2. The lighting in this image bases
itself with light colours, and
mainly blue, although blue can
be a happy and fresh
representative colour, it is also
the colour with depression,
and “feeling down”. This man
clearly is mentally unstable and
could well be facing depression
amongst other problems, this
image seems to be one of
which that has caught him out,
he is off guard, and typically
that is when we show our true
colours and are not able to
cover up what we are feeling.
His eyes are intensely blue, it
could suggest at heart he is
innocent, helping us
sympathise for him and his
illness.
His hand is up and covering his face, this is
creating a darker shade of blue to go over his
eyes mostly, as I’ve mentioned before, the eyes
are seen as the door to our soul, possibly this
character is trying to block us from seeing his soul
and wants to keep it covered as there Is
something he wants to hide. It also adds to idea
of this man being depressed, particularly as this
shade of dark blue Is very close to his head, and
this would be where all his problems develop and
take place.

3. This image is based outside, and a light
is being shone onto this girls face
(Dakota), so the only sense of lighting is
coming from an artificial source, and a
possibility of ambient lighting from the
moonlight possibly. This image is ironic,
as Robert De Niro is shining a light into
this little girls face, as if he is
questioning her, and at the beginning of
the film he has as he believes she is
getting up to no good, however the
light of “inspection” should be shone
into his face as he is committing the
crimes and getting away with them. The
bright and glowing light is shining
mainly on the little girl, representing
her innocence and bravery throughout
the film and dealing with a mentally
unstable father, so it represents the
goodness in her.
There is hardly any of this bright light
being shone onto De Niro,
foreshadowing to the audience that
he is in fact the bad guy, and does
typically have an evil side to his
personality. The shadows appear to be
eating him, slowly they seem to be
coming up from behind, in comparison
to Dakota who is completely in the
light.

4. Jigsaw here has a bright light coming
from behind him which seems to be
artificial, like its coming from a bright
lamp. I think that as this light is
coming from behind him suggests
that this character has turnt his back
on “goodness” and anything in light
that has light in it, which typically
involves happiness. What is more
noticeable is the black shadow on
Jigsaw’s right side, although there is
more of the bright light beside him,
the black shadow seems as if it is
progressively moving, and getting rid
of the innocence and purity that is
behind Jigsaw, this links to the
narrative as that is what Jigsaw does
with his games, destroying peoples
souls, much like this black shadow
appears to be doing.
The bright light is touching the back of
the puppets hair at the ends, backing
up the idea I created of Jigsaw turning
his back on the light, the darkness of
Jigsaw’s hair is getting rid of any light
that is trying to touch him.