Research: Lighting and colour (Mise en scene) Miss B

Lighting 

Lighting helps to convey mood and atmosphere. It can be used to guide the audiences attention to a particular object, person, emotion or gesture. Lighting is significantly important in films as it could mirror the characters thoughts and emotions. The use of light can influence the meaning of a shot.

Angles of lighting 

• Under lighting comes from below the person. This tends to have a disorting effect on the character.

• Top lighting comes from the above, highlighting the features of the character and creates a glamorous look. 

• Back lighting source is behide the person, sihouttes are created.

Types of lighting 

• Low-key the lighting is dark with small areas of light, which also creates shadows. Sub-genres of thrillers that may us low-key lighting include; action and psychological.

• High-key the lighting appears more natural and realistic to our eyes. Sub-genres of thrillers that may use high-key lightings include the following; crime, action and sci-fi.

 Colour in scenes

Colour in scenes have different connotations to them and give different interpretations of the scene.

 
 In the opening scene of the moon and the gutter we see colours such as red in the begining which may be used for love, romanace or death. The use of the colour white of females dress may show her innocence and represent purity. However, we start to see the use of blue and the scences get darker and darker. Blue may represent feeling cold or fear. On the other hand low-key lighting has been used. Most parts had dark scenes with areas of ligh which created shadows and created fear for the audience. The use of lighting has created fear,mystery. At the end of the scene we see the colour red again but this time its blood and we can infer that the colour used in the first scene actually represented danger and death.