Lighting

Lighting

Lighting is an integral part of anything to do with media, the maniupulation of lighting means that you are able to freely change what you want to portray on screen, to how you want the audience to interpret and react to what you're showing. For example, think about all the horror movies you've seen and all the dark scenes in which all the horror happens. Change all the lighting to make it all light and bright, and what do you get as an end result? Something which completely ruins the atmospheare and fails to scare you, such is the importance of lighting.

Through the use of lighting can allow a scene to transform into something from this.

 To this.

As you can see in the orginal picture, the only and primary source of light are the lightbulbds overhead the character, this gives the whole scene a very monotone and 'boring' look as the colours on the wall look washed out and dry. By using stand lights and bouncing the light off the walls to give it a lesser intensity, it adds a more deeper light, for example if the person was to directly point the light at the subject, it could give a shiny outline ruining the atmospheare. Also the use of candles at the background helps to add little more for the audience to look at instead of it just being dark and dull.

Evaluations:
(+) Lighting is an integral part of the video, it can make or break some scenes.
(-) Although it is hard to manipulate, lighting on a low budget mostly comes down to the weather outside.
(+) Using lighting to contrast some colours helps to increase the intensity in some scenes.