Practising making shadows for the Film Noir genre

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.

Praticing shadows is importany as the are a key feature of film noir. We will have to included shadows to follow the codes and convetions of the genre. It will be quite difficult to create shdows on location I thin because it won't be as easy to create completedarkness 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.