The document discusses the importance of lighting in movie trailers for setting mood. It notes that trailers typically use brighter lighting for happy scenes and darker lighting for sad or intense scenes. It analyzes the lighting used in the trailers for the movies "Me and Earl and the Dying Girl" and "If I Stay" as examples that convey different emotions through lighting. The document concludes that using varying lighting, from bright to dark, can help make a trailer more authentic and impactful in portraying different moods.

1. LIGHTING

2. WHY SHOULD WE CONSIDER
LIGHTING IN A TRAILER?
• A trailer is used to entice audiences and create a feeling
with an audience, so that they will come and see the
film that is being promoted.
• The lighting in a trailer is very important as it sets a
mood or tone and reflects the action that it covers.
• Most of the time the lighting in a trailer is bright when
there is a happy moment and darker or with more
shadows when it is a sad or intense moment, however
this can differ.
• This subtle change in lighting can really extenuate
different moods to the audience, therefore I will
endeavour to use different lighting for different scenes,
to reflect the emotions in the trailer,

3. EXAMPLE 1
ME AND EARL AND THE DYING GIRL
• This film is really close to my film with the storyline
and the mood I want to portray therefore looking at
the lighting in this trailer has helped me to see what
I could use in mine.
• The dark lighting reflects a sombre or sometimes
awkward mood so we as an audience also feel
sombre and awkward.
• The shadow when Rachel is by the stairs makes her
seem mysterious as we don’t really know much
about her at the moment.
• However the scene where Rachel is smiling is light
with a bright background that seems a bit clinical
but still reflects a happy mood.

4. EXAMPLE 2-
IF I STAY
• This film is a little like mine in the fact that it is about
an incident that changes someone’s life therefore it
would have the same emotions as my trailer.
• The lighting in this trailer seems to be opposite to
generic lighting in trailers.
• The sad scenes in this trailer have bright lights, which
could reflect the ‘light at the end of the tunnel’ or the
clinical lights I mentioned with Me and Earl and the
Dying Girl.
• The happy scenes seem to have a dark tone, not
because they are emotional but probably because of
the cosy atmosphere they are trying to present.

5. CONCLUSION
• In conclusion, in my trailer I would like to use brighter scenes for happier moments
and darker scenes for deeper, more emotional moments.
• However, in both of the examples, the use of clinical bright lights is effective in
showing the struggle to hang on to life throughout the trailers.
• I will try my best to make sure I include different lightings in my trailer to make it as
authentic as possible and I think it will make my trailer look a lot better than if I only
used one shade of lighting.