LIGHTING AND COLOUR
Lighting is important when creating a film because it conveys the mood and atmosphere. It can be used to guide the audience attention to a particular object,
emotion, person or gesture. Lighting creates more meaning than we think.
Angle lighting:
Under lighting: the lights comes below the person. This tends to have a distrusting affect on the character for example this picture represent the character as a evil person and we can tell because of the lighting.
Top lighting: the lighting comes above highlights the persons features which creates a glamour look.
Or it is used to remove shadows produced by the key lighting. It can also create the illusion of a bright, sunny day. For example the lighting is created for the audience to focus mainly on the character who died.
Colour - colour in the scene have different connotation to them and can give different interpretation of scene.
Angle lighting:
Under lighting: the lights comes below the person. This tends to have a distrusting affect on the character for example this picture represent the character as a evil person and we can tell because of the lighting.
Top lighting: the lighting comes above highlights the persons features which creates a glamour look.
Or it is used to remove shadows produced by the key lighting. It can also create the illusion of a bright, sunny day. For example the lighting is created for the audience to focus mainly on the character who died.
Back lighting: it come behind and creates fear or disgust from the character. It is mainly made for horror movies because the lighting create a shadow which makes the character look mysterious, it can also sense a impending doom. For example this image give the audience an idea that the character is evil.
Types of lightings
Low key- the lighting is dark with small areas of the light, which also creates a shadow. Low key is mainly popular in action films and crime films,
High- key- lighting appears more natural and realistic to our eyes. high key is horror films and sci-fi.
In this scene the colour red was represented is danger, so i knew there will be danger, blood and bad intension.The lighting made it look very scary and mysterious, because there was a lot of shadow. There was a lot of low key lighting. The lighting also bought up tension. The mood created a mysterious and made it look like a stalking obsession type of murder.
Suweda, good post where you present your work very clearly, and discuss the impact of lighting well to a scene. You also provide some good examples but you should look to provide some analysis here.
ReplyDeleteTo improve;
-can you provide examples for low and high key lighting?
-in your analysis of 'The Moon and the Gutter', can you be more specific on the impact that the use of lighting and colour has on the audience?