Lighting in our production

This is an example of the different types of lighting we will be using in our production. The bottom left of the montage shows the idea that we are trying to portray. The protagonist has his head bowed with a hat on, hiding his face. The right of the montage shows the street lamps lighting the area surrounding the protagonist. The middle image is the high angle lighting effect that we will try and attain. We will use it to make the shadow of the character stretch out in front of him to give a sense of mystery.

The lighting in the car will be fairly bright so we can see the expression of the protagonist. We also need to be able to see the action inside the car. We are going o achieve this through the use of exterior lighting that we have attached to a building next to the car. The lighting for our thriller will be used to create an eerie effect. This is because of our need to present the film using of Film Noir. We wanted however, to avoid using black and white to present the film. This we will get around by auto-adjusting the brightness in iMovie.

These examples of lighting put emphasis on the main protagonists face. They avoid capturing focus on much else in the framing of the shots. We will use this to illustrate the protagonists expression in the strangulation sequence.