The questions we had to answer were basically asking us about where the picture was being taken and what elements were being used during this image.
Once we answered the questions we had to do some research on 'Film Noir' and had to find some images that represented what we understood about 'Film Noir' we had to explain when we thought the photographs were taken and why we thought this.
Here are two of the images that I found when I was researching -
Once we did this, we had to do some more research! we had to research 5 Film Noir posters or DVD covers and give a little description about each poster, this helped us a lot with understanding what had to be on a poster and DVD cover when we were making our own.
Here is one of the Posters I found.
Once we did all the research about different things, we finally had to take a think and try and find some 'Film Noir' Images that we wanted to take forward and try and recreate ourselves, we then also had to explain why we had chosen to use the images that we did.
Here are 2 images I wanted to try and recreate -
During each lesson, at the start we always had to do a memory check, these always included things that we learnt in the previous lesson, this helped all of us remember things.
During the memory checks, there were loads of questions and we had to give the best answer, once we had all finished we then had to share our answers with the class to make sure everybody understood what we have been learning. This helps a lot when somebody is away one week as it helps them keep up with the work.
The week after, we finally got allow out to take some test shots for our DVD cover or poster, we had loads of ideas but the ones that I wanted to try and recreate were too hard as we couldn't get the props therefore we changed our mind and I used Leah as my model and took some different shots, once we took all of our shots as we had to take 10 images of the same shot, we had to make some contact sheets for our images, here are my contact sheets -
Once we uploaded the contact sheets, we then had to find 4 images that we really liked to take forward to edit, these are the four images I chose -
I have chosen these four images as I feel like they were my strongest images out of them all, I really liked how they were taken and the position that they are all taken in.
The props used in these were Leah's dress as it was really vintage - she was a really good model for these images as her make up made her look really vintage as well.
After we did this, we then had to put together our DVD cover and Poster using these photographs that we had taken
Here is the DVD cover and Poster that I made using Photoshop using these images -
The lightening used for 'Film Noir' were mainly, Key lighting, Back lighting and also Fill lighting.
My test shots really helped me with my final shots as I looked and edited quite a few of them and then there was loads of images to look at to see which ones stood out and which ones were the strongest of all my images, I felt like I could really tell which ones were the best out of all the images that I had taken. When editing my images, I made them black and white to start with and then I used 'levels and curves' to change the highlights and shadows via Photoshop.
If I was to do this assignment again then I would may be come more prepared and bring some more props therefore this would of made the images look more like the ones I was trying to recreate, I would also look around and try and find some more good backgrounds that were more darker and more like 'Film Noir'.
I really like my poster and DVD cover as it's all what I have done, all the images are my own and I created it from scratch.
