My project

For my project, I chose to look into if and how lighting can effect an audiences perception of an atmosphere, character and overall scene in film.
The reason I chose to look at lighting is because it's not something I prioritise when I go out and shoot a film, but I know I should as it can be a very important and useful tool.
I am hoping that after finishing this project, I will come to really understand and appreciate the importance and impact lighting can have and learn to incorporate lighting techniques and set-ups, that are developed to help actually aid the narrative, in my own films. I also hope that this opportunity will help me think about and exectute the lighting on a shoot as if it were second nature.
I chose to look at lighting within film noir and german expressionist films because they have a very ballsy way of using light; there's nothing really subtle about the way they use light. It's very harsh and definitive. I love the way the light is used to help tell the story and communicate information rather than just being used to make a character look young or attractive, as we see in a lot of films these days.
I wanted to explore this sort of lighting because I think it can be a very useful tool when making films, and I want to get a grasp on how you can actually use it in more of a productive way than just using it so your footage isn't under exposed and so your actors 'look nice'.

My initial ideas were to shoot a scene three different  times using three different lighting set ups. I also wanted to look into using and experimenting with filters, but was advised to limit my project to just using lighting at this stage, which I definitely think was the right call.