Lighting Research

"Lighting is one of the most important aspects of motion pictures. It sets the tone of a film while giving two dimensional images the feeling of three dimensional life."

We decided that we needed to research lighting for our horror film as we felt that it was a very important aspect in terms of a visual portrayal to the audience. Certain types of lighting can set the tone for a film and create a mood or specific atmosphere. As we are creating a horror film we needed to create shadows and dark patches of light, even darkness would be an acceptable lighting for our genre of film. However, we have to be careful that it's not so dark that the audience can see what's going on or grasp the concept of our film.

Still from 'Friday the 13th'

Normally horror films don't tend to use artificial lighting in their filming. The only light within these types of films are often natural such as the moonlight. This creates a spooky and eerie atmosphere. Darkness is such an iconic element of the horror genre as a lot of people are scared of the dark, not necessarily of darkness itself but whatever may be lurking in its shadows.