Emily's practise shadows

Practice shadows/low key lighting by Emily Hardy

These are examples of shadows from films with the film noir genre:

This is my attempt at casting shadows:

When you hold the light down  it makes the shadow bigger making the person seem more intimidating.

When you hold the light up it makes the shadow smaller.

Practicing shadows is important as the are a key feature of film noir. We will have to included shadows to follow the codes and conventions of the genre. It will be quite difficult to create shadows on location I think because it won't be as easy to create complete darkness and then have a light that we can move around to create effective shadows. The shadows create meaning, there is someone there but it is left up to the viewers imaginations to decide who that person is and what they are going to do which creates suspense in the film. 

From Emily's work i have learnt about shadow and its use as a convention in film noir, from this information we will use shadow in our own film noir title sequence, Emily has given a detailed look into creating shadows, so when we film she will be able to create these affectively, and she has helped the group by sharing this information, as i now know how to do this also.