Post 11: Advanced Production Skills Workshop 1

Advanced Production Skills Workshop 1

In our first workshop of lighting we talked about why lighting is one of the most important aspects of film and how lighting itself can completely set the mood for the scene and the characters within the scene.

In our first lighting workshop the task was to watch a few short films and look at film Noir. The way in which we explored film Noir was through Black Film. Film Noir was the 1940-1950 Hollywood black and white era which combined both white light with cast and attached shadow to create different moods and settings. It is important to remember that film Noir is not a genre, it is a style. Film Noir emphasized feeling and emotion as well as sexual references as we could see from the short film “Double Indemnity (Film Noir)” as the lighting in this film tells the story.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_noir

This link backs up my opinion of film Noir as many people have accumulated different meaning of the word and have given it different definitions.

the picture to the right is a snap shot taken from the film Double Indemnity and shows how the use of shadow around the women and lights directly on and behind the women create a (halo) of light which could be portrayed as innocence or the complete opposite which it was in this case as she tries to seduce another character.

The clip below is the film "Double Indemnity which was the first Black and white film we watched as part of the light skills workshop.