{
 "slug": "black-and-white-noir",
 "name": "Black and white noir",
 "category": "texture",
 "group": "Monochrome",
 "media": [
  "image",
  "video"
 ],
 "checked": "2026-10-13",
 "effect": "Hard contrast and deep shadow: drama, timelessness, mystery.",
 "use_when": "Fashion, premium editorial, crime and mood pieces.",
 "phrase": "black and white, hard contrast, deep black shadows and bright edges, light through blinds",
 "pitfalls": [],
 "per_model": [
  {
   "model": "nano-banana-pro",
   "phrase": "Render the image in high-contrast black and white, reminiscent of classic film noir photography with deep blacks and stark whites.",
   "evidence": "unverified",
   "checked": "2025-12-08"
  }
 ],
 "external_refs": [
  {
   "site": "shotdeck",
   "url": "https://shotdeck.com/",
   "what": "real film frames tagged by colour, lighting, time of day and composition (paid, link only)"
  },
  {
   "site": "flim",
   "url": "https://flim.ai/",
   "what": "film, ad and music-video stills to search by text or image (free tier, link only)"
  }
 ],
 "licensed": [],
 "site_names": [],
 "related": [
  "low-key-light",
  "silhouette"
 ],
 "rights": "own-work",
 "evidence": "film-craft",
 "source": {
  "url": null,
  "note": "The first Director Chair spec, own words"
 },
 "body": "",
 "shown_with": null,
 "url": "https://directorchair.ai/texture/black-and-white-noir",
 "markdown": "https://directorchair.ai/texture/black-and-white-noir.md",
 "prompts": {
  "nano-banana-pro": "Render the image in high-contrast black and white, reminiscent of classic film noir photography with deep blacks and stark whites. [your subject] in [your setting].",
  "nano-banana-2": "Render the image in high-contrast black and white, reminiscent of classic film noir photography with deep blacks and stark whites. [your subject] in [your setting].",
  "gpt-image": "A photograph of [your subject] in [your setting].\nDetails: black and white, hard contrast, deep black shadows and bright edges, light through blinds\nExclusions: no extra text, no watermark, no logo.",
  "seedream-5": "Black and white, hard contrast, deep black shadows and bright edges, light through blinds. [your subject] in [your setting].",
  "seedance-2.5": "Global look: black and white, hard contrast, deep black shadows and bright edges, light through blinds\nScene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nShot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot",
  "seedance-2.0": "Global look: black and white, hard contrast, deep black shadows and bright edges, light through blinds\nScene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nShot 1: one continuous shot",
  "kling-3": "[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. Black and white, hard contrast, deep black shadows and bright edges, light through blinds.",
  "veo-3.1": "[your subject] in [your setting]. Framing and subject stay as in the start image. Black and white, hard contrast, deep black shadows and bright edges, light through blinds."
 },
 "licence": {
  "code": "MIT",
  "text": "CC BY 4.0",
  "third_party": "Clips and card texts inside a \"licensed\" block belong to their makers and are shown with permission and credit."
 }
}