How we created the lighting effects

How we created the lighting effects

Adams mental scene:

The darkness in this scene effectively reveals Adam as the protagonist. The way we created this lighting was by blocking out the windows with curtains and duck tape. This allowed us to trap most of the outside light, only letting in enough for the characters to be just recognisable through the camera lens. 

In editing we added a brightness effect to the footage. We then went into the brightness settings and turned the brightness down by 10% because we felt that the footage was still slightly too bright. We then added a hue/saturation effect to the footage in this scene and then under the hue/saturation settings we boosted the saturation so that even through the darkness the audience could still recognise the colours.

Luke waking up in the bedroom:

The still low key lighting and blue tint gave off connotations of suspicion and uncertainty, but not as extreme as the shots in Adams mental breakdown. The way we created the look of early morning was to remotely open the curtains to bring in only a small bit of slight. This created long shadows in the room as if the sun was still low in the sky.

We then realised the footage was quite too bright and didn't fit the conventions of an action/thriller movie well enough so we done some research into action/thriller films and found that a blue tint is quite commonly used. To create this blue tint we went into Premier Pro's video editing options and added a tint to the footage in this scene. We then went into the tint options and changed the tint colour to blue and we also turned the opacity of the tint down to 35% so the blue didn't overpower the shot.  

In the kitchen with Luke and Freddy:

The high key lighting in this shot shows that the characters are safe in the presence of each other. The way we created this high key lighting was by opening up the blinds so that most of the light outside came in. Due to the blinds being made out of wood it also filled the kitchen with a slight orange light which we found gave the footage a calming feel to it.