Lighting and Colour

For our lighting and colour we will be using mainly sunlight as our key lighting. This is because sunlight appears natural to the audience making the film appear more realistic. Also as none of our filming is in the night or indoors we only need sunlight as our key lighting. However, for certain shots we will be using additional lighting such as torches or lamps to create a better effect by increasing the lighting on a particular object or character. This will make the character appear more important resulting in the audience focusing on them more. In the shot where the antagonist's shadow is seen to stab the victim multiple times, we will be using the car headlights to increase the definition of the shadow. The advantage of car headlights compared to torches is that it looks less artificial to the audience as the car headlights had already been seen earlier in the films. This will be better in terms of continuity and will produce a better finish as it will involve the audience more by making the film more realistic.

In terms of colour I want to exaggerate the red and black. Black is associated with darkness and the night, which people are generally scared of. Red is connoted with blood and therefore danger, which causes the audience to link a character in red or an object in red with danger. This effect will be created primarily by using red and black clothing as well as red and black props. Filters could also be used to create this effect but I do not feel that they are necessary as I can create the effect by using the right colours in clothing and props.