The trial and error shot

Hmmm so what do you think my friend is doing in this shot?

Well it's not very clear in the first shot, but you now get the idea that he was smoking.See this is what i call the trial and error shot of my teaser. it took a while to figure out what i could do to make the smoke more Visible.

Here is the shot about a few seconds later but it is just as bad as the last shot. see the problem isn't really to do with the lighting but the background. This is a new thing i learned about making a black and white production. now om conscious
of the fact that things you want to stand out in a black and white film - you must have that thing parallel to what is around that object.As you can see in the next shot below.

The smoke is more visable here. Well its not all that visable here but when the film is in action you can defiantly see it, and as a bonus i got this awesome light glare effect because this was filmed in night. Not only that but my friends face is consealed in the darkeness which makes him anonymous,like the other actors in the teaser. Now i keep in mind what blackground i'm at.

All the images here is a scene taken from my teaser.The whole shot is about 3 minutes long.This might take a while to edit down.