Lighting

Lighting in films are used to portray themes and even sometimes add to a story or depth to characters. Lighting can even help foreshadow events as well as hide certiain things.

To create the desired lighting affect there are 3 different types of light used :

Key Light - Main Light on a subject, although it will not be the brightest

Fill Light - Softens the hard edges of the key and balances the light 

Back Light - Light behind a subject creating seperation from the background 

These lights can be used to create these various light effects, for example, 'Lowkey Lighting',Creating only using the Key and Back Lights

In this scene the bright lights coming from behind blurs the creatures, keeping their appearance a mystery

The light is coming from in front of the objects this inturn casting shadowy, silhouette-esque figures in front of a gloomy, foggy looking light . The lighting used gives an air of mystery as no real details can be made out  and the black out objects seem to be like tomb stones, gving a sense horror and the rail way tracks give of a sense as if the the character in the middle is on a journey. The only other light source in the photo is the lamp

The red lighting makes the sweat and oil on the actors face pop, creating more texture.

In this image they are using a Lowkey Lighting technique. Despite the absence of colour in the scene there is still alot of detail in the image. And this lighting technique can put across a specific theme with the film.



This image the only light source is coming through a slither and the light has black out the side of the characters face. This makes the characters facial expressions and features, this makes it unclear to the audience what the character is thinking or his intentions, the only thing that can be derived from this image is where the character is looking.



In this image the characters face has light on only one side. This use of lighting implies that something is being hidden about the true nature/intentions of the characters.



In this image there is almost no light. This implys that something very sinister is happening especially when the little light that is in the seen is one the characters face, showing the characters facial expression which seems to be one of anger or sorrow