Thursday 24 September 2015

Film Noir Lighting style.

  1. Research ‘film noir’ focusing on the genre’s distinctive lighting style. Find a YouTube clip that fits the film noir genre and embed it alongside your research.

Basic lighting concepts

  • Typically use low-key lighting to create harsh shadows
  • They use a lot of high key and filler lighting to add particular focus

Other affects pro-dominantly used. 

  • intense lighting threw a window 
  • foggy backgrounds with back lighting 
  • shadowy figures 

information from premiumbeat. 


In the beginning you can see the idea of shadows and the top lights used to highlight expressions. 

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