Lighting

 Welcome back bloggers! Today we are going to be discussing one of the several key components of our film...Lighting. As you will for sure see, lighting plays such an important role in our opener, Forsaken, as it helps to capture the overall atmosphere that we are trying to portray. Especially with being in settings such as the arcade, there is a lot of crucial lighting that helps with creating such a vibrant atmosphere. I can't wait to go in-depth on the specifics of lighting throughout our project and even a projection of how it could be if we had a greater budget. 

We are in the process of beginning our reshoots for our film and it is really crucial for us to focus more on portraying the greatness of our film and enhancing previous scenes. With lots of changes to come in the characters and the realism of our film, lighting is going to be a very important aspect. With that being said I would like to further talk about the lighting choices that we are using throughout several settings. 

In the film opener, we will be incorporating artificial lighting to establish a radiant and familiar setting within the mall. We see that this specific lighting helps us to visualize the mall in such an amazing way especially, within the arcade. Throughout the mall, this type of lighting brings in so many important visualizations and helps to create the overall atmosphere and mood between all different activities and interactions. We see that the glow from the mall's artificial lighting creates a warm and welcoming feeling, leading to a refreshing mood. Furthermore, we will see that the scene does start outside the mall which is where we see the natural type of lighting, enhancing the focus on the outdoor surroundings. Both artificial and natural lighting have made this film become even more greater than we could have imagined it is actually just amazing of how it all comes together!

In addition, we utilize low-key lighting in one of our very important scenes in Kendrick's bedroom and that really just sets the saddening mood that we are going for when he wakes up from his dream. We also utilized fill lighting and the combination of both of them creates such an isolated environment to really highlight the emotional challenges that he is going through as compared to how he felt in his dream. As we can see, lighting not only helps the scenes look better but it actually helps in portraying and telling the whole narrative in such an improved way. 

Lastly, regarding our equipment, we never utilized major film equipment since it would be quite difficult to set it up and to being it around the mall. As a team, to maximize these scenes, we decided utilizing a phone is perfect so we can capture these different scenes both easily and efficiently as we take a portable approach. Luckily, since the mall already has great artificial lighting, everything worked out greatly with no additional lighting sources needed. This creates such a smooth and flexible environment for our filming process and still captures the atmosphere on point for our film. 

Alright, that is a wrap for today bloggers, thank you for joining us as we talk more about lighting! We will see you guys next time for more important updates!