Evaluation
My assignment was to create a Game/DVD Cover and Poster in
the style of Film Noir. Film noir is typically old, black and white video where
it focuses on shadows and doesn’t show any blood or gore. The time period of
film noir is in the 1950’s where typically “gangster” type people would
feature. The types of clothing is trench coats, suits and fedoras for males and
long dresses for females. The history of film noir goes back to 1946 by Nino
Frank who was a French Film Critic.
My research was lengthy as I spent a lengthy period browsing
the internet for inspiring images, I found a couple of men stood with something
covering their eyes. Later that evening after discovering the image, I drove
through Bulwell at the evening and discovered the type of Film Noir shadows I
was looking for. That gave me the inspiration for the name “Grand Theft
Bulwell” because of inspiration found from the franchise ‘Grand Theft Auto’
(GTA). I then created a Grand Theft Auto style poster for my product utilising
all 4 photos from their individual shoots. After finding it not “Film Noir”
enough, I created a second one using this as an Extension/Extra Work. The
inspiration of the men with their face covered made me feel fear so it fitted
well with the “Grand Theft” aspect of the game and fitted Bulwell’s reputation.
Film Noir has a typical lighting style, this is found to be
a “3-Light Technique”. This technique consists of using three low-key lights. A
key light – This is the light used to create a background light, this can be
used with a cookie which would create a blind effect behind the object/study.
Next is the fill light to fill any light which is not found when the key light
is on. After this comes the back light which add a light above the object/study
and allows it to stand out from the wall/background.
My original idea was to create a Grand Theft Auto style game
case and poster. However, after self-realisation and words with Faye. It was
agreed that it wasn’t Film Noir enough. Therefore I created a second case and
several variations of it, these can be found on a contact sheet. I took a
selection of photographs at home which was a picture of chavs in Bulwell and a
car. Unfortunately, due to the Bulwell chavs noticing me taking pictures I only
got one picture before I had to dash.. the next images were the ones I took in
college. These were of Dom wearing a hoodie, these can be found on
ContactSheet001 and the next were off the Council Building in Nottingham, which
can be found on ContactSheet002.
When taking the images we had to bring into account the room
is a sound booth so people may be using it however fortunately for us nobody
used it while we were. Following this we needed a hoodie which was a prop as well
as a light source which we used a phone torch.
The test shots influenced my final images as I used the best
quality image that showed the most shadow and lighting fitting for Film Noir. Following
this I adjusted the levels and curves of my image to detail and increase
shadows. The levels of adjusting each item is found below:
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