Lighting

One thing I am worried about is the lighting. Lighting is something that is fundamental to all type of film. Not only is lighting important for for visibility, but it can also be used as an artistic tool. Lighting can be the most artistic portion of a film because there are no hard and fast rules, only guidelines. That is why I am scared to mess up on the lighting because not only can it make your film unprofessional but it can also confuse the audience. For example if you put low key lighting in a scene that requires high key lighting, it can mess up the message which you are trying to portray in your film. Not only lighting, but the color of the light is very important too. For example if you want to portray love or passion, then red lighting should be used so the audience can clearly understand what you are trying to represent.

In our film opening we want too use several different types of lighting. In one scene where the mom poisons her son we want their to be high key lighting so that the audience thinks that nothing bad is going to happen but then their is a big twist. In the scene where our character is in the woods we want to use low key lighting in order to build suspense. And for our scenes that take place inside a house we want to use three key lighting so it looks as professional as possible. The only problem is that we do not know how to create these lighting's , but I looked up an article called Lighting 101: A Quick Guide for Lighting Film. This article teaches us how to employ lighting designs and shows us new lighting that I have never seen before which we can use for our movie opening. 

Most of our film takes place outdoors, but we can not move the sun so I was wondering how we would make the lighting look good even though we are outside. I researched and found an article called : Tips to make your exterior lighting shine. The article showed me several ways how I can create my own lighting, such as using modifiers to shape light. Using these tips we should be good to film outside and create the lighting we want. Another problem that I have not found the solution to is about one of our scenes which requires a room full of guns. In this scene Our main character robs a gun store but gets stopped quickly. I researched but found nothing on how to create a gun room. We might have to just go to an actual gun shop and beg the workers to let us use it! 

Bibliography:
Hardy, R. (2014, October 28). Here Are a Few Simple Tips to Make Your Exterior Lighting Shine. Retrieved March 13, 2018, from https://nofilmschool.com/2013/11/simple-tips-daytime-exterior-shine
    
Lighting 101: A Quick Guide for Lighting Film. (2016, September 13). Retrieved March 13, 2018, from https://www.premiumbeat.com/blog/basic-light-placements/

Cinematography. (n.d.). Retrieved March 13, 2018, from http://www.masteringfilm.com/set-lighting-fundamentals/