Sunday, 30 November 2008

Lighting and Effects From One Short Extract

...GOTHIKA...

The lighting that had been used in this short clip from Gothika is Low Key lighting you can see this from the genre of the film telling the audience that it is a Horror movie. A part of the film shows the main actress driving up in her car whilst its raining in the dark she has a car crash and walks out to see a girl standing there, when she sees this girl she is shown to have spotlights on her not showing her identity but you can see her body image making it clear what she is wearing and her gender.

When the camera moves onto the female who is standing in the rain back lighting is shown from the car coming towards her this gives it more of a dramatic effect creating shadows. Flashing lights have been used to make the actors facial expressions seem stronger which also shwo the emotion in them, the car spinning also shows a lighting effect beeing used with the flashing lights being used at the same time making the film seem scary, and top lighting has been used on the actors when they are walking you can see the shadow on their heads again this links back to the genre of the movie.

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