Thursday 23 February 2017

Lighting & Sound Decisions

Lighting


  • Lighting will play an incredibly important role in our short film. This is typical of a horror as lighting has to be used in particular ways to generate moods and atmospheres and also to create a certain light on our actors. 


  • During our night time interior shots of Michael, we will have a dimly lit lamp to just make Michaels face glow, creating a vignette around the frame, making the scene more dark and eerie, therefore applying the conventions that are needed in order to produce a successful horror short film. 


  • To create a dark room we will use our LED light with its orange filter. This will help reinforce natural lighting, making the shot feel more realistic, generating realism for our spectators. 


  • During our morning interior shots, we will use our umbrella lights which will help us direct certain light into the correct areas. We will have tests shots to see which direction looks most naturalistic. 
  • When shooting our final sleep walking incident outside at night time, we will use just one LED light and also our car head lights to reinforce the shock of when Micheal is seen walking down the road. 


Sound

  • Throughout our short film, our dialogue will be fully diegetic within the story world. There are no flash backs included in our narrative. We will use certain websites such as Youtube or Incomptech to research and find the correct sound tracks. 
  • However, we are going to create some foley sound effects, for example, during Michaels second sleep walking incident he repeatedly hits his head against his bedroom door (our actor will not actually do this action) but we will re-create a thumping sound effect to make this action more realistic, generating emotions of shock and distress for the young teenage boy. 

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