Landscape film noir photos

Here are few more pictures I took, which i didn't use in my timeline nor my poster.

This is more Sin City style photo as its not just Black & White but it also has strong red lipstick color and a cigarette being lit up.

A lonely woman sitting by the table.

It seems in this picture as if she was looking at someone.

She looks terrified.

Here she's screaming, but the mystery is... Is this really happening or is that just her mind playing tricks on her?

 She looks deeply into the darkness as if she was expecting something or someone come out of there.

 And here it is in color.

Editing of my poster.

The original photo I started with and the edited bits.

I opened up  the picture in Photoshop. The first thing I always do before editing the picture is change the brightness and the contrast of it. So I went on Image and Brightness/Contrast. When I pressed the a little window showed up. I changed the settings and came up with the 2nd photo.

 The next thing I did was to go on Image and press Vibrance where a a little window showed up with settings. I changed it till the point I was happy with my picture and went onto the next step. 

My next step. I go in Image once again, this time scroll down to the Black & White section and my image looked like in the image four (second line, first picture). The window would showed up, then i would change the settings and it would look like the second picture in line two. 

I only changed the settings in the first two lines since mostly those colors are dominating in the photo. Next one easy step to make the picture brighter and cleared i used the Dodge Tool and the 1871 size square brush. Three strokes from top to bottom and it looks perfect!  

To finish off the poster I cropped the image and added title and tagline.The very last thing I had to add was the 18 + rating. That's all.

This is actually the technique I used to edit all my Film Noir photos. I found editing the pictures really useful for my photography skills as I learned few tricks using Photoshop I didn't knew before and finding my own way to make the pictures look the way they're meant to look makes me feel more accomplished. As a photographer, I also now have an additional perspective in taking photographs, now knowing the additional effects I can apply later.

Timeline

This is the timeline of my final pictures.

My Film Noir Poster

This is my film noir final poster. The title says "The silent secrets of Mary Jane" and the tagline says " Tormented by an unknown fear, haunted by unknown enemy" I myself don't know what would the storyline of the film would be, but the main part its obvious, Mary Jane has silent secrets. Silent because she does not tell anyone or maybe because its just in her head.

Comparison of Double Indemnity & Sin City

The are many differences between Sin City and Double Indemnity. One and I think most powerful difference is how women are treated in both movies. Sin City sees women as an sexual object, they are not respected, beaten by men and violent. In Double Indemnity they're dominating and seductive. They have power over the men. There are some characteristics in Sin City which have colors like red lipstick/dress/sky, blonde hair, yellow character. Whereas Double Indemnity is only in black and white.
Also the killing scenes are not graphically depicted, the killings are more subtle and implied, whereas in Sin City, brutal scenes of gore and violence are common place, due to it's comic book nature.

Double Indemnity

Black and white film noir movie, starts with a dark and mysterious figure.

The shadow of the hat is covering the mans face. He walks into the dark room where only moonlight is softly brightening up the figure. The mans turns on the lamp, he sat in the chair and lit the cigarette as he recorded the story of his crime. He killed for money and a women - didn't get either. 

But I'm not here to write the whole story of Double Indemnity. The point of this is to describe the the key objectives of film noir that Double Indemnity has. As film noir is usually know to be a Hollywood crime dramas it means it obviously will involve killing. Also a very important point in the film is how powerful the women are. As soon as the beautiful women walks into the room you can tell her domination and power over the man, as he became polite and couldn't stop smiling. He did not dare to look away as she was speaking. The woman is seductive and flirty but also sly. Whereas the man, as soon as he left the door he was thinking about her and every little detail of her like for example: her perfume, ring. They both knew it wasn't the end of them. It was just a beginning. They planned a crime together to kill the woman's husband and at the same time get accident insurance on him to have the money. Seems like a perfect crime. They missed out few details the the insurance

company might consider. It became hard for them to contact each other as they didn't want to get caught. The last night of them ever seeing each other ended up with death. The man came over to his beloved's house. She was proudly sitting on the arm chair, smoking a cigarette. The only thing the man didn't know was that she hid a gun under a cushion of her hair. When he was shutting the windows she shot him in his shoulder, but she didn't not have courage to shoot again. The man slowly walked over to her and grabbed a gun from her hand he said "Goodbye" to her and killed her. That's when he made his way to the office to record the story. As he was leaving, he fell by the door and lit the last cigarette.