Ideas for Film Noir

From looking at numerous films form the Film Noir genre, I have an understanding of what the criteria is asking from me and also I enjoyed the films I watched which will help me as I am more interested in it.

 I have decided I really like the smoke effect that I've looked at within Film Noir pictures. Here are a few examples of what I am hoping to achieve or something near. The picture above I love the way she looks like shes more of the dominating person, blowing the smoke at his face and is in more light than him. 

 This is another dominating picture, she looks like a very strong character, and has the items of a Film Noir genre, money, cigarettes, alcohol. 

 I love this effect of using two pictures and layering one over the other. I love how dark the background picture is then the women being lighter and in the foreground almost looking down on you. 

 These two photos are really interesting, I like the blind light that's hitting their faces. I think this is another idea I could develop and explore.

 These three photos are more resent, and modern. Although I love the old fashioned look, I feel my photos will come out more like these in terms of the clothes worn and the environment.

I really like the closeness and close ups of the subjects within this genre and the dark mood that it brings. The smoke of the cigarettes give the picture a dominated feel.

Things I'm hoping to achieve:

• Using smoke for a dominating look.
• B&W Film maybe> for my photographs not timeline.
• Try different effects with blinds 
• Timeline photographs - edit on photoshop to give them a dark and more omnious look > use quotes from Sin City? 

For my Poster, I think I want to make my photos more cartoon like, using photoshop. Also i will use just a little colour on specific parts of the photos to give it a more eye catching look. I might like to use layers to create depth in the poster, overlaping pictures to give impact. 

For my timeline, I intend to use just black and white pictures and use quotes and smoke effects on them. I want them to look very formal and staged. Although i dont know how the photos like turn out, or how i want them to be set up, once ive started my shoot, i think it will just fall into place.