Film Noir - Plan

Photoshoot plan

• Black and white photographs
• High contrast scenes
• Use of street lamps - it is best to do the shoot in late afternoon/early evening
• If the shoot will be done with bright daylight, the photos can be made darker in Photoshop
• Photos shot in front of a cafe/restaurant - two characters (a man, dressed in suit, hat and long coat, and a woman - femme fatale) sitting by a table, smoking cigarettes
• Capture smoke on shots
• Possible use of flash light on high power settings, fired straight on models in order to get high contrast and dark shadows

Poster plan

• Poster will be made as a collage of color photographs of characters and/or streets, with movie's title written over them
• Photos can be adjusted in Photoshop to give them slightly cartoon-like look
• One of the characters holding a gun in his hand and a cigarette in the other or in his mouth
• Female character can be holding a long glass pipe with a cigarette on its end and smoke coming from it
• These two characters should be standing close to each other, as it can suggest romance
• Background of the poster should be black or in an other dark, plain color
• The poster, besides a photo of two main characters, can also contain small size photos used in the timeline

Timeline plan

• Smooth, slow transitions between shots
• Close-ups of photographs (first the whole photograph is shown, then the view zooms in and moves to key elements of the shot)
• 40's style music (slow jazz or rock and roll) as background of the timeline
• Quotes from classic film noir movies or sentences in film noir style as a vocal voice-over (e.g. short conversation of female and male characters)