Further lighting research

For the opening scene we wanted to create a lighting contrast. We chose very bright lights at around 400  watts. Then we added smaller lights to create alternate light sources. This was done as we know Film noir is known for its high contrast through dramatic shadows and bright lights. We had to make sure the black and white colours were strong, we checked to see if the black was pure pitch black and the white was a pure snow white colour. Initially we found some grey and had to adjust the aperture settings on the camera and increase the intensity of the hardest light source.