Lighting

One limitation that we have is that, we don’t have access to industry standard professional lighting equipment. This is unfortunate because it is harder to make our visions become reality. However, there are things we can do to improve the quality. These are:


Use natural light – such as sunlight, in the shadows, in the mist, through rain.


Use cheap and cheerful artificial light – use of candles, firelight, torches, car headlights, security lights, neon lights and street lighting


Create colour filters – shine light through coloured liquids, vases and ornaments.


Position the light source for effect – light from above, below or in obscured way which creates different kinds of atmosphere.

“Once you have explored what light sources can provide, experiment with the interaction of with the objects in your frame.” Michael Massey (2004)

The mise en scene is all about atmosphere and continuity. This means that we have to carefully choose costume, lighting, location and props. So if the lighting goes wrong then the performance will be affected drastically.

So our project we will be using low key lighting. We will accomplish this by using natural lighting during the park scene and then using table lamps during the desk sequence.

Here is an example of low key lighting. It is the murder scene taken from Disturbia (2007)

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