BISHBASHBOSHSTART FREEFilm Noir
Signature style in the BishBashBosh style library. Black and white: inky blacks, silvery highlights, little in between.
- Camera
- Low and high angles, Dutch tilts, deep focus; long tracking shots through night streets
- Lens
- Wide 25mm–35mm spherical for deep focus and stretched close-ups; 50mm for faces
- Film stock
- Black-and-white 35mm, visible silver grain, a slightly worn release print
- Lighting
- Low-key: one hard key, deep shadows, venetian-blind bars, practical lamps, backlit fog and rain
- Colour
- Black and white: inky blacks, silvery highlights, little in between
5 named looks in Film Noir
Venetian blinds
- Camera
- Slightly high angles into small rooms, deep focus on a 35mm lens
- Lighting
- Street light through venetian blinds: hard bars across faces and walls, smoke hanging in the light
- Colour
- Black and white: barred light, inky shadows
Wet streets
- Camera
- Low Dutch angles on a wide lens, figures caught in doorways
- Lighting
- One light from a window or doorway, long shadows up the walls, wet cobbles gleaming
- Colour
- Black and white: gleaming wet blacks, a single pool of light
Fog
- Camera
- Wide shots from slightly below, figures standing as silhouettes
- Lighting
- A searchlight blazing through fog straight at the lens
- Colour
- Black and white: glowing grey fog, figures cut out in black
City at night
- Camera
- Waist-high on the kerb, a wide lens, deep focus through the crowd
- Lighting
- The city's own light: marquees, neon signs and headlights
- Colour
- Black and white: blazing signs, glistening blacks
Low angle
- Camera
- From knee height on a very wide lens, the street and buildings rearing up and bending at the edges
- Lens
- A very wide 18mm–25mm, distorting at the edges
- Lighting
- One bare street lamp overhead, hard and high, long shadows
- Colour
- Black and white: hard highlights, deep blacks
USE THIS LOOK ON EVERY SHOT.
START FREE · 400 CREDITS, NO CARDPick Film Noir in BishBashBosh's style guide and it's written into your master prompt, so every shot in the film carries it, on whichever video model you shoot with.
