Planning: Lighting In Our Short Film

Concerning the lighting use within our short film itself, we are featuring scenes both outside and inside, one with the character cycling to the house of the sleepover, and inside the house of the sleepover. Therefore we will be accessing both sources of light including artificial and natural. We will use numerous sources of artificial lighting when shooting interior shot's depending on the scene itself, if we are filming in a dark room. The shot's we will be filming in broad daylight will use light in our environment so it is natural.

Due to the problems I faced in my AS media project, we avoided filming after sunset because of the risk of our footage appearing underexposed, and the footage was very poor lowing my grade because of it. However, with the new knowledge of Premiere Pro, we can film in the day and adapt the footage with colour corrections to match the time of day. The footage that we capture inside use both artificial and ambient source of lighting depending on the time of day we film. The light will be filtered from windows during the day and near to the evening we will use artificial lighting of lamps, bulbs, candles etc.

Lighting is also very important in our trailer as we will use it as a key source of creating atmosphere and tension through the scenes, such as when the stalker will go into the house to attack the teenagers. This will be effective as light can be utilised to represent different emotions therefore linking well with what we want to achieve in individual scenes, relating to the use of pathetic fallacy. In addition, we will be including both high and key lighting to represent mood's of characters and the atmosphere being developed in a scene. However, due to the lack of budgeting we have we don't have expensive studio lighting. This may create some challenges when we want to capture of evening scenes due to the risk of underexposing which I mentioned previously.