Testing looks of film noir in pictures

Unfortunately I wasn't able to edit the pictures when we did this task, because Photoshop wasn't working at the time. So Sam (http://asmediastudiessamshepherd2013.blogspot.co.uk/) who I worked in a group with said I could use the pictures that he edited from his blog. I can only tell you how the pictures were edited from Sam's blog so I'm going to put it into my own words and explain how I think it was done.

 We looked at a lot of the conventions of film noir and how they used guns, cigarettes, red lipstick and the relationship between the fem fetal and the protagonist. We thought these would reflect best in the pictures. We also looked a lot of costume and what would look best for the pictures and it also reflected on what costumes we might use for our OTS. We looked a lot at long dresses and jackets that would fit the 1920's feel. Jackets were an important factor because we thought that on the women it could show the importance of a character and the relationship of two characters shown in the 4th picture.

A lot of the pictures are in black and white which is one the conventions of old film noir. Two of our pictures are black and white but also have a grain to them. The reason this was used was to make the pictures have an old feel to them, or taken on an old camera. The picture that has a red tone to it creates a different atmosphere. This could be used in more of a neo noir film but also have the conventions of a film noir, being the cigarettes and a zippo. The red tone gives the idea of blood and murder which is also a convention of film noir.