The edited photo, as shown in my next post, looks even better as the silouettes are more outlined.

This picture is a little confusing, what should be shown is an inspector/ anti hero, looking through a door or window to a woman and man. The female is doing her lipstick and the male adjusting his tie. This photo isn't very film noir as the angle is rather boring and the lighting is normal, however the anti hero / inspector is in a shadow, and his face is in the light, which is good.

This picture is of the anti hero smoking a cigarette. I like this picture, however, the cigarette isn't real which is clear to see, and makes the photo look childish. Also, his face isn't in the light, as it is in the original image. After editing this photo, it does look better, however no problems were really solved.

This picture is of the anti hero and femme fetal. This photo looks very similar to the original, however the only problem is that the ash tray, isn't really an ash tray. Other than this, the lighting and characters look like the original.

This photo is supposed to be of the femme fetal with the shadow of Venetian blinds across her. As we didn't have Venetian blinds we had to improvise with fingers over the light source, this didn't work out too well.

This is me as the anti hero. We took this photo outside and so the lighting isn't very film noir and also the fake cigarette is obvious, however, I am in the foreground, the angle is like depth of field, which is conventional of film noir, and I am wearing the fedora and suit jacket. If I edited this photo, I would darken the back ground. Also, to make this photo more film  noir, we should have taken the photo when it was raining and in an urban area, rather than a field.

This picture is good as the anti hero is shown in the foreground and I, the inspector is in a good area for the mid ground. However, the location isn't very film noir because of the weather.

This photo is of the anti hero, which is supposed to be over some stairs. Because of our location we couldn't have stairs in the picture, but we made use of the stage in our school. Also, as we took the photo from a higher angle, it is a different angle from other photos.

This photo is of the anti hero smoking a cigarette with someone in the background. This photo is ok, as the over the shoulder angle hasn't been used before, however I am not in focus, the stage is, and really it should be the other way round. If I edited this, I would make the whole image darker, and increase contrast, so the cigarette was more defined in the light as it is in the picture.