Lighting and Film Technique

Lighting is one of the most important elements in a film. When working with lighting the director's main intention is to give and effect through lighting in order to bring a specific meaning to the audience.

The different kinds of lighting setup are:

• Three point lighting- This technique consists in as KEY LIGHT , a FILL LIGHT and a BACKLIGHT. The key light aims directly at the subject highlighting his importance , and is usually lighter than the two others. The fill light usually aims opposite the key light in order to cut down shadows created by the key light. And lastly the backlight shines behind the subject in order to separate him from the background, enhancing the depth of shot.

• High Key Lighting- High key lighting is when the producers use a high proportion of FILL LIGHT to KEY LIGHT. This is usually used in comedies or musicals to enhance a sense of liveness or dramas to emphasise the intensity of the situation.

• Low Key Lighting- The low key lighting is more shadowy ,because of the low angle of the key light. This kind of lighting has become a convention for thriller, mystery and horrors.
  
  
  
• Back lighting- Back lighting is the process of illuminating the subject from the back, which means the lighting object and the viewer face each other with the subject in between. This creates a glowing effect on the edges of the subject, while other areas are darker. The back light can be natural or artificial light.
  
  
• Top lighting- This is when the upper areas of a subject are lit by a source generating from

         above it.

• Under lighting- This is the approach of lighting a subject
  from a point below the subjects in the scene. This is used to    create a spooky effect.

First attempt

These are a few images of getting the protagonist ready for filming:

The main idea was to get her to look bruised and hurt as she is trying to escape from the unknown threat.

Once everything was done that's our character's final look:

Lara was the one filming ,Ellie took care of the makeup and also helped with filming and I was acting.

However we ended up not filming because we were missing the memory card of the camera. We managed to find another memory card but it did not work. We left and went back another day and managed to finish with the filming.

Group decisions

Actions to be agreed on:
- We think that it s neccesary to have more meetings based around shooting in order to give all group members a clearer understanding of what we are doing. On Friday the 4th filming shoot take place at kent house station. Meeting at about 4:00 so that its slightly dark.

- We also need to decide on the music used within the short clip, as well as any added sound affects, all group members should begin to research pieces of music and affects that could be used in order to have a clearer understanding of what is already avaliable.

Motions taken or rejected:
- As a group we have decided that each of the shots should be very slightly longer, to both create tension as well as enable our short clip to meet the required length of two minuites. We have agreed to film the opening scene on Friday the 6th of January at Kent house station at 4:00.

Next steps:
- Steps should be followed as shown on the shoting schedule, all filming should be complete by Friday the 6th in order to enable us to be ready to edit the folloing week. Camera person will be Lara and Ellie. The director to the short clip will be Lara, Ellie will be doing makeup and special affects on Rediola, who is acting within the short clip. 

Group timetable

Thriller opening location

After looking at a few options, we picked this one as the most suitable location for our thriller opening. The whole setting looks a bit scary , from the mud puddles on the ground ,the way the houses are almost hidden behind huge trees and also the shadows the trees create giving the effect of that scary uncomfortable environment. The lamps are a positive as apart from being an important part of the shoot they enable us good lighting.

1 min re-shoot

A re-shoot of the opening scene from the famous Thriller Film "Misery". We tried to bring a similar scene using our own tools and one of the classes at Harris Academy Bromley as our location. As for the sound we managed to take the sound of the actual footage and adapt it to our video through editing. The camera angles are very similar, almost identical to the original opening as well as our character's actions and movements.





                           This is the original scene for our retake.

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