{"id":5845,"date":"2017-06-19T16:34:19","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T15:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/?p=5845"},"modified":"2017-06-19T16:34:19","modified_gmt":"2017-06-19T15:34:19","slug":"film-noir-in-a-small-studio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/?p=5845","title":{"rendered":"Film Noir in a small studio"},"content":{"rendered":"

How do you sum up the film noir style? For me words like dark, moody and sinister would be fitting but there\u2019s a lot more to it then that. There\u2019s the style both in lighting and subject matter to consider too.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I always think of Film Noir as being high contrast, black and white scenes lit with hard light resulting in strong shadows. Rightly or not I also think 50\u2019s style crime drama and that\u2019s what I set out to produce in my small home studio.
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The trick here was to set my main light low and hard (No softboxes or umbrellas) That gave great shadows from the Venetian blinds and the up light gave a sense of menace, as well as the subtle feeling our hero was on a higher floor looking down.<\/p>\n

The rest was down to Styling. So asking Brian (the model) to have a bit of stubble, giving him a bottle of whiskey (or cold tea in this case) and of course, having him hold a vintage kids cap gun all helped set the scene and tell the story.<\/p>\n