Lighting

I was set the task of looking at different lighting ideas to use when filming, I have suggested the following techniques:

For the lighting, I thought that we could use car headlights to light the shot up as it's effective when it comes to the situation as the lights can create a type of spotlight and there are a couple of varieties to the brightness of the light. An advantage to using a car as the light source is that the car can be included in the shot to add to the atmosphere or it can be out of the shot to add some mystery to where this light is coming from.

The lights that are already in the barn that we're using can be used as a visible source to create a sense of artificial lighting. We can add more light to the scene but it will be difficult as if we had a light source that's off the shot then it would create shadows in unwanted places, especially if its behind the camera.

Another light source we can use are torches which can give the audience a sense of mystery and it can also be used so it's eerie if it is used slowly as if it is searching for something in the shot, this can reveal specific items to give the audience ideas to what is coming later in the plot.

When filming we could emphasise the characters in the scene by using the backlight in a specific way, for example the backlight could be low and the character could be lit so they're brighter than the background to make them stand out in the shot. Another way to emphasise certain aspects of the sequence is to use the lighting as uplights so they make the sequence more creepy.