Lighting

 

The lighting in our film did not vary too much. The majority of our scenes were filmed inside the library so the lighting was the same. With those scenes, we wanted to resemble the harsh, dim lighting that you would see from inside a police department. The lighting may give off a suspenseful, uneasy feeling to the audience because there is a big chance that the murderer is sitting right in that seat. In the room, in the library, we turned all the lights off and relied on the light from the library to provide light for this scene. When editing we kept the lighting the same because we felt like it worked well with what we wanted to create. In the first scene of our movie, we wanted to create a very dark atmosphere, so we filmed at night. We decided not to utilize any additional lighting tools such as flashlights or ring lights because we wanted it to be dark so it is mysterious. The only lights come from the car, so it draws the attention of our audience to the car. The rest of the movie was filmed during the day, so this was the darkest scene. In the second shot, we utilized a drone in the daytime to film Jacob's character walking into the police department. We used natural light to make this scene seem very light in comparison to the dark scene you had just seen before that. The light from this scene almost gives the audience a sense of optimism before learning about the murder. There was no need to add artificial light to this scene because we simply used the sun. This is considered the brightest scene in the film because of the use of natural light. To capture the mugshots, we kept the lights off in the room, but we used a flash on a camera to resemble the bright flash that is normally used when taking a mugshot. We created harsh lighting in the photos through the use of flash. We ended up adjusting the lighting in post-production to sharpen the images.