After researching different types of lighting used in films I have made note of what I feel are the most effective and tried to recreate my own examples of these kinds of lighting.
High & Low Key Combination
I love this kind of lighting. In this shot above it makes the character in the door frame seem really intimidating and cool.
The fact you can't fully see his facial features and outfit emphasizes his menacing look. The director might be contrasting the external world of bright nature with the confining, dark, interior world of civilisation (1), which I feel is a really clever connotation and would be a cool idea to involve in my film.
The obvious connotations of this lighting mean I will likely use this is my film.
Harsh Light
What I really like about this lighting is how it looks simple, but is always quite disturbing to look at. The sudden, dark shadows can create quite an eerie undertone and creating something like that with certain charatcter in my short film would be amazing.The lighting is also relavitly easy to create, and so can be replicated in more difficult, confined places, meaning it will be a lot easier to involve in my film and also possible to so with the equipment avaliable to me.
High vs Low Contrast
Experimenting with contrast will be really cool in my film as it can be a large part in continuity editing where it isn't noticed but has a profound effect.
High contrast can create quite an upbeat tone with colours being emphasized, the opposing happens with low contrast with it appearing less saturated so it creates quite a depressing tone.
Using both contrasts would help me create certain moods more effectively and so I will likely use these in my film.
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