M.E.S - Lighting - Miss H

Lighting

 Filmmaking is all about capturing light. A bright light draws the viewer’s eye. A scene can be lit by available light (the sun, moon or existing light sources) or using powerful and expensive artificial light. The way a scene is lit influences how the audience will react emotionally to your movie.

The angle and direction of light gives your audience clues about where and what time of day the scene is taking place. Painters have long understood that the quality of light in a scene can hide or reveal things and influences the viewer's reaction.

In feature films the lighting is a high priority because how well the movie is lit influences how the audience perceives the production values of the movie and therefore the quality of the movie.

 

Under lighting:  this lighting is usually used in horror films where the lighting is a shown from the bottom to give a terrifying effect.

 

Top lighting:  this lighting angel comes from above to give the character of the film a glamorous look.

Back lighting: If little or no light is used, silhouettes are created. Light source is behind the person.

 

 

Low-key lighting is a style of lighting for photography, film or television. It is a necessary element in creating a chiaroscuro effect. Traditional photographic lighting, three-point lighting uses a key light, a fill light, and a back light for illumination. Low-key lighting often uses only one key light, optionally controlled with a fill light or a simple reflector.

High-key lighting is a style of lighting for film, television, or photography that aims to reduce the lighting ratio present in the scene. This was originally done partly for technological reasons, since early film and television did not deal well with high contrast ratios, but now is used to suggest an upbeat mood. It is often used in sitcoms and comedies. High-key lighting is usually quite homogeneous and free from dark shadows.

Natural key lighting: when no lighting has been added, it is what you expect to see

 

High key lighting?

1) Romance films

2) Comedy films

3) Fantasy films

Low key lighting?

1) Horror

2) Thriller

3) Action

 

Low key lighting examples

 

 

 

 

 

Low-key lighting and audience response

Low key lighting will create suspense amongst the audience, because it’s a unusual fact that the audience can’t see every detail that is going on and that you could only see the character as the only focus point, which will make the audience wonder what will happen. Also the location that the character is in will look weird which will create a question mark in the audience head aswell as a shiver in what will happen.

Low-key lighting and atmosphere created

Our first scene that we will take will bat at the train station, where the antagonist will be watching the protagonist, then the same sort of scene will be going on towards the protagonists house, then the final scene will be at the protagonists house

We have two characters the antagonist which is Bryan, and the protagonist which is Tanya. Low – key lighting will indicate that something bad will happen.

The moon and the gutter

In this trailer/film very low-key lighting was used, which created tension as for you could not see everywhere of the scene, which indicated that something bad could happen any moment, which created a thriller in the atmosphere. But the key lighting for me was the red used in the sky which linked into the guys red shoes and at the end which reflected the blood to see the moon in the same form, which shows that the guy in the red shoes was the killer.