Lighting and more

Lighting. Lighting is so important to give visual effects, and many times it gives a greater ambiance to the movie than consciously known. It helps to give the ambience to the film, and to give character and mystery. Also, it helps to develop possible lighting motifs that can be used to subconsciously tell the audience when something scary is coming, which creates suspense. Color scheme of certain costumes can be important, as well, to the subconscious development that the audience has of the character.

There are so many different types of lighting that I can use, such as, noir lighting, dark and light lighting, harsh lighting. These types of lighting give that harsh vibe to the film, making it unflattering and appropriate to use to get the audience member ready to be scared, and because it's so harsh they'll associate that with scary occurrences in the movie, or in my case film opening.  By tricking the filming device there's a way to tell it how much light to take in, which is perfect for that dark ominous feel. Also, I'm learning about flags and cookies, flags are a way to manipulate how much light you're getting in certain places, and cookies are cutouts that are used to create shadows to reveal certain things and keep others hidden. Mystery is such a big part of horror movies and this helps me to figure out how to add the mystery through lighting.

Lighting or rather the absence of it can be very useful as well. The absence of light also helps to add that mystery, also it heightens sound. Heightened sound and lack of visuals help to increase the creepiness of the moment. After finding out about this, I now know to use dark lighting to create the ominous feel I'm looking for.

As for costumes, for Noah I was thinking just casual clothes, nothing special. I want people to know that he's an everyday person, and there's nothing different about him. For, Kane, I was thinking dark clothing with very minimal color scheme. Black, dark blue, dark red and grey are the main colors I'm thinking. At the beginning, definitely more of the blues and greys to show how Kane is very in between good and evil, and as time goes on reds and black to show the darkness growing in Kane.

Citations: 
O'Rourke, T. (2012). Horror Film Lighting on a Budget. Retrieved from https://www.videomaker.com/article/c13/15436-horror-film-lighting-on-a-budget