Lighting

As a group, we decided that we needed to experiment with lighting to create an atmosphere, within our two minute opening sequence, appropriate to our film genre, slasher. We unanimously agreed we needed a dark and gloomy setting in order to instill fear within the audience and to make the sequence look as genuine as possible, by using some of the typical conventions of horror/slasher genres. Lighting is the deliberate application of light to achieve some aesthetic or practical effect. Lighting includes use of both artificial light sources such as lamps and natural illumination of interiors from daylight.

Here are some examples of of the effect lighting can have on some images: