Planning - Colour

From the outset of planning our film noir short, my group and I had decided that experimenting with certain traditional aspects and conventions of film noir—in other words, creating a neo-noir—would be more challenging and rewarding than creating a simple pastiche of classic noir; we subsequently came to a conclusion regarding time setting, deciding on approximate time period of the 1990s.
 
We also discussed experimenting with colour in post-production, to reflect the more contemporary time setting: we did not want our short to simply be black-and-white. We had discussed the possibility of altering our film footage in various ways and wanted to see whether desaturating images and increasing contrast would give an atmospheric look. Here are three stock images similar to locations that we intend to shoot in, comparing the unaltered image with a desaturated, high-contrast version. 
 
We like the effect produced by this, and think we will eventually use it in our short.