Lighting Decisions - Laura

• When Sam is with his friends they will be outside. This means it will be hard to control the lighting so we have decided to use natural light. This will depend on the weather as we are hoping to have high key lighting for this scene as we are showing a time where Sam is having fun with his friends, so the lighting needs to reflect a positive, happy feeling. If it is a dull day weatherwise though this could also work, as the low key lighting can allow the audience to foreshadow that something bad will happen.  
• In the car scene and when he goes home there will be low key lighting. We will achieve this by using just the 'back' light in terms of the 3 point lighting technique. This will contrast with the earlier high key lighting when he is with his friends in order to create different connotatios. Low key lighting can be used to reflect sadness, therefore in our film it will represent the loneliness and isolation he feels in this situation.
• We will use this same contrast in lighting in the flashbacks too. The flashbacks will progress chronologically in terms of their relationship. The ones he thinks about later on in the film, represent later on in the relationship, which is the point when she starts to abuse him. We will use low key lighting for these as it is reflecting a low point in his life, whereas the flashbacks at the beginning of their relationship when they are happy we will use high key lighting as it is a high point in their relationship. This contrast will also allow the audience to question how it all went so wrong for them.
• When filming we used a light with an umbrella to reflect. We found this did not work very well as it was really bright, making the house look an unnatural colour. We then went for a make-shift approach where we used our own black umbrella instead of the white one, and had one of the members of our group holding it up to the light when filming. This worked for one of the shots, however in the end we decided it would work best to use as much natural light as we could, as well as the artificial light already in the house, selecting parts of the house where the lighting worked best.
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