Lighting

     In reading chapter 5 of moving pictures I was able to find a deeper understanding of cinematography and how lighting plays a role in it. Lighting can speak without words. We see it all the time in movies, but don't notice it. When you're watching a movie and you see dark and gloomy lighting, you feel something mysterious and it makes you anxious. When you see bright lighting filled with colors, you are going to expect a more joyful scene.  For example you can use the movie The Batman. The whole movie is shot in a dark lighting. The lighting sets the mood for the rest of the movie. The Batman is a mysterious and gloomy movie that is filmed in darker lighting. This is also done in most scary movies. If you watch movies light The Conjuring or Insidious, you will notice that before a jump scare the lighting is very dim. This draws the audience in and give it more of an effect on the scare. 

    Film makers have two different choices they can make when doing the lighting for their movie. They could use natural lighting, like the sun or the moon. They could also use artificial lighting. This can be LED's, fluorescent lights, or many other forms of technology. Whatever source of lighting you use will expose a shot in a different way. The sun's lighting will not be the same and using LED's. This lighting can affect how much of the frame you want to be in focus and how it will look in the final image. 

    Film makers also use tricks to fool the viewer. They will do things like put a lamp next to an actor when they are using artificial lighting. This makes the viewer think that the lighting must be coming from the lamp, but it is not. This trick is called motivating the light source. Usually the lamp that is used is just a prop. It has no effect other than that. In conclusion this chapter taught me a lot about how much goes in to every scene and what we don't see as a viewer.