One of the main factors in able to achieve great effects within a horror movie is to get the lighting perfect! If the lighting is to bright the tension and suspense atmosphere pretty much disappears, but those are the emotions you want the audience to feel especially in this type of genre.
With a small budget, if the other things don’t go as planned, at least the lighting could help improve the overall effect which is portrayed to the audience, enabling a more successful trailer to be brought upon the audience, appealing them more to the movie.
One of the most common ideas which come to mind thinking about a horror movie is shooting at night, but problem... the lighting will be of really bad quality which will be captured on the camera and hardly anything will be seen. The key aspect is to raise enigma and trigger the audience’s mind, to affect them mentally, if everything seems normal the full effect will not be received and the aim of our movie will not be fulfilled.
Under lighting, back lighting and low key lighting are the most common lighting techniques used within horror movies and trailers.
Under lighting: comes from below the subject giving off a scary look and enhances shadows of the subject’s features.
Back lighting: comes from behind the subject and creates a silhouette around them. This helps to keep their identity a mystery and can also create suspense as to who this person can be which is why it works so well within the horror genre.
Low key lighting: uses key and back lights to create dramatic shadows. The reason too why this is highly used within the horror genre and it makes it seem as if something is always following the protagonist and make the shadows seem sinister and over powering upon the characters.
During the equilibrium, high key lighting may be used in order to portray normality during the dis-equilibrium the lighting will move towards low key lighting to darken the shots and then back to high key lighting to show the new equilibrium and either restore peace or show the inevitable end of the character/s.
With a small budget, if the other things don’t go as planned, at least the lighting could help improve the overall effect which is portrayed to the audience, enabling a more successful trailer to be brought upon the audience, appealing them more to the movie.
One of the most common ideas which come to mind thinking about a horror movie is shooting at night, but problem... the lighting will be of really bad quality which will be captured on the camera and hardly anything will be seen. The key aspect is to raise enigma and trigger the audience’s mind, to affect them mentally, if everything seems normal the full effect will not be received and the aim of our movie will not be fulfilled.
Under lighting, back lighting and low key lighting are the most common lighting techniques used within horror movies and trailers.
Under lighting: comes from below the subject giving off a scary look and enhances shadows of the subject’s features.
Back lighting: comes from behind the subject and creates a silhouette around them. This helps to keep their identity a mystery and can also create suspense as to who this person can be which is why it works so well within the horror genre.
Low key lighting: uses key and back lights to create dramatic shadows. The reason too why this is highly used within the horror genre and it makes it seem as if something is always following the protagonist and make the shadows seem sinister and over powering upon the characters.
During the equilibrium, high key lighting may be used in order to portray normality during the dis-equilibrium the lighting will move towards low key lighting to darken the shots and then back to high key lighting to show the new equilibrium and either restore peace or show the inevitable end of the character/s.
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