Lighting effects

1. Lighting Effects
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Chiaroscuro has been used here to
connote a tense, negative and
powerful atmosphere around the
character standing in the image. It
also creates depth in this particular
scene. When looking at the light
behind the character and how it
makes his shadow look enormous, we
as the audience denote that this
character is dangerous.
In ‘Sin City’ low key lighting has been
used to create dramatic effects and it
is mostly associated with horror films
or film noir. The use of it in ‘Sin city’ is
that it creates suspense , eeriness
and even seclusion at most part. The
director chose not to use low-key
lighting for everything e.g. blood,
objects and symbols had their natural
colour. This could have been done to
add to the dramatic effect in a fight
scene or to focus our attention to an
object/subject.
Some movies use high key-lighting,
this is used to make the scene appear
very bright and soft. ‘The Wizard of
Oz’ (1939) used high key-lighting, this
scene looks unrealistic as we don’t
have light this bright in real life. This
denotes that this movie is also
unrealistic and so making us think
that it can be a fantasy. Comparing
this to low key-lighting it is the
opposite and doesn’t add a dramatic
effect.