Lighting use ideas

1. IdeasFor Use Of Lighting
The way in which a setting is lit has the ability to change the mood and perception of a
scene. Inhorror lighting can be used to create dark and eerie atmospheres, sometimes
audiences can tell if something sinister is about tohappen due to the lighting.
Lighting can foreshadow forthcoming events for example in the middle of the day a
setting may be lit via natural lighting. There is nothing menacing about this and the
audience are not expecting anything frightening, as chance are it is just an establishing
shot. However at night the same scenery can being very frightening due toshadows
cast by light, it can also be used to hide certain parts of the frame, creating mystery.
This will put the audience onedge as conventionally murders take place at night in
horror films. There are other ways in which lighting can be used, for example
sometimes backlighting features to create a silhouette around a character, so the
audience can see them, butit not details are shown and the identity of the character
can notbe established by the audience. Profile lighting can be used to hide one side of a
character's face, this is used to symbolise that that character has two sides to their
personality, or that they have something to hide.
In our trailer we plan to take the lighting of our shots seriously and carefully plan how
each scene will be lit as it can have a huge impact on not only the mood that is
portrayed by also how professional the finished product it. This is why we feel that the
existing ceiling lights in many of the indoor shooting locations won't be sufficient and
we have chosen to purchase 2 softboxes. This will enable us to have white light that
doesn't cast a shadow to fill a scene from whatever angle we desire. We will also use a
reflector to give the effect of the 3 point lighting design used in many professional film
pieces.
The setting in which the killings will happen we aim to give the effect that it looks like a
lab, therefore for the majority of shotsin this setting we will be using both softboxes
and a reflector to fill the space available with soft light. There will be some scenes that
are shot outside, for example some of the equilibrium shots and one of the scene where
the butcher is chasing the teens, as these are outside, we are unable to use anything
but natural lighting, so we will chose to do these shits when we feel the lighting is as we
desire. For any close up shots outside we can use a reflector to slightly increase the
intensity of light on the characters face. One of the scenes we will shoot outside we will
chose to do in the evening, just after the sun has set, therefore the natural light will not
be intense but it will still be existent meaning the character and props will be lit.
One of the the shots that will be shot inside, is a back lit shot of the butcher smoking a
cigar, now as this is a close up shot we don'twant to give any details away about his
identity. Therefore this close up shotwill also be a profile shot, and on the opposing

2. side of the character's head will be a softbox, the softbox will be the only light in the
room and will be very close to the character's head, therefore the background of the
frame will only be filled by the soft box, meaning it will just appear to be white.
Creating a very harsh silhouette around the head of the butcher. Thi will be a difficult
shot to achieve, however if successful, will be very effective.
Any of the close up shotsof the victims before execution will be dimly lit, potentially
with one softbox facing the opposite direction so the light fills the room, and the
lighting onthe face is very subtle, this is conventional and makes the scene seem more
sinister, as darkness has connotations of evil,