Lighting

When we are filming the outside scene, we will use no lights, just the normal sunlight. This is to create a real effect and to show that it is a wintery day, fairly dark and grey.

Inside the house we will use the living room light with the sunlight coming through the window and door. This is used because a good effect of back lighting is created by the light through the door showing the mysteriousness of Barry as he enters his vision. It also creates a yellowy/straw effect to show that he is out of the cold and into the warm, as I mentioned in another section. The technical term for this is low key lighting.

As the vision kicks in, we used an orange and red bulb together from different angles to create a fire look. We turned the living room light off and put covers over the windows as you can see in the picture. This picture is from the canted angle shot of the wall. As you can see, the chair is there to create the shadow and the vase is also there to create a wobbly effect. At this point the lights were moved up and down to create a moving shadow for a creepy feel.

Another part of lighting that is worth a mention is as Barry walks up to the tv. His body blocks the light as it is pointing towards him from the TV. This was used to create a really good effect in my opinion. As he walks towards the TV his shadow on the wall gets bigger, and as he blocks more light, the room gets darker. This is used to shot that Barry is getting deeper and deeper into the vision, and that darkness is coming over him.

All of the red lighting used is under lighting. This is because it was supposed to look like a fire, and generally, fire comes from below you, not above you. Also it is a typical type of lighting for scary scenes. It shows the characters face as shadowy and you cannot see his full facial expression.