Lighting

The way we use lighting in our opening scene will have significant effects on the atmosphere in which we wish to create. Generally, the entire opening scene will be filmed outside therefore we will be using naturalistic lighting. However we still need to take into account: hard, soft, spot, back lighting as well as what time of day we wish to film at.

Soft lighting will be important in our opening scene as it allows the characters facial expressions to be clearly seen. This will important when filming either the detective and his reactions and feelings to have these visions of his daughter or showing his emotions when he is at her grave. Soft lighting could also be used when filming the detectives daughter in the forest, the soft lighthing will allow us to clearly portray to the audience how scared, sad and frightened she is.


Hard lighting in our opening scene will be important, especially in the forest scene because (as demonstrated in the image to the left) it doesn't show to audience clearly what is going on in the shot as they are unable to visibly see specific details; this depicts an unknowing and mysterious atmosphere. Therefore in the forest scene when the daughter seems to be running away, the combination of hard lighting and an unfocused camera shot will make the audience feel confused and slightly on edge therefore building up suspense and tension.


Naturalistic lighting, as shown in the forest image, requires no editing and therefore it, as the name suggests, its natural. It will also give our opening a more believable atmosphere which the audience can relate to. However we will have decided on the time of day, either in the morning, afternoon or night as each will give a different atmosphere. If we film the forest scene while the sun is starting to set it will create a eerie tone to the play which would match the action of the daughter running.