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BY MANSOUR

AHAIDI

NOIR LIGHTING

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The defining characteristic of Film Noir lighting is a low key style called Chiaroscuro which uses light and the shade in pictorial representation.

Chiaroscuro uses a combination of shadows and harsh lighting to create a sense of depth and volume in the paintings.

Cinematographers working in the classical film noir era sought to do the same thing trying to overcome the bland flatness that bright black and white film could have if there’s not much contrast.

LIGHT TECHNIQUES

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Most Film noir cinematographers used a three point lighting scheme.

The Key Light is the main light that illuminates the scene and the character’s face.

Complementing the key is the Fill light, which is the opposite of the key light that fills in the shadows. The Backlight adds an outline to separate the characters from the background.

The most obvious lights in Film Noir are the Key and Back light. The fill light is also very important because it strengthens the contrast between the black and the white.

INFORMATION

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KEY LIGHTING

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Film Noir mostly uses hard lights. The hardness or softness of the light is created by the type of shadows that it makes. Hard light leaves sharp edged shadows, this is created by a single point source of the light with the ray running more less from a single point in space.

Bare Halogen Bulb is a soft lights leave that is fuzzy shadows and are created by a larger area of light where the light rays is scattered in different directions.

USE OF NOIR

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• Noir film became famous through a series of crime dramas in the 1940s and 1950s. It’s a filmic style that uses shadows and high black and white contrast to convey a dramatic and suspenseful tone throughout the film.

NOIR FILM FAMOUS

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• The trick to this look is to keep the lighting clean and crisp and at the same time keeping the whites intense and focus on what you want the viewers to see. Using techniques like unique camera angles, silhouettes. smoke, and lighting in the eyes can dramatically increase the effectiveness of the Noir Style that you are trying to achieve.

TRICK USING LIGHTING

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The first thing that you need to do to is introduce the light to the set.

Next you want to focus the light on the subject in to order to show the viewer what you want to emphasize. Use the barn doors on the light, this will narrow the light on your subject and only bring out what you want the viewer to see.

INTRODUCING THE NOIR LIGHT

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To achieve the film Noir Lighting style you must remember to use the dark shadows and crisp and white.

Film Noir it known for this lighting style that shows the character’s personality by the way the are lit, You can if you place the light at the lower angle you give the characters a menacing look. Or if we place the light at a higher angle behind the subject we can achieve a mysterious silhouette.

HOW TO ACHIEVE NOIR LIGHTING

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Remember to try to use the many film Noir technique that were mentioned earlier like smoke and focused lighting on the eyes. To successfully light the either you can use the barn doors on the light, or cut a piece of the paper or cardboard. This is called a cookies

IMPORTANT INFORMATION