Lighting Alteration

Here is our original first draft of our Supernatural Horror Film Opening:

After receiving feedback from peers and teachers, we noticed that most of the feedback suggested the same thing. The lighting was too bright. As we couldn't refilm out footage, we decided to play around with the clips on Final Cut Pro in order to darken them up a little to fit the genre better.

We took our already edited footage and selected an individual clip. The first thing we did was desaturate the clips. This made the footage less colourful and more dull. From our research we noticed that most horror films are not brightly coloured and exciting. I then did this for all of the clips within our opening.

Following this, I felt the need to darken the clip itself as opposed with playing around with the colour intensity. This meant that I was able to change the contrast of the shadows, mid-tones and highlights to fit the contrast that I want to achieve. The main area I had to darken was the highlights due to the fact that our clips had many very bright points within the sequence. 

 

Here is the final edit with all of the lighting changes:

Practical- lighting

For the opening titles we want the credits to be written on top of images of the scary drawings & demonic symbols, to make this scarier I played around with lighting to highlight aspects of the drawings

To do this I used a torch & a dark room

Camera Angle Research

We needed to experiment with many different camera angles in order to gain a wide range of knowledge about how to construct out opening sequence to a film. Therefore we experimented with lighting and the shots we had learnt in class.

Back Lighting

 

Close Up 

 

 Extreme Close Up

 

 High Angle Shot

 

High Key Lighting 

 

 This is how we constructed our High Key Lighting shot

 

Under Lighting

 

How we constructed our Under Lighting Shot

 

 Long Shot

 

 Low Angle Shot

 

Low Key Lighting 

 

 Mid Shot

 

 Over The Shoulder Shot

 

 Point Of View Shot

 

 Top Lighting