The Different Lighting we used

Lighting

The different ways we used lighting:

In the start of our film intro the only scenes you see are the one of our charter Adam going through the mental breakdown. We wanted this to have a sort of nightmare feel to it so you used very low key lighting. This makes everything in these shots more harder to recognise and gives it an aspect of suspense as you cant really tell who or what is in the shadows.

When it comes to the shots that involve our character Luke waking up in his bedroom we wanted their to still be low key lighting but not as extreme as the shots before. We wanted this to convey a feeling of the nightmare being over and the peace and calm of morning beginning to arise, however we didn't allow to much high key lighting into the shot to show that everything is still not perfect.

In the shots in the kitchen with the characters Luke and Freddy we allowed a lot more high key lighting into the shot to represent the bond of friendship between these two characters  This high key lighting also allowed us to create a lot of contrast with the next shot of the character Adam sitting in the leather chair. With these shots of Adam we used low key lighting and the only source of light being from a lamp above him. Having the source of light so high created longer shadows giving the whole shot a menacing look. The constant switching between the kitchen and the leather chair further emphasis this good and evil feel to these shots. 

The last bit of lighting we used in our film intro was with Adam turning of his lamp, leaving the whole room in darkness. We wanted this to bridge the gap between the two sides of Adams life, with the lamp being on representing Adams friendly, concerned side however when the lamp turns off it reveal his evil, darker side.